So, this year (2020) has been tough for everyone. For me, without going into details it has been particularly tough on a many levels.  I hav...

As this site has been neglected by yours truly to the point of pretty much being dead these days, I thought it wouldn't harm to update t...

Out of the greyest of grimmest of the grim Finland. Even though their earlier EP was nearly 45 mins long, this is down as the band's ...

The debut album of ferocious eastern flavoured death metal from British crew Sarpanitum. Released in 2007, this album will flatten not on...

This is the hand-numbered original release from The True Werwolf, a side project of Satanic Warmaster main man, Werwolf (not just any old...

Some fine blackness that seeped out of Iceland here, with the sole full length album and early demo material from Svartidauði - Icelandic...

Been a while updating this site, it's been left as an archive for a long time due to most of my updates coming via my Instagram accou...

Living in the backwoods of rural Oxfordshire, it’s always pleasing when an extreme metal band raises its gnarled head from the murky wat...

Gnarled punk/hardcore/grind from the legendary Sore Throat. This compiles two of the bands releases into one CD, both of which were never...

This CD combines the two albums from US crossover/thrashers Wehrmacht - 'Biermacht' & 'Shark Attack'. Released firstl...

The first EP from thrash/power/heavy metal crew Savage Messiah. Not the easiest thing to find these days, I received this for reviewing p...

The 2nd album from Prophecy of Doom released by Metalcore Records in 1992. Featuring reliably authentic old school sound, with a fierce g...

The was a 2005 issue on CD of the earliest of EPs from Canadian Hyperblast kings, Kataklysm. Indeed, this came even before their debut al...

Masters of doomy goodness Trouble here, with the masterful Eric Wagner and co laying down the doomy misery through their 80s perio...

The sole album from Weakling here, 'Dead As Dreams' still holds up as one of the finest pieces of USBM for me nearly 20 years sin...

Daddies of 90s stoner doom Sleep here, with their debut album 'Volume One'. I picked this up in the mid-nineties, and realised th...

Classic doom/death here from New York's Winter. This is the Metal Mind re-issue from 2008, which combines their debut and EP into one...

Slugathor were one of the gnarliest death metal bands to ever drool out of cold, grey Finland. Pictured are the original pressings of t...

This is the Metal Mind re-issue of some prime classic death/thrash from Canadians Slaughter. Limitation of 2,000 copies, this is as hard...

'Vargnatt' is the fine demo of Ulver, the one time black metal band who went on to metamorphose into any number of genres you...

A nice piece of obscurity here, featuring British thrashers Warpath. These guys self released this debut album in 2008, then seemingly di...

A nice slab of gnarled old school death metal from Blood Music here, the debut album from Tomb Mold 'Primordial Malignity'. As a ...

The 2nd album from Australia's brilliant Abramelin here, featuring some of their best produced, face punching death metal. Thick, ang...

Alcest have certainly changed style through the ages of their existence, blowing through their earlier more atmospheric black metal orien...

Technical death metal from the magnificent Sceptic from Poland. This is the band of guitarist Jacek Hiro, a former live guitarist for Dec...