Switchblade – S/T – CD 2009
Wrenching their sounds out of the same dark matter as bands such as Khanate, Earth and Floor, Switchblade present their
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Album & EP Reviews
Pyramido ‘Sand’ CD 2009
Jesus, some bands really don’t make it easy do they? Swedish sludge crew Pyramido give nothing away at first glance.
Read More >>Chickenhawk ‘A.Or Not’ CDEP 2009
When Chickenhawk’s debut album on Sound Devastation landed it was a caustic breath of air whose collision of punk and
Read More >>Ocean Chief ‘Den Förste’ LP 2009
I’m guessing an album containing three tracks isn’t exactly going to be punk rock…and I’m right!!! Ocean Chief come lumbering
Read More >>Mourning Dawn ‘For The Fallen’ CD 2009
One of the virtues of heavy music being so relatively young a genre is that it can still be bent
Read More >>Hyadningar ‘The Weak Creation’ CD 2009
Black Metal can often be a genre that is derided from the outside, I mean how best to prepare myself
Read More >>Earthless ‘Live At Roadburn’ CD/LP 2008
I had the very good fortune of seeing San Diego’s lysergic masters of the extended super-jam reality, Earthless, on their
Read More >>Elder – S/T – CD/LP 2009
Riffs. Everywhere. Gigantic thick distorted riffs. Help me mother, the riffs are here, and they want fresh plasma and bone
Read More >>Sourvein / Blood Island Raiders – Split 7″ 2009
Well bugger me sideways if Calculon Records haven’t gone and done it again with this release. This heavyweight lump of
Read More >>Queen Beast – S/T – CD 2009
In an age of plagiarists and clones it is often difficult to find something truly original. Queen Beast are here
Read More >>Voivod ‘Infini’ CD 2009
When guitarist Piggy succumbed to colon cancer in 2005 during the piecing together of the Katorz album it pretty much
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