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  • Volbeat – Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie

    The Danish Elvis metallers (or whatever the hell you want to call them!) Volbeat released their sixth album, ‘Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie’ exactly a week ago. I’ve been meaning to release this review sooner, but truth to be told,...

    • Posted 9 years ago

  • Taberah – Welcome To The Crypt

    ‘Welcome To The Crypt’, the new EP from Tasmania’s Taberah is in one word eclectic. At once familiar, and then wholly foreign; ‘Welcome To The Crypt’ treads grounds previously tread, and then those roads less explored. Kicking things off...

    • Posted 9 years ago

  • Greytomb – A Perpetual Descent

    There’s not enough truly atmospheric black metal in Australia so when bands like Melbourne’s Greytomb pop up it’s always exciting, and their pre-recording live performances were absolutely mesmerising. Born as a solo project by guitarist J. Angus called Subterranean...

    • Posted 9 years ago

  • Daemon Foetal Harvest – Beasts of Tribulation

    Thanks to the advent of the glorious, hideous monstrosity we call the internet, it’s now easier than ever to access underground, juicy death metal releases. Unfortunately, that also exposes you to the underside of the genre, and all the...

    • Posted 9 years ago

  • Remission – Genocide

    Genocide is the debut release from the Perth thrash quartet Remission. The title track opens up the EP in style and from the get go it’s the duel guitar attack of Ferdinand Handojo and Jacson Robb which strikes me as...

    • Posted 9 years ago

  • Omnipresence – Thanatophobia

    The mere album title for this band alone intrigued me from the outset. ‘Thanatophobia’ was a word I was unfamiliar with going in, and I was fascinated to discover the phobia deals with an anxiety over one’s own mortality; a...

    • Posted 9 years ago

  • The Levitation Hex – Cohesion

    When I put together a review I’ll often start the process by jotting down any obvious influences or stylistic similarities between the music I’m reviewing and certain iconic albums or genre defining acts. Later on I’ll draw on these...

    • Posted 9 years ago

  • Godless – Centuries of Decadence

    Hailing from the historical city of Hyderabad, India come the heavy sounds of Godless, a rising death metal band that incorporate an array of sounds and influences into their brand of heavy music. Mixed and mastered by none other...

    • Posted 9 years ago

  • Earth Rot – Chthonian Virtues

    Earth Rot burst onto the West Australian scene in 2014 as a local super group of sorts; featuring past and present members from highly rated acts such as Sensory Amusia, Advent Sorrow & Inanimacy (amongst others). In the time since...

    • Posted 10 years ago

  • Catacombs – Sin

    Often when albums are first released, you can glean quite a lot about it purely from the song titles alone; the types of ideas or themes it may be exploring, or where it plans to move emotionally. But in...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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