Metal Blade Records is proud to announce the addition of KETZER to it\’s ranks! KETZER (German for \”heretic\”) is a highly professional and extreme metal outfit hailing from Cologne, Germany and ready to set the…
Punk USA – The Rise And Fall Of Lookout! Records – Kevin Prested (Microcosm Publishing) Why do some punk / hardcore labels have a magical ring to them? It\’s not that Revelation has better releases…
Bitter End – Illusions Of Dominance (Deathwish) Governments think they control the people, mankind thinks it controls nature, Google thinks it controls the internet. It\’s all an illusion. We\’re being told we\’re being watched 24/7,…
Demon Lung – A Dracula (Candlelight) Las Vegas is not exactly the first place that springs to mind when talking about intensely sad doom. Or maybe Demon Lung are the house band of the devil…
Kaukasus – I (Autumnsongs) It\’s interesting to compare Rhys Marsh\’s role on \’Sentiment\’ to that on Kaukasus. The first record was a one-man project. Very cool, very mature spun out rock songs, but as with…
Prowler – From The Shadows (Slaney) Forget about these bands trying to reinvent the wheel. Prowler would rather return to the time before the wheel was even invented and just party to old school thrash,…
Waiting For – The Hexen (XL Drums) I have done my very best to get to the core of Belgian metal band Waiting For. You can call it a coincidence or not, but I am…
Black Sabbath – Vol. 4 Other than \”Changes\” AKA \”I\’m Going to Change This,\” Vol. 4 is a perfect record. I like to imagine what it must have been like to hear \”Supernaut\” played back…
I’ve written science fiction, fantasy, horror and slipstream reviews for the Guardian for almost a decade, and before that infrequent pieces for Infinity Plus, Paperback Inferno and Vector. In that time I’ve covered hundreds of…
Well the hardest part of this article was the main selection as I have been limited with only 10 pieces… That means lot of great records have to be skipped for this time. Let’s explore…
Thanks to the super-cool folks at Fetch Publicity, and to celebrate the DVD and Blu-Ray release of ‘It Follows’, we’ve got a limited edition ‘It Follows’ shirt to giveaway, and so if you want to…
Society (Arrow Video) The late Eighties grist mill churned out so many shocking horror films – many of them shockingly bad, it has to be said – it took something that was a different shade…
