EP REVIEW: ‘Cruel World’ by The Shrine
At the minute, it seems like every band who openly admits to being influenced by the ‘70s needs to be approached with the utmost caution. Call it a knee-jerk reaction […]
Track Pack – 8th-14th April 2019
THIS WEEK: A new-look Hacktivist make their first impact with a brand new track, alongside new music from Baroness, Defeater, Cave In and more
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Highway Crosses’ by All Hail The Yeti
Looking back on it now, some of the uncertainty and hesitance towards All Hail The Yeti feels quite undeserved. With the way that some spoke about their fusion of metalcore […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Solitude And Savagery’ by Barbarian Hermit
It doesn’t seem too out of the question to presume that there should be more newer sludge-metal bands coming out, but at the same time, that doesn’t seem like the […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Extraterra’ by Vaureen
There are some genres where it’s difficult to talk about them at length. For everything about pop-punk or metalcore that’s easy to criticise, they’re both profoundly boring genres to talk […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Electric Messiah’ by High On Fire
It’s often tempting to stack Matt Pike’s work with High On Fire against that of his other band Sleep, but it never really aids the conversation on either side. For […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘ATW’ by All Them Witches
In a genre like stoner-rock, size is completely relative. Queens Of The Stone Age and, to an extent, Clutch might buck that trend, but even the biggest acts in those […]
Track Pack – 10th-16th September 2018
THIS WEEK: Architects make their triumphant return with a brand new track, plus reviews of The 1975, Smashing Pumpkins, The Black Queen, Against The Current, The Distillers, Fucked Up, Within Temptation, mewithoutYou, Rival Sons and more
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Ascend’ by Vodun
On a purely conceptual level, compared virtually any other UK band, Vodun are basically untouchable. There’s such a rich well to be drawn from by combining the modern brand of […]
EP REVIEW: ‘The Mountain Of Gold’ by URNE
It never gets old, does it? It never gets old listening to a metal band who are simply content with making the grisliest, most enormous-sounding shit possible, and especially when […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Wizard Bloody Wizard’ by Electric Wizard
In case it wasn’t obvious enough that Electric Wizard have a thing for Black Sabbath (y’know, with the sound and the fact that their name is literally derived from a […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Black Morphine’ by Fire Red Empress
A common misconception about modern hard rock is that it’s all the sort of simplified, dumbed-down fare that becomes a mainstay on rock radio. The truth is those beliefs are […]
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