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Album Review : Venomous Concept – Kick Me Silly VC III

January 8, 2016 No Comments

Much like the elusive eclipse, the gathering of Metal’s pedigree is often sparing. Coming together for their third outing we once again welcome back our noisy freakshow that is Venomous Concept. A conglomerate of Grindcore big hitters with half of Napalm Death in the form of the seemingly limitlessly busy Shane Embury, drummer Danny Herrera, bassist of Corrupt Moral Altar current touring Napalm guitarist John Cooke and finally Brutal Truth bruiser come cowboy Kevin Sharp.

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Album Review : Ignite – A War Against You

January 6, 2016 No Comments

The amount of change within a decade is truly astounding. In the span of just a few years Germany hosted the World Cup, one of the biggest social media sites ever Twitter is launched and the birth of the iPhone. Already with the massive advances in technology we find ourselves capable of doing things we never thought possible. Laying the foundations firmly with their now cult classic Our Darkest Days, the slow moving quintet start it all over again with the release of their ten years in the making A War Against You.

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Album Review : Baroness – Purple

December 17, 2015 No Comments

Like the colours on the visual spectrum we experience life through it’s trials and tribulations. Beginning as red headstrong individuals eventually the cocksure attitude moves into more calmer territories. No doubt still confident but quietly so, we enter the Blue spectrum of life. Comfortably gliding through life we see the metaphorical Yellow’s and Green’s of complacency and comfort until being violently shaken with the realisation that life is not as safe as we may think. We the individual are far from invincible.

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Album Review : Sikth – Opacities

December 4, 2015 No Comments

As the modern day of technology seems to be all consuming it was only a matter of time until it found its way into the realm of music. Now with Axe Fx patches here and profiling there it seems that many of the band’s in the modern day Metal scene could be seen as similar. Rewind some ten years to the small seaside town of Brighton where six Britons were crafting a sound that was ten years in the making. Releasing their eponymous cult classic Death of a Dead Day tragically the band broke up. Slowly but sure accruing a multitude of fans aided by the mystery of the ever possible beacon of a reunion the silence was at last broken last year. Following their brilliant performance at Download the band embarked on a tour, stupefied by the success the band resolved that they would be back. Now tomorrow the band will be unleashing their upgraded EP come Mini album on the world, was it worth the wait?

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Album Review : Culture Killer – Throes Of Mankind

November 30, 2015 No Comments

Moving further and further into the future Hardcore itself as a genre is largely somewhat of a psseé subject. Having the classic Biohazard’s, Terror’s and Agnostic Front‘s is all well and good but there can only be a finite amount of music being put out. Not to mention the genre is a fairly simple affair leading to many of the band’s albums sounding samey. Enter the year of 2015 where it seems that Hardcore is getting a serious rethink, among the likes of Twitching Tongues another leader to drag Hardcore kicking and screaming through the broken glass of Metal is Culture Killer.

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Album Review: Far East Dizain – Tonick Dizain

November 17, 2015 No Comments

Japan has produced some excellent metal over the years and has slowly but surely gained some worldwide fame. The sound of metal bands in Japan has become uniquely identifiable, but much so that many of the bands adopt that sound as a standard, afraid to venture outside of it. Leda, guitarist of Babymetal, has never thought twice about venturing outside the norm to demonstrate his flair and brilliance in guitar and songwriting proven in his brilliant projects of past. Now he brings a brand new, more extreme project to the table in Far East Dizain.

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Album Review : Intronaut – The Direction Of Last Things

November 12, 2015 No Comments

As originality appears to be more and more of a mirage in today’s world, the art of the unconventional breeds difference. Having only been around for eleven years, a mere footnote in the life of a band particularly of a progressive nature, Intronaut release their brand new album. Opting for a different style to their previous record,the new offering shows another side of Intronaut that has lay dormant for sometime now. Deciding to awaken their primal States the band have tapped into heavier aspects without compromising the progressive nature of the band itself.

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Album Review : Firespawn – Shadow Realms

November 10, 2015 No Comments

Death Metal isn’t quite the same as it used to be. With bands appearing left right and center the genre is an ever changing entity. Deciding that their respective bands just weren’t a destructive enough output L.G. Petrov, the man behind the inaugural grunts of Entombed, Victor Brandt Entombed’s new guitarist, Unleashed axe man Fredrik Folkare, bringing up the rear with A. Impaler form Folkare’s sister band Necrophobic and finally sticks man Matte Modin we welcome the age of Firespawn.