Tag: new music

  • Gareth checks out the recent offering German Melo-deathers.. Hiraes, here’s what he thinks!! With a band name derived from the Welsh word “hiraeth”, which stands for ‘the nostalgia and yearning for lost places of the past or a home that…

    Review – Hiraes – Dormant
  • Hutch heads to Berlin for the first of his reviews in the coming weeks from German Thrashers, here’s what he thinks of their sophomore outing… I’d never heard of these four thrashers before Left in Shards arrived in the in-box.…

    Review – Exa – Left In Shards
  • It’s Hutch’s last review of the year, and what a better way to finish that with a UK band, here’s what he thinks of the new album from the Catalysis lads… It’s been a while since I crossed the path…

    Review – Catalysis – Betrayer 
  • Hutch reviews the debut album from Dublin Thrashers Crossfire, here’s what he thinks… Having a name that is used by about a zillion thrash bands isn’t the most helpful when hunting down information as part of your due diligence in…

    Review – Crossfire (Irl) – Switch To Reset
  • Sheffield.. the city of steel, and whilst the industrial revolution has long passed the city is still offering up some musical deep cuts. Who knows why some areas become aligned to a genre and tap into a rich and ever…

    Review – Torn Between – Last Chance Saloon (EP)
  • Gareth straps in for a round of cold thrash from Canada… here’s what he thinks of the new album by Aggression If you like your thrash a bit more primordial, then Canadian metalheads Aggression might just be up your street? Formed back…

    Review – Aggression – Frozen Aggressors
  • There’s nothing like a Christmas single…. and this is nothing like one!! Hutch checks out the new track from the Gutlocker boys!! Like a good dose of the clap, Gutlocker continue to persist despite best efforts to forget them. It…

    Review – Gutlocker – The Payoff (single)
  • Don’t be nasty…. eat a pasty!! The Dark Cookie checks out the new single from out mates from the south west…. I do not associate the West Country with face-melting, manically moshing metal thrashing mad bastards who can produce a gloriously…

    Review – Mechanized – Lethonomia (single)
  • Hutch loves a one man band, nothing like being able to play the guitar, a bass drum, finger cymbals and nose flute at the same time to ‘Sweet Home Alabama’…. oh wait a minute….. Heard of Alchemy of Flesh? Me…

    Review – Alchemy of Flesh – By Will Alone
  • Gareth smothers himself in maple syrup and shares his nuts with a stoned beaver whilst he reviews the new Hyper album…. enough stereotypes in that intro?? Canada has a great reputation when it comes to thrash bands, Annihilator, Exciter, Razor, and now new…

    Review – Hyperia – The Serpents Cycle