HEAVYDEATHEternal Sleepwalker Svart (2015)Rating: 8/10 How is it humanly possible that a band can release seven demos, one single and an EP all in the space of one year?! And if that’s not enough, somehow between this they have recorded their debut album! The band I speak of is Sweden’s menacing drone gods Heavydeath who […]
NECROWRETCH – The Bells Of Evil Schism Anthony Morgan February 2015 Necrowretch (l-r): Amphycion, Vlad and Ilmar Valence, France-based extreme metal outfit Necrowretch formed during 2008, the brainchild of the mysteriously named Vlad. The man wished to perform extreme fare, much in the vein of the death metal that he had always enjoyed. Consequently, Vlad […]
NECROWRETCHWith Serpents Scourge Century Media (2015)Rating: 8.5/10
MERCILESS DEATHTaken Beyond Self-released (2015)Rating: 5/10 Merciless Death has become a recognisable name in the contemporary thrash metal scene. They created their initial vibes with 2006 debut platter Evil In The Night, which emerged three years after the group formed out of Canyon County, California. While they seemed to emerge at the “right time” with […]
TALONFourplay Escape Music (2015)Rating: 8.5/10 As the title suggest, Fourplay is the fourth instalment from Los Angeles, California-based rockers Talon who provide a nice lightweight, breezy rock ’n’ roll groove based around the modest, yet effective vocal tone of returning frontman Michael O’Mara. If Talon (formerly known as Voxen) had been placed in the late […]
THE AGONISTEye Of Providence Century Media (2015)Rating: 8/10 After a decade in the metal scene, Montreal’s The Agonist is no stranger to fans of aggressive music. In case you have been “finding yourself” on a mountain retreat for the last year or so, the band got a lot of press in 2014 when former vocalist […]
BLACK STAR RIDERS – Blindsided Anthony Morgan February 2015 Black Star Riders (l-r): Robbie Crane, Damon Johnson, Ricky Warwick, Jimmy DeGrasso and Scott Gorham On October 10th, 2012, hard rock outfit Thin Lizzy announced that it would ultimately bid farewell to touring, and not record a new album under that aforementioned moniker. Lead vocalist / […]
GORELUSTWe Are The Undead PRC Music (2015)Rating: 7/10 Emerging from Québec in Canada during 1991, it’s safe to say that Gorelust has been rather inactive since its inception because We Are The Undead is only the band’s second album. The debut emerged in 1995 and was entitled Reign Of Lunacy, but the band split up […]
PUTRID OFFALMature Necropsy Kaotoxin (2015)Rating: 9/10 As preparation for this raging slab of death metal, French extreme metallers Putrid Offal battered our senses with the horrible 2014 EP Suffering. I was pretty convinced by the strong overtones of Swedish death metal as expected from these old school gods, and I salivated over the rancid vocal […]
DISTILLATORRevolutionary Cells Empire (2015)Rating: 6/10 Thrash metal from the Netherlands is the order of the day here, Distillator being a rather routine stalk slash and thrash trio which formed in 2013. The curious vocal yelps are provided by one Laurens H. (who also plays guitar), who is actually more of a force when he sticks […]
