Revelation ‘Inner Harbor’ LP/DD 2012
With all the doom metal also-rans that are lining up to bore the casual listener these days, you’d think that
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Ravens Creed ‘The Power’ CD/LP 2012
Ah, thrash metal! Music of energy, anger and spit! Also a genre I’m very picky with – I can’t listen
Read More >>Rites – S/T – 12″ 2012
I don’t know exactly what ‘rites’ this Galway-based four-piece are involved in but judging by their music, they’re of the
Read More >>Red Fang ‘Murder The Mountains’ CD/LP/DD 2011
Some bands just need that one song to kick start their career. Unfortunately for a lot of those bands that
Read More >>Rwake ‘Rest’ CD/LP/DD 2011
Little Rock, Arkansas’s Rwake rock more than a little; their songs are propelled by a primal force that may well
Read More >>Rue ‘Thorns’ CD/DD 2011
When Rue’s second full-length ‘Thorns’ opens to the gently layered, acoustic guitar musing of the title track, the unwary listener
Read More >>Rising ‘To Solemn Ash’ CD/LP/DD 2011
Having landed on Germany’s home of cool alternative rock, Denmark’s The Rising offer the first slab of straight up Metal
Read More >>Retox ‘Ugly Animals’ CD 2011
OW! My goddamn head! Jesus, Retox make one hell of an intense racket. Four dudes with a wealth of experience
Read More >>Ramesses ‘Possessed By The Rise Of Magik’ CD 2011
Controversy in a goat skull. This has been one tough motherfucker of an album to review. I’m all dried up
Read More >>redrighthand ‘they sang and chanted for hours, then the locked-in hundreds set themselves ablaze’ CD 2011
redrighthand walked the dark trenches of sludge a few years back and they were always an awesome band to watch
Read More >>Ramesses ‘Chrome Pineal’ 12″ 2011
Since drummer Mark Greening and guitarist Tim Bagshaw defected from their previous employer and hooked up with bassist/vocalist Adam Richardson
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