That place where ethics and scientific boundaries meet, has always been the basis of Frankenstein novels right from Mary Shelley’s original, but this is explored even deeper and in contemporary fashion by writer Paul Cornell…
In which the sexier half of the Middle Age Crew gets down and dirty with Weston Ochse’s ‘A Hole In The World’, Young Hellboy: The Hidden Land, Black Hammer Visions Volume One. The Captain Bririan…
I wonder what the label doom actually means? If someone were to call Sorcerer power metal, or just old-fashioned melodic metal, that would sum this band up as easily as the aforementioned doom tag they’ve…
Since 2017, something has been lurking in the shadows around Merseyside, snarling from the unseen corners with a piercing horror-metal atmosphere; that something is Video Nasties, and they\’re ready to strike with their moral-panic inducing…
Ever since I discovered Metal, and then swiftly Death Metal, in the mid-nineties Entombed were there. If you want to make me nostalgic for my misspent youth just stick Left Hand Path, Clandestine or Wolverine…
I only recently became aware of the Throat Punch Metal page on FaceBook. Somebody invited me to like it, something I do for anything musical just as a matter of course. Very quickly I realized…
Many of you may not be familiar with the band Tetrarch (a band which I only recently became familiar with myself) or their guitarist, Diamond Rowe. Diamond has the distinction of being not only female…
Back in 2005, the stoner/doom scene was becoming saturated with the same old slow heavy riff/ growled vocals combo and was desperately looking for something fresh. Out of nowhere came Torche from Florida whose heavy…
Every now and then you stumble across a band whose musical influences seem so disparate that they shouldn’t even be able to exist in the same room, let alone be stitched together into some dark,…
There was a time, an incredibly brief period around the release of Possessed, when Venom were, for me and a couple of my friends, the pinnacle of musical rebellion. That said, if during said brief…
If you’re already a fan of Viking metallers Amon Amarth you’re well aware of the ferocious attack that is their music. Fafner’s Gold gets this album off to a blazing start and things keep pounding…
This coming May 31st sees the release of ‘In Nomine Satanas’ via BMG – a deluxe vinyl boxset that celebrates Venom’s 40th anniversary and features the original Neat Records recordings from their 1981 debut ‘Welcome To Hell’ to ‘Eine Kleine…
