Review: Goatburner ‘Fatal’
Fatal is a blistering album. Guitar and vocalist Keijo Niinimaa (Rotten Sound), aka Kaos, and drummer Jack Foreman (Ratface), aka
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Author: James Bullock
Review: Sphaèros ‘Possession’
Sonically, this album is the creation of a voodoo wizard, blending the intensity of Dr John with the spontaneous energy
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Review: Voidhaven ‘Lithic’
While the cliché advises against judging a book by its cover, Voidhaven‘s album Lithic makes it hard not to do
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Review: Arthur King ‘Changing Landscapes (Zompopa)’
Arthur King is a pretty unique group. This is the fourth album in their Changing Landscapes series that features musique
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Review: Liturgy ‘93696’
This album is epic in the traditional sense of the word. The first track, Daily Bread, opens with Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix‘s
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Review: Håndgemeng ‘Ultraritual’
From the triumphant opening guitar riff on the first track of Håndgemeng’s Ultraritural, it is clear that this is not
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Review: Majesties ‘Vast Reaches Unclaimed’
As a fairly focussed old school death metal fan, the Swedish melodic death metal scene is a genre that I
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Review: Bruxa Maria ‘Build Yourself A Shrine And Pray’
I saw Bruxa Maria at one fine Desertfest London in 2017. It was teeth rattling, to the point I had
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Review: Dead Soul Alliance ‘Spiralling To Lunacy’
Following 2021’s very well received Behind The Scenes, Dead Soul Alliance have produced another ferocious, cerebral old school death metal
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Review: Dead Sea Apes / The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol ‘Pantheon Of Fuckery’
To get the main point covered: this is a really nice spacey, psychy split, with a slightly odd album title.
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Review: Gosudar/Malignant Altar – Split EP
The guttural, sludgy death metal of Texas’s Malignant Altar meeting the gloomy majesty of Moscow’s Gosudar seems like a meeting
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