Published on February 19th, 2010 by The Editor
Montreal rednecks-in-waiting Barn Burner bring out the Sabbathy stoner clichés with gusto on Bangers… but sadly, that’s pretty much all there is to it.
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Tags: Bangers, Barn Burner, metal, redneck, rock'n'roll, Southern rock, stoner
Published on February 4th, 2010 by The Editor
Follow The Never Ending Way of Orwarrior deep into the wind-swept dunes of Middle Eastern power metal with progressive Isreali dramatists Orphaned Land.
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Tags: metal, Middle Eastern, Orphaned Land, power metal, prog, progressive, The Never Ending Way of Orwarrior
Published on February 2nd, 2010 by The Editor
The Sections EP is the self-funded opening salvo from Young London tech-metal extremists The Safety Fire; I get a feeling it won’t be the last.
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Tags: extreme metal, metal, prog, progressive, Sections, technical, The Safety Fire
Published on January 21st, 2010 by The Editor
Until We Are Outnumbered sees Danish bruisers The Kandidate combine the simple and punchy elements of thrash and hardcore to neck-shattering contemporary effect.
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Tags: hardcore, metal, The Kandidate, thrash, Until We Are Outnumbered
Published on January 20th, 2010 by The Editor
Yet more by-the-numbers box-ticking chart fodder from Young Guns, recently voted “band most likely to disappear up the collective arse of Lostprophets”.
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Tags: emo, metal, Mirrors, pop, post-hardcore, Young Guns
Published on December 18th, 2009 by The Editor
A Sort Of Spasmic Phlegm Induced by Leaden Fumes of Pleasure… that’s the album title of the year right there, thanks to tongue-in-cheek Swiss stoners Phased.
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Tags: A Sort Of Spasmic Phlegm Induced by Leaden Fumes of Pleasure, doom, metal, Phased, psychedelic, riff rock, stoner
Published on December 16th, 2009 by The Editor
A whole lot of nineties bands have crawled back out of obscurity this year, but few of them deserve a second chance so much as Living Colour always have.
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Tags: fusion, hard rock, Living Colour, metal, pop, punk, The Chair In The Doorway
Published on December 7th, 2009 by The Editor
Mis-billing themselves badly as grunge revivalists, Starseed’s debut album Peace Machine would do quite well in the pop-metal arena… if it were half as long.
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Tags: hard rock, metal, nu-metal, Peace Machine, pop metal, post-grunge, rock, Starseed
Published on November 25th, 2009 by The Editor
Gibraltar-born nu-metal survivors Breed 77 deliver their fifth album, Insects; the music is pretty decent, though the lyrics are somewhat lacking.
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Tags: Breed 77, Insects, metal, nu-metal, thrash
Published on November 21st, 2009 by Jonathan McCalmont
New reviewer Jonathan McCalmont cuts his teeth on the chilly magnificence of The Life We Have Chosen, the debut album from metalcore Scousers Carcer City.
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Tags: Carcer City, hardcore, metal, metalcore, The Life We Have Chosen