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Category Archives: PURE METAL (All posts)
Album review: WHITE EMPRESS – Rise Of The Empress
Peaceville Records – Out Now. Unless you have been living under a rock for the last twenty three years you should be able to recognise Paul Allender as the ex-lead guitarist and one of the main composers of the British … Continue reading
Gig review: THE PINEAPPLE THIEF – The O2 Islington Academy, London, 3 December 2014
Ask me to name my favourite albums for 2014 and The Pineapple Thief’s “Magnolia” will certainly feature in my Top 10 list. Even though my introduction to Bruce Soord’s Alternative/Progressive Rock outfit only took place a couple of years ago, … Continue reading
Gig review: ACCEPT – The Forum, London, 27 November 2014
When the last of many attempts to reunite Udo Dirkschneider with the remaining members of Accept folded back in 2009, many fans of the German Heavy Metal combo, myself included, believed that the days of this musical institution were numbered. … Continue reading
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Gig review: BIGELF – The Garage, London, 19 November 2014
Support Acts: Bend Sinister / Jolly Review by Yiannis (John) Stefanis Photos by Yiannis (John) Stefanis Though first formed in Los Angeles twenty three years ago, it took the US trio Bigelf plenty of personal effort and the committed support … Continue reading
Album review: WITCH MOUNTAIN – Mobile Of Angels
Svart Records – Out Now. Female-fronted vintage-sounding bands have been on the rise for quite some time now so you would certainly be excused to think that Witch Mountain may just be another outfit eager to jump into this specific … Continue reading
Album review: NECROHOLOCAUST – Holocaustic Goat Metal
Iron Bonehead – Out Now. Though a huge fan of the Canadian Metal scene since the mid 80s, I admit that the name Necroholocaust meant absolutely nothing to me prior to being granted access to “Holocaustic Goat Metal” – the … Continue reading
Album review: DEATH PENALTY – Death Penalty
Rise Above – Out Now. There are many fans of groove-laden Doom Metal, myself included, who still cannot believe that UK legends Cathedral are no longer with us. During, however, the time that we were left licking our wounds and … Continue reading
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Album review: PHILM – Fire From The Evening Sun
UDR – Out Now. Of the four musicians that make up Slayer’s classic line-up, Dave Lombardo has always stood out as the most artistically gifted and restless. Want proof? Well, apart from the fact that the Californian Thrashers always end … Continue reading
Album review: MUTILATED VETERANS – Necrocrust Warhead
Hells Headbangers – Out Now. Mutilated Veterans are a recently formed Spanish Death/Crust Metal duet which hail from Madrid and whose members have participate in a number of underground projects that large, that this review is unable to accommodate. The … Continue reading
Album review: ELUVEITIE – Origins
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Originally conceived by vocalist Christian “Chrigel” Glanzmann as a purely studio project, Swiss Melodic Death/Folk Metallers Eluveitie have gone a pretty long way since their inception back in 2002. It only took the release of … Continue reading
Album review: ENTOMBED A.D. – Back To The Front
Century Media – Out Now. Funny story; a couple of months ago, I was browsing through the internet when I came across the cover artwork of an album called “Back To The Front” from a band whose name was Entombed … Continue reading
Album review: ENGLISH DOGS – The Thing With Two Heads
Candlelight – Out Now. First formed in October 1981 and performing at the same UK sweaty venues with the likes of GBH & Discharge, Grantham-based Hardcore Punk/Crossover legends English Dogs have experienced numerous member changes over the years. Most fans, … Continue reading
Album review: EASTERN FRONT – Descent Into Genocide
Candlelight – Out Now. Located on the estuary of the River Orwell in beautiful Suffolk, Ipswich is not the kind of place that can openly compete with cities like Birmingham and London in terms of its overall significance in the … Continue reading
Album review: BLUES PILLS – Blues Pills
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Retro Rock is currently the flavour of choice and no other country in the world has embraced and best represented the sound of 70s Rock than Sweden – the very Scandinavian nation that brought us, … Continue reading
Album review: SACRIFICIO – Sacrificio
Iron Bonehead / Nuclear War Now! – Out Now. Anonymity, it seems, has become a much desirable form of advertisement for bands these days – one that the Spanish Thrash/Death Metal trio Sacrificio seems to have definitely subscribed to. The … Continue reading
Album review: JOHN GARCIA – John Garcia
Napalm Records – Out Now. I have to admit that I was initially quite puzzled by the idea of John Garcia releasing a solo album at this moment in time. Why? Well, since the mighty Kyuss decided to disband in … Continue reading
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Album review: ENTRAILS – Resurrected From The Grave
Metal Blade – Out Now. Death Metal reached its commercial peak in the early 90s and, at that time, it was Sweden which became the epicentre of the said movement in the ‘old continent’, mainly due to the very existence … Continue reading
Album review: EMPYRIUM – The Turn Of The Tides
Prophecy Productions – Out Now. When Markus Stock, otherwise known as Ulf Theodor Schwadorf, decided to put his Dark Symphonic Folk Metal project Empyrium to rest back in 2002 he did so by claiming that the band needed to “move … Continue reading
Album review: KING OF ASGARD – Karg
Metal Blade – Out Now. Sometimes, the choice of an appropriate name is really worth its weight in gold. Take, for instance, the Swedish Melodic Death/Viking Metal quartet King Of Asgard. I had absolutely no clue whatsoever what these lads … Continue reading
Album review: UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath
Iron Bonehead – Out Now. If you were to ask me to name one good reason why I chose to review the third studio release of the Death Metal quartet Unaussprechlichen Kulten my response would be that I find the … Continue reading
Album review: DEMONIC RESURRECTION – The Demon King
Candlelight – Out Now. Coming from a country as tradition-orientated as India and playing Extreme Metal cannot be an easy thing but this is exactly what the six members of the Blackened Death Metal outfit Demonic Resurrection decided to do … Continue reading
Album review: GOATWHORE – Constricting Rage Of The Merciless
Metal Blade – Out Now. It is a well known and universally accepted fact that people understand and appreciate music in different ways – something that, I am sure you agree, makes this beautiful form of human expression such an … Continue reading
Album review: POWERWOLF – The History Of Heresy I (2004-2008)
Metal Blade – Out Now. It’s been eleven years since my career as a music journalist began and, to this day, there are times that I still find myself baffled by some of the decisions made by even of the … Continue reading
Album review: CORROSION OF CONFORMITY – IX
Candlelight – Out Now. Corrosion Of Conformity, the Sludge/Hardcore Punk band first formed in Raleigh/North Carolina back in 1982, may have never quite made it big but, throughout its long and turbulent career, has managed to gain the appreciation and … Continue reading
Album review: VICIOUS RUMORS – Live You To Death 2 – American Punishment
Steamhammer / SPV – Out Now. One can only assume that it is through sheer determination and/or stubbornness on the part of guitar maestro Geoff Thorpe that the US Metal powerhouse Vicious Rumors is still with us three and a … Continue reading
