Category: Review

  • Hutch takes a journey to Portland to check out some new Blackened Thrash from Bewitcher The third album from Portland’s Bewitcher and their first for Century Media, Cursed Be Thy Kingdom is a gnarly, gritty,and filthy under the fingernails type of record.…

    Bewitcher –Cursed Be Thy Kingdom
  • Chris Cleo investigates the new release from the Danish Death Thrashers.. here’s what he thinks: – Returning with a second full-length effort are Denmark’s Shadowspawn, offering ten new tracks as the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Hope Lies Dormant’.  While certainly not…

    Shadowspawn – The Biology of Disbelief
  • Paul Hutchings heads to the Philippines to investigate the new album by Exterminated I’m not familiar with the extreme metal scene in the Philippines but if Exterminated are anything to go by, it’s a savage land with little other than hostility…

    Exterminated –The Genesis of Genocide
  • Frank Holby reviews the new single….. Irelands groove-infused metalcore outfit “Dead Label” has been quiet on new releases recently. Their last offering was 2016’s full length “Throne of bones” A full on, in your face, relentless slab of heaviness. That…

    Dead Label – Dead Weight
  • Asa delves into the Blackened Thrash of Sadistic Force Do you like your Thrash fast, aggressive and blackened? Well do we have a treat for you! Sadistic Force are a Black/Thrash outfit from Austin, Texas. Formed in 2020, they’ve released…

    Sadistic Force – First Strikes
  • We can always count on Paul Hutchings to turn around a review in record time for us, as he checks out the first single from the upcoming new album due in the summer… My first exposure to Vesicarum, a five-piece…

    Vesicarum –Great Decay (Single)
  • When this dropped through the promo mailbox we wanted to do it justice, so we asked our mate Paul Jones of UK Blackened Crossover SIDEWINDER to do a guest review for us, here’s what he had to say….. When 5…

    Borstal – At Her Majesty’s Pleasure
  • Asa takes a deep dive into the reissue of classic DM from Denmark.. Iniquity are, or I guess WERE, a Technical Death Metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark that formed in 1989 and then split up and got back together more…

    Iniquity – Five Across The Eyes Re-Issue
  • Robbie from The Thrash Metal Album Of The Fortnight Club is a busy guy, but he’s always up for grabbing a single from us to check out between his packed schedule, so here’s what he thinks about Swedens Ominum and…

    Ominum – The Crescent Or The Cross (single)
  • The War Jazz machine keeps turning as Acid Age release their long awaited new opus, Semper Pessimus. With a wait of five years, we were really interested to see what the Northern Irish trio have been up to, and how…

    Acid Age – Semper Pessimus