22nd November 2024
Sometimes it’s just killer album art that knocks me over the edge to give an album a try. A sword thrust in the bleeding sky did the trick. More important, the band describing their influences. […]
27th January 2025
Raw metal sounds spewing out of Leeds UK. A crossover throwback. Think golden age of thrash/punk/metal sounds, think Slayer Haunting the Chapel era screeching hellfire conjuring guitar wails, Exodus, Testament, Cro Mags, influenced and reminiscent […]
24th February 2025
Metal in L.A. used to be all about big hair, lip gloss and leather studded outfits. Appearance somehow was more important than songcraft. Underneath the popular L.A. Sunset Strip scene, a rabid thrash metal underground, […]
21st April 2025
Several weeks, a tough combination, lack of inspiration to discover new bands, leaning on the tried-and-true groups to feed my musical habit, plus the handful of the new albums sampled nothing grabbed my attention. Then, […]
19th May 2025
The first few months of 2025 haven’t produced many new albums that capture my aural attention. Summer festival season is kicking off soon, hopefully there will be some new heavy rock albums soon. The upside: […]
9th February 2026
Iceland, the land of fire and ice, rocks. Sleeping Giant native to the arctic island got heavy metal in their veins. Musically it’s a ripper. Heavy. Riff packed, guitar pyrotechnics. A smashing battery. Metal fans […]
7th April 2026
Ancient Greece echoes down the halls of time, reverberating in the 2020s. Heavy rock music is alive and well in the Hellenistic world. The last few years the land of Alexander the Great is conquering […]