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Review: Fulci – Duck Face Killings
Review by Sandre the Giant Italian death metallers Fulci have slowly become one of the genre’s most dependable bands, with their loving tributes to old school brutal death metal and classic Italian...
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Review: Kurokuma – Of Amber and Sand
Review by Sandre the Giant It has been ten years since Sheffield’s Kurokuma first dragged their sludgy doom carcasses into the underground consciousness with their demo debut, and now only two years...
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2024 Anniversary Series 102: Corrosion of Conformity – IX
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Last time we saw Corrosion of Conformity in the Anniversary Series, it was 40 years ago. Well, no it was last month, but that was their classic ‘Eye for an Eye’ debut, and...
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Review: Oxygen Destroyer – Guardian of the Universe
Review by Sandre the Giant As a man who ADORES old school kaiju movies as well as ripping riffs, Oxygen Destroyer should really be a band I am in big on. Unfortunately for me, I have been woeful in my...
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2024 Anniversary Series 103: Cirith Ungol – King of the Dead
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Legendary pioneers in American power metal, as well as early kings of doom metal as well, Cirith Ungol’s first four records are all complete classics, and until their 2020...
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Review: Evilyn – Mondestrunken
Review by Sandre the Giant If you were lucky enough to hear international avant-garde death metallers Evilyn on their 2020 debut ‘Inside Shells’, you were privy to one of the year’s weirder debuts. In...
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Review: Child – Shitegeist
Review by Sandre the Giant No universe, no I will not let you drag this magnificently titled record past me, no matter how busy I am. ‘Shitegeist (that’s so fucking good) is the new record from...
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Live Review: Sigh/Brònach/Mutalith (14/08/24)
When you get an opportunity to see one of metal’s most unique and reliably brilliant bands live for the first time in the UK for almost 30 years, you don’t think about it, you make the purchase. That...
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Review: Wraithfyre – Of Fell Peaks and Haunted Chasms
Review by Sandre the Giant From the man behind Dwarrowdelf, whose new album we reviewed earlier in the year on this very site, comes the debut album from symphonic black metal band Wraithfyre. ‘Of...
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2024 Anniversary Series 104: Brocas Helm – Defenders of the Crown
Scribed by Sandre the Giant The last record from San Francisco trad metal legends Brocas Helm, ‘Defender of the Crown’ is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and this record might be one of...
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2024 Anniversary Series 105: Judas Priest – Redeemer of Souls
Scribed by Sandre the Giant The first Priest record without founding guitarist K.K. Downing, part of probably the world’s most iconic duel guitar partnerships in metal, if not all of music, was always...
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2024 Anniversary Series 106: Helloween – Master of the Rings
Scribed by Sandre the Giant The sixth full length from Helloween, legends of European power metal and part of the German ‘Big Four’ in terms of classic power and trad metal (alongside Grave Digger,...
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Review: Sarcasm – Morninghoul
Review by Sandre the Giant The rebirth of old school Swedish death metal stalwarts Sarcasm in 2015 has been a pleasure to follow. After a number of demos in the early 90s, the band vanished until...
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2024 Anniversary Series 107: Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestite
Scribed by Sandre the Giant The Pacific Northwest’s influence on black metal’s sound is all pervasive these days, and that is largely thanks to the glorious atmospheric work of Wolves in the Throne...
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Review: Doubtsower – Nothing Reduced to Everything
Review by Sandre the Giant When a new band appears in the UK underground, touting their work as an experimental blend of doom and electronic music, and their newest release is 6 tracks at over an hour...
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Review: Grave Heresy – Incineration Victory
Review by Sandre the Giant The debut record from Swedish death metallers Grave Heresy is called ‘Incineration Victory’, and is out now through Godz Ov War Productions. Now, I don’t know much about...
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2024 Anniversary Series 108: Amorphis – Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Finnish legends Amorphis have gone through quite the evolution over the years, from their grim death metal roots on debut record ‘The Karelian Isthmus’ to their latest,...
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Review: Officium Triste – Hortus Venenum
Review by Sandre the Giant Dutch death/doom titans Officium Triste have been around for almost thirty years, and their emotive and immediately recognisable sound has only grown and matured over this...
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2024 Anniversary Series 109: Buzzov-en – Sore
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Known as one of the founding fathers of sludge, alongside their brothers in pain EyeHateGod and Acid Bath, Buzzov.en’s earliest work is rightfully revered as seminal by...
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2024 Anniversary Series 110: Grim Reaper – See You in Hell
Scribed by Sandre the Giant No, no we didn’t forget about this on last year’s anniversary series, no we definitely did not! ‘See You in Hell’ did see its initial release in 1983 through Ebony Records,...
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