MIDNIGHT VICEMidnight Vice EP Self-released (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 Not to be confused with the long running Canadian metallers of the same name, the Midnight Vice I speak of here is a Tampa, Florida-based four-piece that started out three years ago. This release is their debut EP and consists of six excellent tracks pumped with 80s nostalgia. […]

JAG PANZER Release New Music Video For ‘Prey!’ Track July 28th, 2023 Colorado-based power metal band Jag Panzer have filmed a music video for the track ‘Prey!’, which can be viewed below. Regarding the song, guitarist Mark Briody said: “‘Prey!’ is probably the band’s favourite song to rehearse. The quick riff is lots of fun […]

GIRLSCHOOLWTFortyfive? Silver Lining Music (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 Forty-five years in the business and 14 studio albums to date, UK rockers Girlschool come charging out of the blocks with opening track ‘It Is What It Is’ as if to signal a new era of power. The energy, the snarl, the fire and the crunch has never gone […]

GIRLSCHOOL Share Animated Music Video For New Track ‘Cold Dark Heart’ July 26th, 2023 London, England-based hard rock band Girlschool have released an animated music video for the track ‘Cold Dark Heart’, which can be viewed below. Girlschool issue 14th full-length studio album WTFortyfive? on July 28th, 2023 through Silver Lining Music. The track ‘Are […]

FORMLESS OEDONStreams Of Rot Memento Mori (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 So impressed was I by this Filipino band and their 2020 EP Deathless Luminosity that I just had to get my bloody claws on their new debut full-length. If you’re not familiar with this Laguna-based foursome then snap up a copy of this; an utterly dark and […]

ETERNAL ROTMoribound Memento Mori / Godz Ov War Productions (2023)Rating: 9/10 Slithering in its own bodily secretions, the form that is UK-based Polish trio Eternal Rot peeks from its rancid lair and shirks away from the dim light. Is that a bulbous, squirming tiff or the sound of its own bursting intestinal tumours? Writhing in […]

ARTANORIn Servitude Of Darkness Gutter Prince Cabal (2023)Rating: 8/10 Australia, home to burning sun, venomous snakes, killer spiders, bone-munching sharks and a chap named Menelyagor who, since 2006, has been the sole brainchild behind Artanor. This is a New South Wales black metal project that is as far removed from sun-bleached beaches as it gets. […]

TREAZON Victim Of Treason (2023) Expect this Glasgow, Kentucky-based metal band to make huge waves in the next few years because this three-track demo rocks. It’s as if one has discovered an 80s metal gem on an old cassette only to find the band in question imploded before they released an album. This feels obscure […]

COSMIC DEMONApocalipsis Universal EP Self-released (2023)Rating: 8/10 The ominous skies over Ancud in Chile suggest something wicked is coming this way, and indeed it does in the form of one man band Cosmic Demon. After a creepy intro (‘La Llegada’) it’s as if the clouds have broken and spilled blood to a soundtrack of thunderous […]

TRICLAVIANPierced By The Spear EP Covenant / Serpent’s Head Reprisal (2023)Rating: 8/10 Pierced By The Spear is the work of a Vancouver, British Columbia-based trio whose brand of pitch black metal oozes a despicable thorniness and raging, blasphemous streak. I love everything about this nasty four-track affair (including a brief intro), a sinister and mysterious […]