Danny Heaton and Phil Whitehouse take you through some of the bands they’re looking forward to seeing at ‘Kin Hell Fest 2 at the Templeworks in Leeds, a three-day festival to be held from the 26th to the 28th of April for the wallet-pleasing sum of £35.
San Franciscan sludge/post-metallers Kowloon Walled City’s latest album Container Ships hovers over the horizon – Phil Whitehouse waves from the docks.
OneMetal’s newest contributor Michael Atkin takes on the jabbing claws protruding from Plymouth-based death/sludge act Warcrab’s self-titled debut album.
Oliver Longden trawls through the darker, danker, more miserable climes of the OneMetal review queue to bring you this round-up of releases by doom metallers A Tree of Signs, Alunah, Clamfight, XII Boar and Pombagira.
Swedish sludge/doom metal trio Kongh return with latest album ‘Sole Creation’ – Chris McGarel flies a biplane around their head.
Chicago trio Arbogast blend metallic hardcore, sludge, thrash and prog on their debut full-length ‘I’ – Phil Whitehouse takes a listen.
In this Grindcore-flavoured edition of Round-Up, Phil Whitehouse checks out releases by Bolesno Grinje, Temblad, Liberteer, Subliminal Chaos and Human Cull.
Undersmile are a rising force on the UK sludge scene, but can their debut LP satisfy expectations? Danny Heaton finds out. Slowly.
Sludge metal, bluesy swagger and progressive intricacy come together on ‘Iron Chest’, the sophomore release by German trio Earthship. Phil Whitehouse renders his verdict on the effectiveness of the blend.
Having made a new fan in Dani last January, Atlanta’s Sons of Tonatiuh return with a second offering for fans of crusty sludge metal. Will she still follow the Sons after this, or will she be sorry she ever listened?
The Seattle stoner metallers Melvins have released their eighteenth studio album with a stripped down line-up. Can it hold its own against their impressive back catalogue? Luke Morton gives it a spin.
What kind of monk steals an innocent man’s trainers, teabags him, covers him in graffiti then chains him to a crucifix with a bag over his head? In the first Screen Test of 2012, Phil Whitehouse checks out Venezuelan sludge metallers Cultura Tres’ ‘Purified’ in search of the answer to that question.
Originators of ‘swamp metal’ Black Tusk return with their fourth album Set The Dial. Luke Morton dives in.
Phil Whitehouse gets high and is brought low at the hands of Virginia sludge/doom merchants Cough’s latest album, ‘Ritual Abuse’.
Plymouth, UK-based doom metal quintet Ishmael impressed Phil Whitehouse so much at Bloodstock 2010, he bought the company. Well, okay, no he didn’t – he blagged a copy of their demo. Click on to see whether it lives up to their live performance!
On their third record, Oakland quartet Saviours rock it old-school – but can their 70s and 80s-centric bluster compete in the contemporary arena?