New Album ‘Mutants’ featuring Stephen Brodsky (Cave In), Ben Koller (Converge) and Jeff Matz (High On Fire), Due In July. Punk Rock and Metal superheroes Mutoid Man, the venerable trio consisting of Cave In vocalist/guitarist Steven…
There are peaks and troughs within every scene and the heavy music scene of South Wales is no different. There have been some ecstatic high periods where lots of bands from different genres have all…
I first came across Body Count in 1992, when their self-titled debut was released. This was a big moment in heavy metal music because popular rapper Ice-T was the front man for BC. Rap metal…
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…
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,…
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…
I’m a bit late getting this review done (Sorry Tim), but not as late as the actual release of this DVD! Comprising of two almost identical sets – one from the Fillmore in Philadelphia from…
The Stockholm power trio that is Grand Magus haven’t put out a bad album. That my friends is a fact. Their combination of traditional heavy metal, doom and blues rock has proved to be a…
Fusing metal and punk is nothing new, but it still manages to wind up purists in both camps, which is all the more reason to encourage it in my book! When it\’s done well (say…Discharge)…
So to start this review I decided it would be best to put down the definition of apoptosis for those that do not know what it means. Apoptosis: The death of cells which occurs as…
