CREINIUMProject Utopia EP Inverse (2014)Rating: 7/10 Beginning with an introduction more suitable to an episode of fantasy television series Game Of Thrones, Helsinki’s Creinium start their journey on this debut five-track EP. These guys – a sextet by trade – are a relatively new band, having started in 2012. Having then released their Modern World […]
SEASON OF ARROWSSeason Of Arrows The Path Less Traveled (2014)Rating: 8.5/10 Just when you think you’ve heard it all, along comes a band that throws a spanner in the works. US rock band Season Of Arrows has to be one of the most intriguing bands I’ve heard in a long while. This is a female-fronted […]
KYNGBurn The Serum Razor & Tie (2014)Rating: 6/10 Grrr! This is such a frustrating record. Kyng are, to put it bluntly, just another stoner band with elements of sun-blessed doom. In other words, it’s of that Black Sabbath slant but with heaps of Corrosion Of Conformity, Dirty Americans, Kyuss, Monster Magnet and goodness how many […]
PACTThe Infernal Hierarchies, Penetrating The Threshold Of Night Moribund (2014)Rating: 7.5/10 Now there’s an album title you might… or might not forget in a hurry. The Infernal Hierarchies, Penetrating The Threshold Of Night is the second full-length release from this black metal trio that hails from Pennsylvania. It follows on from the reasonable fury of […]
TRIPTYKONMelana Chasmata Prowling Death / Century Media (2014)Rating: 10/10 When Tom G. Warrior was confusing critics and admirers alike during his days with Swiss avant-garde metallers Celtic Frost, no-one at the time seemed to realise just how important this guy would become in metal circles. Since the primeval days of Hellhammer and then on to […]
BELOWAcross The Dark River Metal Blade (2014)Rating: 8/10 Not to be confused with the obscure, late 90s and also Swedish band of the name moniker, and also not to be confused with two US doom bands of the same name, this quintet began life back in 2011 while under the influence of classic doom metal […]
HELLYEAH Premiere Music Video For ‘Hush’ Track April 13th, 2015 American heavy metal group Hellyeah have premiered a music video for the song ‘Hush’, directed by Robert Sexton in Hollywood, California – the same director who spearheaded the videos ‘Sangre Por Sangre (Blood For Blood)’ and ‘Moth’. The video can be viewed below. American heavy […]
SHRIKESieben Self-released (2014)Rating: 6/10 Shrike is a German black metal act with a difference! Adding extra charred chunks of flesh to their new album, these guys have an extra something when it comes to vomiting out their brand of filth. The quintet have been around since 2006 and released debut platter Meine Wucherung the same […]
DELIRIUM TREMENSRead My Fist Iron Shield (2014)Rating: 3.5/10 Taking their name from a term which literally means “shaking frenzy” – which comes from alcohol withdrawal – this German thrash quintet are one of many to adopt such a moniker, but this bunch of beer-fuelled moshers have in fact been swigging, gigging and rocking since the […]
E-FORCEThe Curse… Mausoleum (2014)Rating: 8/10 The Curse… is album number three from French-Canadian power thrashers E-Force who have been rather intermittent as far as albums go. This 11-track affair is the band’s first platter since 2008’s Modified Poison, which in turn came some five years after the Evil Forces debut in 2003. In a sense, […]
