Review: Steak ‘Steak’
On the PR blurb that gets attached to everything we review, there is a bit which resonates with me, as
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Album & EP Reviews
Review: Kavus Torabi ‘October By Name’
There are few musicians whose careers make the idea of musical boundaries seem quite so irrelevant as Kavus Torabi‘s. To
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Review: Abscence ‘Each Fervent Kiss’ EP
So, just over a year ago, I stumbled upon a band whose music I don’t usually give my time to
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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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