Album Review: Iron Altar – Promethean

Iron Altar are a band I discovered some years ago at a gig in Edinburgh, a city they call home. They were supporting an Italian friend of mine, touring with his band Pulvis Et Umbra, and I liked them enough to buy a t-shirt. As is the way with the small, independent acts they release music sporadically and pop up at venues as

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Album Review: Shade Empire – Sunholy

Well over two decades into their musical journey, and a long six years since fifth album Poetry of the Ill-Minded, Finns Shade Empire come storming back into focus with their sixth long player Sunholy. Nine songs of epic symphonic extremity, the band have managed to blend the beauty and brutality which has become their tradema

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Album Review: When Rivers Meet – Aces Are High

When a band you love announces that their next album is going to be a bit of a departure from what has gone before, it can cause some concern. Fans often want to hear more of what they like and can react negatively to too much change. I, on the other hand, generally like it when a band pushes themselves

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Album Review: Electric Six – Turquoise

Can it really be 20 years ago that those Detroit rascals Electric Six regaled Top of the Pops with “Gay Bar”, and then “Danger! High Voltage”, from their debut album Fire? Well, apparently, a check of the calendar confirms that in 2023, it is indeed two decades since one of the best debut albums of all time was released.

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Album Review: Empire State Bastard – Rivers of Heresy

What happens when you cross two members of Biffy Clyro with Slayer’s Dave Lombardo for a new band which you call Empire State Bastard and the album Rivers of Heresy? The filthiest album you’ll hear all year, that’s what. It’s a name and ethos which is so confrontational, so provocative

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Album Review: Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons – Kings of the Asylum

A new album from Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons feels a little overdue given the last one was released almost three years ago. But when you consider that they’re always playing somewhere in Europe or the UK, it’s nothing short of a miracl

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Album Review: Asking Alexandria – Where Do We Go From Here?

This is going to be a quickie review as I'm still ploughing through Bloodstock interviews, but wanted to get something up about this impressive release.

Asking Alexandria are a band I know of, but never really got into. No reason, other than so many other bands out there tha

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Album Review: Alice Cooper – Road

An Alice Cooper album is always one worth paying attention to, especially given that he's managed far more hits than misses over a (Hey) Stoopid-ly long career. His last release, Detroit Stories, was genuinely something special and ranks as one of his best for so many reasons. Road goes for another themed approach, but musically is

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Album Review: Knife – Heaven Into Dust

Frantic, frenetic, frenzied blackened thrash metal. Yep, this is Knife, the extreme speed metallers from Marburg, Germany whose entire delivery is so retro that you wonder if they are truly aware of what year we are living in.

This is Knife’s second album, following hard on the heels of debut Knife that arrived in 2021. It ki

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Album Review: Mammoth WVH – Mammoth II

Mammoth WVH is a name that should be fairly familiar to a slew of the rock crowd by now. The Wolfgang Van Halen-led band seems to be the go-to band when you need an opener on a massive tour in arenas or stadia. Opening for the likes of Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Alter Bridge, and Mötley Crüe plus performing at the Taylor Haw

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EP Review: THEIA – The Wet Die Young

THEIA aren’t exactly new to our pages, having stumbled on them at a Wildfire many years ago and taking to their big, brash power trio hard rock. However, they’re not the first band to revamp themselves, downsizing to a duo and changing their sound quite drastically. Just like that Wildfire, when they opened for The Virginmarys at th

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Album Review: Sam Millar – More Cheese Please

The joy of music is that it comes in so many shapes and forms. The album I reviewed before Sam Millar’s debut solo record More Cheese Please was a million miles away from his style. But they both touched a nerve, both held my interest, and both engaged my respect for the artists involved. Music is truly an art

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Album Review: Tegmentum – Evolvement

I’d heard nothing about Tegmentum until I read a feature on them in the rather excellent Fistful of Metal magazine recently. Drawn in by the combination of guitarist Michael Ball, vocalist Chelsea Murphy (Dawn of Ouroboros, Caillieach Calling), bassist Kenji Tsunami and Fallujah drummer Andrew Baird, this promised to be a meldin

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Album Review: Godthrymm – Distortions

Following on from their widely lauded debut, epic doom metallers Godthrymm return with the second part of the visions trilogy with Distortions.

Starting off proceedings "As Titans", it doesn't take long before it delves into the despondent tones and at eleven and a half minutes, it gives a really good indication of the albu

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Album Review: Slipknot – Live at MSG

Another one out now, due to it being dropped in our laps with late notice... but hastily grabbed and shoved on the turntable! The vinyl version of Slipknot's incredible Live at Madison Square Garden show arrives and a belter of a live recording it is.

One look at the tracklist shows a fairly classic selection, from opener "(si

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Album Review: Skálmöld – Ýdalir

When we talked to Skálmöld in Glasgow a few months ago, they were frustratingly tight-lipped about the new album they had just finished recording. No new tracks were being premiered on the tour due to the band being complete perfectionists and not risking it until they could actually play them properly. So we just had to wait.

We got t

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Album Review: Kataklysm – Goliath

Once again returning to deliver unapologetic waves of sneering death metal Kataklysm return with their fifteenth studio album Goliath.

Opening in a style which has very much been their way for over three decades, "Dark Wings of Deception" contains a multitude of drop tuned guitars and unrelenting drum patterns. This is followed up

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Album Review: Urne – A Feast on Sorrow

If 2021’s Serpent & Spirit rightly sent ripples through the post metal world, then the sophomore album from London trio Urne should shake the very foundations. It’s a deeply personal release, acutely focused on experiences that frontman Joe Nally has shouldered in recent times.

There’s little to cheer here. A reflection on the

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Album Review: Crypta – Shades of Sorrow

2021’s debut by Brazilian’s Crypta was sufficiently good for me to buy it on vinyl. Now, whether it was the pandemic which allowed me to have enough loose change to shell out, or the enchanting way that four ladies, two formerly of Nervosa, could strip the paint off the living room walls with their bruising death metal, I’m n

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Album Review: From Ashes to New – Blackout

Late in the day with release tomorrow, but I happened to click a link in a promo email to the video for "Armageddon" (embedded below) and realised it had been some time since I'd heard from this bunch. OK, so we featured one their songs in our Xmas roundup last year and I reviewed The Future back in 2018, but Fr

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