Immolation is back with another face-ripping, ball-tearing album, and I’m here to let you know all about the darkness that dwells within it. Prepare for your… Descent. Descent delves deep into the darkness Immolation does so well. Their sound is tight, terrorising, and transformational, taking Read More …
Fuck me! What did I just listen to? This was my initiation into the Vomitory horde, and I’m not going to lie to the faithful readers of the CRANNK album reviews… I fucking loved it! Talk about power in death metal — Vomitory have it Read More …
Rising from the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut heavy music underground, Another Demon are quickly establishing themselves as a serious force within modern thrash. Built from a lineup of seasoned musicians with deep roots in hardcore and metal, the band brings together experience, precision, Read More …
ABOUT FUCKEN TIME! Firstly, I’d like to personally apologise to Headbore. It took over a year for this review to be written. Branded was released March 21, 2025, and it took this long for the album to receive its first long-awaited review. When I interviewed Read More …
This review is for NYC thrashers Another Demon and the re-release of their EP As Above So Below, featuring guest James Murphy (Testament, Death, Obituary), via Ragebreed Records / Earache Records digital distribution on April 18. Another Demon dip their toes into pools of blood Read More …
Fun fact — it would have been my grandad’s 100th birthday on this very day. Yep, that’s right! And I got to celebrate it at the best metal festival in the northern suburbs of Adelaide: Metal on Murray. Now, as I’ve said before, I’ve been Read More …
At the ripe old age of 51, I’ve been to dozens of festivals and hundreds of metal gigs. After so long you think you’ve seen it all — it’ll just be “another” festival. But thoughts like that are fucking ridiculous, and that became very apparent Read More …
Now, this EP may only be three songs long, but holy fuck does it pack a punch. When I listened to As Time Awaits for the first time, one thing struck me more than anything else — the immense intensity within each track. All three Read More …
There is one thing I can say unequivocally when it comes to Sylosis — I am never worried they’re going to release a shit album. About 15 years ago, when I first heard 2008’s Conclusion of an Age and 2011’s Edge of the Earth, I Read More …
Canadian powerhouse Wreck-Defy are back to shatter our eardrums and destroy our brains with their new album Dissecting the Leech. Get ready to get your thrash/power metal on, because your shit is about to get Wreck-Defy(ed). Hailing from Thunder Bay in Ontario (how very aptly named), Read More …
After a 15-year hiatus, Adelaide’s metalcore homeboys Abandon All Hope are back, kicking down the door with two brand-new, downright devastating tracks, Hell and Hopeless. From 2006–2011, Abandon All Hope were kicking ass and taking names, releasing two albums,Where Life and Death Meet and their Read More …
History and metal collide in a way not heard since the lessons taught by the almighty Iron Maiden on Carrion Vael’s new album, Slay Utterly — a mercilessly vicious anthology of atrocity that explores the more criminally insane side of humanity in all its gory Read More …
