Friday 29th August I set off to see the last ever live performance of UK doom legends My Silent Wake. It was taking place the following day at the One For Sorrow festival @ the Junction, Plymouth.
The 20th February, 2026, will see the release of BELZEBONG’s The End Is High EP; in the meantime track ‘420 Horseman’ is available for a listen and to download for pre-orders. Continue reading
‘Hider’ entices the listener along a path leading towards an enchanted forest; the opening vocals and guitar the deep green vines that intertwine all across the way. The trees can be seen, but are behind a translucent veil that hangs like white candy floss and sparks here and there with specks of gold. When the veil is reached and passed through Continue reading
Bozos are a booze-fuelled rocket of behemoth rock n roll; an unstoppable juggernaut of brain-shaking sonic bliss. It doesn’t matter if you want to bang your head, bounce in the mosh pit, punch a fist or boogie on down, Bozos have got you covered every second of six track E.P. Frozen Death (the band’s third E.P., not debut as this post initially said in the title – sorry!).
Title track ‘Frozen Death’ opens with a Gotham City vibe before breaking into a sound dirtier than Jimmy Carr’s sense of humour and sexier than his mum the night she conceived him. Continue reading
On Friday 2nd May GNOD and White Hills brought the utterly incredible Drop Out collaboration to Bristol’s Strange Brew for a sold out show.
I first caught White Hills live in the early 2010s at the Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, having a brief chat with Continue reading
A Morbid Parody of Justice opens with ‘Pornocratia’; a slow methodical melodic track that carries itself like a warm wind drifting across Spanish plateaus. A sombre trombone adds an element of Western Movie stand-off that subtlety gives the Iberian breeze greater gusto.
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BE N!CE’s debut EP WHERE AM I? opens with ‘GET A JOB’ a track reminiscent of Jack of Jill’s ‘When I Am Queen’. Though musically this is a little faster while carrying a greater weight; the latter in much part thanks to the powerful Continue reading
Unusual for me to be lost for words, but that I fully was when opening an email a few weeks back claiming to be from a major record label. It asked if I wanted to be involved in an incredible project involving one of the biggest bands around. It turned out to be true, the band in question wanting to make their last ever release special for a number of reasons, one of which being only asking a handful of independent reviewers to review it pre release. Continue reading
Disruptive Influence’s debut album Brink of War is for all intents a ‘best of’ of previous material recorded by the band’s current line-up. If the band’s original incarnation taking place in 2011 begs the question, has it been worth the wait? then the answer is, Continue reading
The last few days have seen two bands from UK’s punk scene drop videos so scorching hot they more than make-up for the utterly dismal summer. Continue reading
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