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  • Cursed Earth – Cycles of Grief: The Complete Collection

    If five years ago you told me that grindpowerHM2violencecore was going to be the next big ticket genre, hip with the younguns, I would’ve found your girlfriend in the pit and crowd killed both of you fucking poser cowards....

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Sons Of Apollo – Psychotic Symphony

    Apollo is the son Zeus and the Greek god of music. The aptly named band Sons of Apollo, is a new supergroup consisting of some of the most revered, veteran musicians in the business; Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater, countless others),...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Shadowqueen – Living Madness

    From the moment opener Ruin Me veritably bursts from the speakers, you know you’re in for a wild and ballsy rock n roll ride across 11 tracks on the newie from Melbourne female-fronted three-piece Shadowqueen. This is their sophomore...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Cradle of Filth – Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness of Decay

    Cradle of Filth, one of the most polarising bands in metal’s history. From their symphonic black metal roots in the early 90’s, to their more Gothic even mainstream rock sound of recent times, they have been simultaneously loved and...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Toehider – Good

    When a band calls their album ‘Good’, the obvious question that arises when you listen to it is ‘does it live up to its title?’ The answer in the case of the newie from Melbourne prog masters Toehider is...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Diablo Blvd. – Zero Hour

    I missed the chance to chat to Alex Agnew, the vocalist of Belgian dark groove rock outfit Diablo Blvd. due to illness recently. I can assure the reader I was disappointed that I didn’t have the opportunity to ask...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Satyricon – Deep Calleth upon Deep

    Sigurd Wongraven AKA Satyr and Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad AKA Frost have been performing blackish metal since at least Dark Medieval Times (’94). By ’94, to preface your bands brand of heavy metal as ‘black metal’ was not so much an...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Enslaved – E

    Enslaved is a Norwegian extreme metal band formed in 1991. The band started their career as a traditional black metal band but over time their sound has undergone significant change.  These days it would be fair to say they have...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • The Darkness – Pinewood Smile

    I personally left the old-school, blues-based hard rock sound literally decades ago. It’s a style that has been beaten to death, had its lifeless corpse attempted to be resuscitated several times, only to be put down again, over and...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Epica – The Solace System EP

    It’s an interesting move for this band to release an EP at this stage of their career. They have released a full-lengther virtually every two years since 2003, and maybe they just wanted to break this cycle up a...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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