music REVIEW: Gallows – Death Is Birth EP
Gallows have recorded an EP with new frontman Wade MacNeil, Luke Morton gives it a spin to see if he can pull it off.
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music REVIEW: Whitemare – Snider
OneMetal’s Rob McAuslan gets an earful of Brighton scumbags Whitemare’s first full album.
music REVIEW: Sarabante – Remnants
Whereas a lot of the crust bands around Athens seem to be around for a year, releasing demos or EPs that sound similar to Tragedy or Amebix before parting ways, Sarabante are back after a hiatus from the stage.
book REVIEW: WorldWide Gothic by Natasha Scharf
Pete Allison dons his black PVC and returns to gothic roots with a review of Natasha Scharf’s exploration of how Goth music has evolved from it’s post-punk roots in World Wide Gothic.
music NEWS: OneMetal’s Summer Anthems
Ryan Neal takes a look at the tunes that will be infecting the team’s assorted music-playing devices if the sun makes its regularly-threatened appearance during the so-called ‘summer’ months.
music ARTICLE: Yodel Rock – The Top Artists You’ve Never Heard
What on earth is yodel rock? And why on earth should you be listening to it? Gerald Wiley takes you through the cornerstone sextet of a specific, yet toe-tappingly infectious, musical genre…
music ARTICLE: OneMetal Goes to Download – Saturday
Our reports from the hallowed grounds of Donington continue with Mike Perry and Zakk Appleyard’s accounts of Day 2 of Dowload 2011.
music LIVE REVIEW: Brumstock Underground Rock-Metal Festival 2011: Day One
With his twin loves of hearing new metal bands and frugality, how could Phil Whitehouse resist the 2011 edition of Birmingham’s free-entry, charity-sponsoring unsigned rock and metal festival, Brumstock?
music LIVE REVIEW: Soilent Green, Dripback and Day Of The Crow @ Eddies in Birmingham – 15/05/11
Phil Whitehouse headed to Eddies in Birmingham to catch the last date of Louisiana grind/sludge merchants Soilent Green’s first UK tour in 11 years. Was it worth the wait?
music REVIEW: Cyvoid – Cyvoid
A “hybrid warp metal” record that fuses sci-fi with thrash, punk and sludge? Don’t mind if I do, says Mike Perry…
film REVIEW: Pink Cinema – Tsumugi
A forbidden relationship between teenage Tsumugi (Sora Aoi) and her teacher can’t possibly end well, can it? Gerald Wiley takes a wild trip into troubled Japanese youth in the first of a series of reviews celebrating Pink Cinema…
music REVIEW: Skindred – Union Black
Chris Ward lets his dreadlocks down and checks out UK ragga/metal quartet Skindred’s latest album, ‘Union Black’.
music REVIEW: Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent
London’s punk pioneers hit us with their latest slab of anarchy back in September last year. OneMetal’s Rob McAuslan finally pulls himself out from under its weight of expectation to tell us what he thinks of it.
music REVIEW: Kvelertak – Kvelertak
Luke Morton checks out the debut self-titled album by Norwegian purveyors of punked-up black metal, Kvelertak.
music REVIEW: New York Dolls – Dancing Backward In High Heels
Luke Morton investigates one of the 70s punk movement’s big names with New York Dolls’ new album, ‘Dancing Backward In High Heels’.
music REVIEW: Phobia – Unrelenting
17 concise tracks, 15 frantic minutes, Orange County grinders Phobia are not giving up now. Bish, bash, bosh.
music REVIEW: Beans On Toast – Writing On The Wall
Ryan Neal makes the case for a new genre – ‘Extreme Folk’. Exhibit A: ‘Writing On The Wall’, by Beans On Toast.
music REVIEW: Nadiwrath – Nihilistic Stench
Rich Etteridge smears himself in corpsepaint and dives straight into the latest release by Athens-based punked-up black metallers, Nadiwrath.
music REVIEW: Dub War – The Dub, The War And The Ugly
Welsh ragga-punk-metal mentalists Dub War’s unreleased material is dusted off, polished and packaged with a retrospective DVD – Rob McAuslan dons his dreadlocked wig and dives into the fray.
music REVIEW: Rash Decision – Temporary Worker (Clause 4.1)
Cornwall-based punks Rash Decision present their album for our listening pleasure. Rob forgets to have a bath for a couple of weeks and signs on.