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Album Reviews

  • Decryptus – The Necrotic Design

    Listening to the second EP from New South Wales band Decryptus, The Necrotic Design, can’t help but make me think back to around 2005 when I first began exploring Perth’s local metal scene and coming across bands like Pathogen...

    • Posted 10 years ago

  • In Malice’s Wake – Light Upon The Wicked

    From the opening beat, this album forcefully grabs you by the throat, glares into your eyes, and holds you there indefinitely. There are only so many ways one can try and rewrite the feeling of being completely blown away,...

    • Posted 10 years ago

  • Dead River Runs Dry – Hierophants of the Storm

    Ironically, in stark contrast to the imagery evoked when thinking of the genre, one of the most prominent genres done well in Australian metal is black metal. Whenever listening to Aussie black metal, it’s almost impossible to say that...

    • Posted 10 years ago

  • Horizons Edge – Heavenly Realms

    One of the earliest and best things I realised about this album was just how well everything blends. The music, vocals, and instrumentation assimilates into the mix so seamlessly it’s almost effortless. From vocalist Kat Sproule’s unique and engaging...

    • Posted 10 years ago

  • Serious Beak – Ankaa

    Serious Beak were a breath of fresh air back in 2011 when they dropped the jarring explosion of odd math whatever-it-was that was their debut album Huxwhukw. It was actually something new and different which, whether the band felt...

    • Posted 10 years ago

  • Parkway Drive – Ire

    Anybody who hasn’t been living in a sound proof room for the past ten years in Australia should at least have heard a few Parkway Drive songs. They’ve put in enough hard yards to have become a household name...

    • Posted 10 years ago

  • Ritual Killer – Exterminance

    The main thing that piqued my interest about black metal band Ritual Killer was that it was composed of nearly all ex-members of blackened thrash metal band, Goatwhore. Expecting the precise, catchy and melodic riffs of the latter, I...

    • Posted 10 years ago

  • Windhand – Grief’s Infernal Flower

    This is Windhand‘s third album and in my opinion their best so far. People who enjoy Windhand’s music will be pleased to hear their slow, heavy, rockin’-riff-filled music is back. This time around though, I feel there is more...

    • Posted 10 years ago

  • Deluge – Æther

    Quick, name one French metal band. If you answered Gojira, congratulations, you’re about as knowledgeable as I am when it comes to this European country’s metal scene. Hopefully Deluge’s latest album, Æther, will put another coordinate on the map...

    • Posted 10 years ago

  • Whoretopsy – Never Tear Us Apart

    Hard hitting Melbourne death grind 5 piece Whoretopsy slam back hard with new 10 track full length release Never Tear Us Apart. There’s an old adage that “you should never judge a book by its cover” and this album...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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