I Fight Bears – Gold – Digital Download (Self)
Yes it’s the Spandau Ballet song, which the South Wales Metallers debuted at the Bridgend Tattoo Shop Xmas party last year (along with an immense cover of Dio’s ‘Holy Diver’), and it sounds exactly how…
Heavy Metal
From the Vault… Fire From the Gods
I first met Fire From the Gods a few years ago when they were touring with Headbang for the Highway, a tour that was also a “battle of the bands” at every stop. The winner…
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VoiVod – The Wake 2xCD/2xLP Album (Century Media)
From the get go this had me thinking Nothingface era Voi Vod, with its Floyd-esque proggy passages Away’s frantic, tribal drumming and Snake’s unique vocal delivery. In guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain the band really have…
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Chuggernaut – Kodiak (Self)
Self-styled “regressive metal” band Chuggernaut deliver great heavy metal through a range of styles that always seem to have a superb heavy groove. Toeing the line of stoner rock/metal, this Boston Quartet slams through five…
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Beginning – 1.1 (Self)
German band Beginning has dropped a new full-length album entitled 1.1. “Why does this matter?” you may ask. Well, it matters because 1.1 is such an amazing composition of modern heavy metal that is sure…
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Apophis Theory – (X)(C)M(X)CMLII (Self)
Portland, Oregon’s Apophis Theory is not a band I have just recently come across. I am very familiar with their music due to my involvement in the Underground Music Coalition, a FaceBook group dedicated to…
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Parasite – Reverberation (Boss Tuneage)
Sitting here in t-shirt and shorts listening to Parasite, I feel under-dressed. My amygdala* keeps insisting that I should be wearing a bullet belt, studded wristbands, skin tight leather pants, white basketball boots and a…
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Witchsorrow – Hexenhammer (Spinefarm Records(
Following in the path of the forebearers of the scene, Hampshire’s Witchsorrow are doom -proper doom that is, in the vein of Sabbath, Vitus and Pentagram, not the one note/cymbal crash every 10 minutes sort…
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Gygax – Monsteriffic Top Ten
Most of you reading this may already know about me, Eric, bass player and singer with Gygax, but please allow me to introduce one of my best friends and RPG enthusiast, Henry Glasheen. Henry is…
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Desert Storm – Sentinels (APF Records)
Damn, I feel like I’ve just been run over by a juggernaut driven by Big Daddy, then dragged into the centre of a Wrestling ring in which Giant Haystacks then proceeded to drop ten elbows,…
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Fozzy – Judas (Century Media Records)
From their inception as a party covers band, to a bit of a joke band for WWE superstar Chris Jericho, to launch his rock star alter ego Moongoose McQueen on to the world, complete with…
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WARRIOR featuring Vinnie Vincent: Jimmy Waldo: Gary Shea: Hirsh Gardner (HNE Recordings/Cherry Red)
Fans of KISS and anyone who relished the era of all things anthemic and 80s will lap this disc up. The six studio recordings are the gems here; this was to be the future sound…
