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Louise started Iron Fist in 2012 along with Will Palmer. She'd previously edited Terrorizer and would gladly never listen to a grindcore band again in her life. She's happiest when doing '80s Heart songs at karaoke, especially after a bottle of Baileys.

Louise’s Posts:

ETERNAL CHAMPION – ARMOR OF IRE

It will be no shock to those who know the tastes of our editor, that Eternal Champion’s ‘Armor Of Ire’ has been on repeat. It’s a tick-box of heavy metal delights. But why? After much deliberation, it was decided that we would try and scientifically dissect why a debut album, … Read More

OATHBREAKER – RHEIA

Last week saw a presidential candidate casually rebutting anger over his sexual provocation as “locker room talk” and renowned human rights lawyer Amal Clooney was reported to have “had a tantrum” in court. It is becoming ever clearer that women are still made to feel invisible and disenfranchised when it … Read More

11 PARANOIAS – RELIQUARY FOR A DREAMED OF WORLD

Ever since a Swiss scientist wondered what what happen if he ate this chemical compound he was working on back in 1943, musicians have been imbibing Lyserg-säure-diäthylamid and recording its effects sonically to tape. 11 Paranoias don’t write pretty songs about pretty colours though. ‘Reliquary For A Dreamed Of … Read More

PLAY AND RECORD: THE OKKULTOKRATI MIXTAPE

Snotty, brash, Entombed and Darkthrone worshipping metalpunks OKKULTOKRATI are about to lay waste to the UK next week with a short tour of London, Sheffield and Birmingham. With a new video for ‘Magic People’ from their blistering new album ‘Raspberry Dawn’ just released we caught up with the band to find … Read More

PLAY AND RECORD: THE BAT MIXTAPE

When we came up with the idea of doing a Mix Tape idea for the Iron Fist website there were three people we knew we needed to ask. Jason Decay and Ian Chains from Cauldron were a given, at least one of them were bound to put Bleak House on there, … Read More

PLAY AND RECORD: THE DARK FOREST MIXTAPE

Last week, Black Country heavy metal minstrels Dark Forest unveiled their fourth album ‘Beyond The Veil’ (Cruz Del Sur). Whipping up stirring paeans to nature, the seasons and the mighty, gallant genre of power metal, these Brits deservedly took their place among the great and the good who are putting … Read More

INTO BATTLE: THE DAHMERS

“We were formed after a wild halloween party in late 2011. Karlsson [vocals/guitar] had a couple of songs recorded that I thought sounded cool and suggested that we rehearsed them to see how it all sounded with a full band. We met at a garage the next day hungover as … Read More

PLAY AND RECORD: THE HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE MIX-TAPE

We don’t want to make such a bold statement just past the halfway point, but Jesus H Cobbett, the latest Hammers Of Misfortune album, ‘Dead Revolution’ (via Metal Blade) will be hard to top in the end of year polls. If last album ’17th Street’ was HOM gone even more … Read More

PLAY AND RECORD: THE GOLDEN GRASS MIXTAPE

Providing the hazy, laid-back, psychedelic rock anthems of the summer, Brooklyn’s The Golden Grass have been on the road since the release of April’s ‘Coming Back Again’ (Listenable Records). Desperate to know what was on their stereo when recording their second full-length (they even told us which songs … Read More

HIT THE LIGHTS: KING DIAMOND AND ANGEL WITCH GIVE LONDON A MASTERCLASS IN HEAVY METAL

KING DIAMOND + ANGEL WITCH THE FORUM, LONDON JUNE 2016

It’s been a long time since since King Diamond played a theatre show in London. The last time was a sweltering night in June 2006, yet almost a decade to the day he’s back and this time he’s not some cult, underground curiosity. … Read More

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