Recent Reviews
Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip- St.Vitus but maybe more of an Acid King psychedelic doom with some elements of Sleep thrown in. The more stoner elements of this band remind me of a great band called Sgt. Sunshine.
Below The Fall - Below The Fall (EP)- They don't make 'em like this anymore. And that's a pity, because Below The Fall's debut 2-tracker is a perfectly brilliant nostalgia trip, that quite literally parties like it's 1999.
The Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder- I started writing a typical review of this album, but it sounded like such an untypical album, I thought I'd approach it from a different stance...
Flatlands - Flatlands (EP)- These plucky boys have self-released a very special package of three new songs
Beard of Zeuss - Beard of Zeuss EP- Beard of Zeuss are angry. Very angry.
Year Of The Flood - A Utopian View- The idea of prophecy is one that comes up alot in metal these days, prediction of a horrible future is nothing new perhaps, but becomes strangely appealing when things are falling apart in the real world.
Domes Of Silence - Hunter S.T. [Single]- There’s one word always hits me every time I listen to the ‘Domes, whether that be live in a sweatbox pub or moping around in the drizzle with my headphones, “textbook”.
Todd - Big Ripper- If I'm honest, I'm not nearly nerdy enough to get this. Dear God, I tried, I really did.
Astrohenge - Astrohenge- Step 1: Come up with one fucking awesome band name...
Witchsorrow - Witchsorrow- After five long years of plying their grim trade up and down this rainy isle, Hampshire's Witchsorrow have made an album and it's well worth the wait.
Cathedral - The Guessing Game- “20 years it’s been, what will the future bring?” is the beard-stroking, and slightly downcast, ending sentiment to this, Cathedral’s 9th stirring of the cauldron of doom.
Grifter - The Simplicity of the Riff is Key EP- It’s just the plain SIMPLICITY that is the key here on this latest outing from the South-West’s finest purveyors of dirty old good-time Rawk n’ Roll!
Rob Himself - Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes- Sweet musings on everything from space travel to defending his childhood treehouse from the march of progress
Ramesses - Take The Curse- Quake with mortal dread, you puny mortal fuck. Ramesses crush the jugular with this, their second full-length studio album.
Conan - Horseback Battle Hammer- First off - what a fucking brilliant name. Why no band has been called Conan before, apart from some piss-poor South American rock band of the eighties, is a bit of a mystery.
Gringo - Demo 2010- There is an unwritten rule that I believe to be true, that all bands from the Midlands who dedicate themselves to the power of Thee Riffe must follow the word of the Sabbath.
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