Category: Review

  • Hutch checks out a new level of brutality from the West Midlands You’d expect Callous Hands to rip the flesh off your face, wouldn’t you? The Birmingham quintet are one angry bunch. Perhaps it’s that hard hands-on work and gym…

    Review – Callous Hands – Trapped in Animated Flesh
  • When a band that have been around since the early 2000’s, have people like Ian Glasper as alumni and they start to release new material… then you need to take notice – Neil Cook has a read of the Suicide…

    Review – Suicide Watch – Become The Storm (Single)
  • The Dark Cookie heads into uncharted realms as he gets a listen to the new album by Bloodyard, here’s what he thinks! Full disclosure time people, I am a tad out of my comfort zone.  I am an old geezer and…

    Review – Bloodyard – Distilled Aggression
  • Chris Cleo checks out the blistering new EP from Must Kill out today….. Hard hitters of the UK thrash scene Must Kill offer up a second EP titled ‘Cause and Effect’ towards the end of June.  As a big fan…

    Review – Must kill – Cause and Effect
  • The West Midlands has a rich history in extreme metal, and in the late 80’s early 90’s your favourite Extreme Metal band was as likely to of been from Birmingham as Florida, and it was quite normal to be having…

    Review – DeathCollector – Death’s Toll
  • Hutch checks out the new single from Elyrean, here’s what he thinks…. Hot on the heels of their recent single release Perpetually Entombed, the Midland quartet’s second serving is the six-minute Lungs of Venus. It’s a step or two away…

    Review – Elyrean – Lungs Of Venus (single)
  • When the review team bring you a review that wasn’t on the list, you know the band in question means something quite special!! Gareth takes an off the clock listen to the new Metal Church album and shares his review……

    Review – Metal Church – Congregation of Annihilation
  • Our own Riffer Of Death Chris Cleo risks taking a blast beat to the face for the team, as he reviews the new album by UK Death/Thrash Metal masters ‘The Bleeding’ Seasoned riff connoisseurs are always on the lookout for…

    Review – The Bleeding – Monokrator
  • Those young whippersnappers from Oldham are back with their sophomore album, after demolishing Bloodstock and touring with UK thrash giants Xentrix, the thrashcore four piece offer up ‘Rise Of The Lifeless’ Now the lads are no strangers to us here…

    Review – Tortured Demon – Rise Of The Lifeless
  • Neil Bolton grabbed the new album from Dog Tired from our ‘for review’ list…. and I think he’s glad he did…… Its an eerie soundscape that greets the listener before the drums begin on Dog Tired’s latest  release. It is…

    Review – Dog Tired – The Red Verse