Brothers of the Sonic Cloth – S/T CD (Neurot Recordings) The North Western trio featuring TAD’s eponymous frontman produce a suitably heavy debut offering of Doom infused Sludge, with an underlying punk rawness. Barely picking…
Six Organs of Admittance – Hexadic CD (Drag City) Experimental is the watchword here. On first listen opening track ‘The Ram’ brought to mind a Film Noir soundtrack filtered through the twisted imaginings of John…
Violent Arrest – Life Inside The Western Bloc /Distorted View – CD/Vinyl Album (Boss Tunage) An interesting little package here with the 10 tracks of the ‘Distorted View’ part of the album being the last…
Destination Venus – All Aboard… CD (Self Released www.facebook.com/pages/Destination-Venus) A cheeky, quirky slice of UK punk with something of a nautical theme. The opening track reminds me a 70s/80s comedy show which I can’t quite…
Leftover Crack – Fuck World Trade CD (Fat Wreck) Seminal second album from the NYC Anarcho Ska-Core Crusties gets the re-release treatment from Fat Wreck. It’s probably the bands most eclectic release incorporating elements of…
New track streaming + preorders available! Dutch death metal practitioners, APOPHYS – who feature within their bestial ranks members of God Dethroned, Prostitute Disfigurement, Detonation and Toxocara among others – are readying to release their…
Founded in the Finnish capital 25 years ago, THE 69 EYES spawned a total of ten full-length records and an additional selection of live, best-of and re-mastered albums. Throughout the band’s legacy THE 69 EYES…
Hamburg\’s Melodic Hardcore heroes in LIGHT YOUR ANCHOR just launched the first teaser for their upcoming album \”Homefires\”. The record will be out 3rd of April via Let it Burn Records and Acuity.Music. Watch the…
Black Bow Records (the brainchild of Jon Davis: guitarist / vocalist of northern doom outfit Conan), announce the signing of Headless Cross & Undersmile to the label and look forward to the release of albums…
Following teasers from Revolver Magazine and Invisible Oranges, today Vice Magazine offers up EXHUMED\’s Gore Metal: A Necrospective 1998 – 2015 full-length in all its gruesome glory. A genre-altering slab of venomous, jaw-jarring death-metal, Gore…
Poison Idea, one of the most infamous and instantly recognisable names in hardcore punk, are to release their first new album since 2006’s Latest Will and Testament. Southern Lord, responsible for releasing the Poison Idea…
The Runaways – Queens Of Noise CD (Cherry Red Records) As well as looking good, this female quintet play damn fine rock ‘n’ roll. Flecks of what was to become heavy rock, and even scrapping…
