I once got called a Poundshop Fenriz by someone soon after I stumbled into music journalism. When I am not writing about music I am either reading about it, listening to it or being a bandwhore and playing it in one of my three current bands
Long-running German teutonic black thrash brigade Desaster return with their eighth album. If you are familiar with the band then you can expect the same musical formula as the majority of their previous full-lengths, it’s definetly a case of black thrash is my business and business is good!
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Swedish death metal veterans Interment have returned with their second full-length album full of buzzsaw HM 2 pedal driven riffing and an overall vibe that evokes the heyday of the Swedish death metal scene circa 1989-1993, which is when this Avesta-based band first hit the underground demo scene. … Read More
German thrashers Accuser may have been active in one incarnation or another since the mid-’80s but I dare say they have flown under the radar of a lot of metalheads outside of Germany. These are true underdogs of the Teutonic thrash metal scene but that hasn’t stopped them from releasing an … Read More
Memoriam are a new death metal band from Birmingham, England but the various members involved are no newcomers to the scene. Formed in the wake of Bolt Thrower going on a hiatus after the sudden passing of their long-time drummer Martin “Kiddie” Kearns, Memoriam sees Bolt Thrower vocalist Karl … Read More
Oscar Karlsson 1976 – 2016
On March 4 the Swedish death metal band Gates Of Ishtar posted on their Facebook page: “It is with much sadness and regret that we have learned that our drummer and friend Oscar Karlsson has passed away at the age of 39. Words cannot express … Read More
Pittsburgh doom dealers Dream Death are back with their third full-length album and their second in quick succession after reforming a few years ago.
‘Dissemination’ continues on where the previous album (2013’s ‘Somnium Excessum’) left off, full of up-tempo Frostian riffing and a mixture of mid-paced and down-tempo doom … Read More
California’s legendary pioneers of sick and twisted death metal Autopsy released a platter of splatter late last year via Peaceville Records, the first of which was ‘After The Cutting’, a monster of a collector’s release that will feature four discs worth of material. We got in touch with vocalist/drummer Chris … Read More
Ketzer have made a drastic change in musical direction on their new album ‘Starless’. What inspired such a shift from the rabid thrash aggression to a more dark hard rock style? Was it just a case of evolving naturally or wanting to experiment outside of the restrictive confines of black-thrash? … Read More
North-East England-based death metallers Horrified are about to have their second album ‘Of Despair’ released on CD by Stormspell Records. It’s an album that sees the band shifting musical direction and fully embracing their Swedish influences, taking the listener back to the mid-’90s evoking the atmosphere of albums such as ‘Far Away … Read More
With new album ‘Darkness Drips Forth’ out now on Relapse, we sent Kat Gillham to interview Hooded Menace mainman Lasse Pyykkö, also of Claws and Phlegethon. With Hooded Menace clearly his main band these days we asked the Finnish master of doom about letting other people in on his long-running death/doom project … Read More
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