Dave Cain, despite having spent most of his adult life playing bass in Oi! street punk band ROTUNDA, has another musical passion – thrash! Dave takes time… Read more “Dave Cain of ROTUNDA – Top Ten Thrash Albums”
Category: Album Reviews
WHITE NOISE – The most offensive anti-racist song ever written.
My first lesson in racism was at the age of 14 with Irish punk band STIFF LITTLE FINGERS’s first album Inflammable Material, and one of the most… Read more “WHITE NOISE – The most offensive anti-racist song ever written.”
SMOULDER – ‘DREAM QUEST ENDS’ review.
You have to crack open the beers when an epic heavy metal band comes along and gets everything pretty much right, and I guess this is one… Read more “SMOULDER – ‘DREAM QUEST ENDS’ review.”
TULUS ‘Old Old Death’ review.
After SARKE’s excellent Gastwerso album release of last winter, multi-instrumentalist Thomas Bergli, who we interviewed here, spoke then of a return to the studio with his old… Read more “TULUS ‘Old Old Death’ review.”
ATEIGGÄR – ‘Us d‘r Höll chunnt nume Zyt’ review
It’s easy to forget how much the black metal second wave was a maelstrom of novel ideas, a blossoming of details and musical skills that the world… Read more “ATEIGGÄR – ‘Us d‘r Höll chunnt nume Zyt’ review”
IHSAHN – ‘Telemark’ review
Are you wondering what the new Ihsahn EP sounds like? And like, is the progressive post black metal world still actually progressing, or is it just a… Read more “IHSAHN – ‘Telemark’ review”
ANVIL – ‘Legal at Last’ review
Groups that get better with age…..really? Last month I saw a young heavy metal band at Live Evil festival, and remember finding it difficult to find a… Read more “ANVIL – ‘Legal at Last’ review”
LUGUBRUM TRIO ‘Plage Chômage’ review
So, here it is, and you probably deserve it if you have followed the band this far, a Lugubrum Trio album with absolutely no black metal in… Read more “LUGUBRUM TRIO ‘Plage Chômage’ review”
XENTRIX – ‘Bury The Pain’ review
XENTRIX are playing in a couple of weeks, and although not my usual cup of tea, I’m going to see them anyway because I’ve been blessed with… Read more “XENTRIX – ‘Bury The Pain’ review”
RAINBOW GRAVE – ‘NO YOU’ LP review.
Like a crowd of cavemen awestruck at seeing a wheel for the first time, a new bass riff is torturously trundled forwards, to the throb of auroch-skinned… Read more “RAINBOW GRAVE – ‘NO YOU’ LP review.”
