Review: hijss ‘hijss’
Following the blistering, psychotic ‘industrial’ noise-rock, fuelled by pulsating blues riffs, that powered their 2024 debut album Stuck On Common
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Review: The Ocean ‘Solaris’
The twelfth album from Berlin post-metal juggernauts The Ocean leaves long-time listeners a lot to unpack. The elephant in the
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Review: Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree ‘In Between Strides’
Sometimes a band never truly finds themselves until well into their career. Starting out as one thing and evolving along
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Review: Moon Destroys ‘OMNI’
Miami, Florida psych-heavy power trio Moon Destroys, founded by Juan Montoya (ex-Torche) and Evan Diprima (Gold Pyramid, ex-Royal Thunder), with
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Review: Godflesh ‘Decay’
Godflesh. For the last forty years, that name has been synonymous with both extreme and industrial metal. They also took
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Review: DRIFT. ‘Violence For Your Furs’
It’s only when Nathalia Bruno, aka DRIFT. joined God Unknown Records roster that I sat up and took notice, as
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Review: The Fierce And The Dead ‘Regional Theatre’
Way back in May 2024, while attending the last of the annual Portals Festival, one of the bands I came
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Review: Beans ‘Less Louder’
Sometimes, when reading the press releases accompanying new albums, one has to be careful not to be swayed by the
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Review: Foreign Body ‘Libertine’
This is another new band for me to explore, and their album focuses on the levels of darkness that every
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Review: Various Artists ‘Yeah Man, It’s Bloody Heavy!! Volume 2’
I’ve not reviewed anything from Rise Above Records for a fair while, the last time being way back in 2020
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Review: Shannon Jae Ridout ‘The Magnolia Sessions’
Country-folk singer-songwriters have been with me for as long as I can remember, their music becoming part of the fabric
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