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  • Dimmu Borgir – Forces of the Northern Night

    Live albums have pretty much always been hit and miss affairs. Much of it has to do with the production and sound of live albums, some are too slick, some are too raw, it must be difficult to get...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Taberah – Sinner’s Lament

    It is an oft-repeated phrase when a reviewer mentions that a band’s album is a step up from previous releases, and the degree to which this is the case is often also exaggerated a fair bit. To be honest,...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Me And That Man – Songs Of Love And Death

    Adam Darski is a fiercely independent spirit. Better known as Nergal, the front man for black metal’s preeminent representative likely to obtain the mainstream attention in the late teen-naughties, Behemoth. On Songs Of Love And Death, Darski teams with Polish/British...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Royal Thunder – Wick

    It’s essentially impossible to make the perfect album; especially in this day and age when the rock/metal scene spans across a multitude of genres. In saying that, Atlanta’s own Royal Thunder has made their perfect album. Theirs is a...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Solstafir – Berdreyminn

    Originally made up of three friends from Iceland, Aðalbjörn Tryggvason, Halldór Einarsson and Guðmundur Óli Pálmason, Solstifar’s music is as panoramic and as fiercely undulating as their native landscape. Typically Icelandic in nature, Solstifar‘s music is innately hard to...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Damnations Day – A World Awakens

    2017 seems to have started with a frenzy of Australian bands releasing new material. One of the albums which has caught my attention amongst the outpouring of new releases is A World Awakens, the second full-length album from Damnations Day.  ...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Harlott – Extinction

    Harlott are arguably the best Thrash metal band in Australia. Actually, I’ll revise that statement. On the back on their 3rd album Extinction, Harlott are the best Thrash metal band in Australia – Their output over the last 5...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Northlane – Mesmer

    Australia’s Northlane are a great band, and they are also a very clever band, in a number of ways. The way they have kinda burst out of the blue with this, their fourth studio album, without the usual two...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • John Garcia – The Coyote Who Spoke in Tongues

    Way back in ’96, Metallica’s James Hetfield and Jason Newstead were in Australia for a promo tour touting the still divisive Load album series. Both made repeated references to the brilliant Kyuss, whose Blue Cheer inspired song craft certainly...

    • Posted 8 years ago

  • Desecrator – To The Gallows

    Desecrator are a big deal in Australian metal circles. The renowned thrashers from Victoria have hundreds of shows under their belts, including international tours in South East Asia, Europe, Russia, Mexico and Brazil, a live album, and you’d assume a...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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