CENTINEX Release Ninth Studio Album ‘Redeeming Filth’ November 21st, 2014 Avesta, Sweden-based death metal group Centinex issued ninth full-length studio album Redeeming Filth on November 21st, 2014 in Europe through Agonia Records. The label scheduled North American release for December 9th. The outing was made available in the following formats; digipack CD, digital, black vinyl, […]
BRANT BJORK – Soldier Of Rock Anthony Morgan November 2014 Brant Bjork Brant Bjork – based in Palm Springs, California and best known for his tenure behind the drumkit for stoner rock outfit Kyuss – embarked upon the Kyuss-related ensemble Vista Chino from 2010 until 2014, a band which spawned the lone outing
SKELETHALInterstellar Knowledge Of The Purple Entity EP Iron Bonehead Productions (2014)Rating: 8/10 It seems that French duo Skelethal have been rather busy of late, having released a split project with Swedish death metallers Inisans earlier this year, followed by an EP (Deathmanicvs Revelation), and now this rather bizarrely titled EP which sounds more akin to […]
BLOODBATH – Unite In Pleasure Anthony Morgan November 2014 Bloodbath (l-r): Anders Nyström, Jonas Renkse, Nick Holmes, Martin Axenrot and Per Eriksson On September 16th, 2014, it was revealed that death metal supergroup Bloodbath had recruited Nick Holmes – vocalist for West Yorkshire-based gothic metal outfit Paradise Lost – to step behind the microphone. The […]
TENAlbion Rocktopia (2014)Rating: 7.5/10 Having released their debut opus X back in 1996, British melodic hard rockers Ten were well received in the UK and more understandably Japan, and yet in spite of shifting some 100,000 units of that debut they slipped under the radar of many. Even so, since their inception – and a […]
ORCULTUS Black Rust (2014) Black Rust is the latest experiment in dissonant, obscure black metal from Swedish oddities Orcultus. The band plays truly pitch black, miserable, raw black metal which some of us demented folk grew accustomed to during the Norwegian wave all those years ago. So, fans of Horna, Judas Iscariot et al take […]
HANDS OF ORLACFigli Del Crepuscolo Horror / Terror From Hell (2014)Rating: 9/10 It’s been three years since Hands Of Orlac released its 2011 debut opus onto the world, and now the band is back with another episode in ghoulish horror! Cower in fear at that cosmic introduction ‘I Figli Del Crepuscolo’, which has all the […]
STRYPER – Loud ‘N’ Clear Anthony Morgan November 2014 Stryper live at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, California on November 16th, 2013 On January 14th, 2013, it was revealed that American Christian heavy metal outfit Stryper had inked an album contract with Naples, Italy-based classic rock and metal label Frontiers Music Srl. The […]
JOB FOR A COWBOY – A Global Shift Anthony Morgan November 2014 Job For A Cowboy live at the San Manuel Amphitheater in San Bernardino, California on June 29th, 2013 American death metal outfit Job For A Cowboy hired Nick Schendzielos during early 2011 to handle bass duties, previous member Brent Riggs having occupied the […]
RATED X – Getting Back Their Crown Anthony Morgan November 2014 Rated X (l-r): Tony Franklin, Carmine Appice, Joe Lynn Turner and Karl Cochran Serafino Perugino – founder of Naples, Italy-based rock label Frontiers Records – contacted erstwhile Rainbow and Deep Purple vocalist Joe Lynn Turner with a view to the frontman being part of […]
