Portrait – Burn the World (Review and Interview)
Burn the World is a dark romp through the metal of three and a half decades ago, played immaculately, but with some serious fire.
Temple of Void – Lords of Death (Review and Interview)
This is death metal played in the darkest recesses of a post-apocalyptic doom soundscape.
Undergang – Misantropologi (Review and Interview)
Feral creation is called forth to drag the listener bodily into the filthy pits of void from which the band springs forth.
Centenary – …Where No Lives Matter (Review and Interview)
A dark creature arises from the post-apocalyptic wastes.
Broken Hope – Mutilated and Assimilated (Review and Interview)
There is a malicious streak that shows forth here in ominous riffs, there in embedded grind, and yet again in ambient samples, which all serve to drag the listener by their exposed entrails into the abyss that is this album.
Candle – Demo 2016 (Review and Interview)
See that guy? The one who looks a little dangerous? That is the personification of Candle.
Bison – You Are Not The Ocean You Are The Patient (Review and Interview)
Bison take rage and violence and make it atmospheric and calming. They take beauty and make it viscerally deadly.
Full Scale Riot Interview
An interview with Full Scale Riot.
Herida Profunda Profile and Interview
The quartet, split between Poland and the UK, play the kind of grind that I love. That is, they get all in your face and scream their leftist politics, spittle flying.
She Must Burn – Grimoire (Review and Interrogation)
Entwining brutality and beauty, with eerie keyboards and unique rhythms, seeming to blend genres with ease.