SONIC DEMONVeterans Of The Psychic War Self-released (2023)Rating: 7/10 Drenched in fuzz and grooving like a late 60s satanic orgy, Italian weed eaters Sonic Demon prowl the night like a deranged Charles Manson-esque cult yet armed with massive, dirty riffs and numerous psychedelics to keep them in their doom-stoned trance. Naturally there is a lot […]
THE CROOKED WHISPERSFuneral Blues Ripple Music (2023)Rating: 8/10 As its title suggests, the new full-length album from American-Argentinian combo The Crooked Whispers arrives with extra bluesy lethargy, but the cult continues its esoteric worshipping of the psych / doom gods. Obviously Black Sabbath and Death SS spring to mind, but there are nods towards Burning […]
RED RUM Premiere Music Video For New Track ‘We Pirates’ April 7th, 2023 East Midlands, England-based folk / pirate metal band Red Rum have released a music video for the track ‘We Pirates’, which can be viewed below. Red Rum issue second full-length studio album Book Of Legends on April 14th, 2023 through Trollzorn Records. […]
DAWN OF OUROBOROS Stream New Track ‘Testudines’ April 7th, 2023 Oakland, California-based blackened progressive metal band Dawn Of Ouroboros have made the track ‘Testudines’ available for streaming, which can be accessed below. “‘Testudines’ is the second track on the album and is another example of how we like to vary our sound as a band,” […]
HEATHEN FORAY Release Sixth Studio Album ‘Oathbreaker’ April 7th, 2023 Graz, Styria, Austria-based melodic death metal band Heathen Foray issued sixth full-length studio album Oathbreaker on April 7th, 2023 through Massacre Records. Oathbreaker was produced by guitarist Jürgen Brüder and Adam Train, recording sessions being helmed by Jürgen Brüder at Studios Hermanos in Graz, Austria. […]
WITCH PISSWitch Piss Saturni (2023)Rating: 6.5/10 Well, I never thought I’d hear the voice of English actor, broadcaster and comedian Stephen Fry sampled for a doom / stoner record, but maybe this Antwerp, Belgium-based group is unaware of just how gentle a soul Mr Fry is and that his dulcet tones just don’t suit such […]
ANTHROPOPHAGOUSAbuse Of A Corpse Headsplit / Night Rhythms Recordings (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 Following on from their 2021 full-length debut Death Fugue, West Springfield, Massachusetts-based Anthropophagous returns with a cracking example of old school death / thrash led by the grisly vocal snarls of Shane Dupuy whose guitar sound is as equally fetid. Delivering classic thrash dynamics, […]
GRAVEWORM: Music Video For New Track ‘We Are The Resistance’ Launched April 6th, 2023 Italian extreme metal band Graveworm have released a music video for the track ‘We Are The Resistance’, which can be viewed below. Graveworm issue tenth full-length studio album Killing Innocence on April 28th, 2023 through AFM Records. Vocals were recorded with […]
MISSION IN BLACK Issue Lyric Video For Title Track Of Forthcoming ‘Profit Reigns Supreme’ Album April 6th, 2023 Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany-based power / thrash metal band Mission In Black have released an official lyric video for the title track to forthcoming new studio album Profit Reigns Supreme, which can be viewed below. Mission In Black […]
HAUNTED CRUCIFIXPurple Goat EP Self-released (2023)Rating: 6/10 What we have here is a rather compelling oddity from a Greek chap named Leviathan (Adventum Diaboli / Unreality In One’s Self) who has followed on from the 2021 Booze Witch full-length with this new five-track EP. Purple Goat is, to put it simply, a stoner / doom […]
