Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Willowtip Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Back and even bigger than before, Sunless are breaking soundwaves again with the much awaited release of Ylem, part 2 of a dissonant and terrifying experimental death-metal trilogy. On October 29th, we’ll be lucky to witness the evolution of…
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Interview with Rat King
Interview with Kyle Wilcher Interview by Kat Knite Evansville, Indiana natives Rat King have just released their new full-length doom metal album, ‘Omen’. We got a chance to catch up with drummer/lead vocalist Kyle Wilcher and talk about the music, future plans, and more! Check out the interview down below…
Rat King – Omen
Reviewed: August 2021 Released: 2021, self-released Rating: 2.5/5.0 Reviewer: Kat Knite Hailing from Evansville, Indiana come Rat King, a doom metal outfit formed in 2016 by Andrei Stirbu (lead guitar), Kyle Wilcher (drums/lead vocals), Jason Wilcher (rhythm guitar/backing vocals), and Nick Graman (bass). While the young band members are ambitious and draw…
Aversed – Impermanent
Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2021, Self-Released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Progressive melodic death metal band Aversed have broken through the mould with their first full-length album Impermanent. Following up to their two previous EP’s, they are back with a bang after taking time apart so members could focus on other…
DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons Volume I
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Napalm Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Dealing With Demons, Volume I is the eighth (ninth if we count 2018’s covers album, Outlaws ‘Til the End, also a Volume I) studio album from DevilDriver, one of the biggest names in modern US groove metal alongside…
Interview with Adamantis
Interview with Adamantis: Evgeny Gromovoy – Drums Javier Estrada – Guitars Jeff Taft – Guitars Jeff Stark – Vocals Cody Pelchat – Bass Interview by Kieron Hayes Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram Hey and thank you for your time. What first inspired the formation of Adamantis? Is there a meaning behind…
Possessed – Revelations of Oblivion
Reviewed: June 2019 Released: 2019, Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes “Forefathers of genre X” (or some variation) is a term that gets bandied about a lot. This doesn’t mean it’s being misused though: few genres owe themselves entirely to a single artist, and most will have a…
Hot Suede – Hot Suede
Reviewed: May 2019 Released: 2019, self-released Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Hot Suede’s self-titled new album is here to provide you with all the classic hard rocking goodness you could want. Hot Suede play classic-styled hard rock, and they play it well. A simple assessment, but also a simple approach…
Wardehns – Now Cometh the Foul
Reviewed: April 2019 Released: 2019, self-released Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes The cover of Wardehns’ new album depicts a pair of trolls/giants (with art based on Games Workshop’s Giant model, nice!) charging out from their foetid lair. Combine with the album’s title, “Now Cometh the Foul”, and you have an…
Overkill – The Wings of War
Reviewed: April, 2019 Released: 2019, Nuclear Blast Rating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Bloody hell, it’s Overkill album time yet again and here is album nineteen, ‘The Wings of War’. Having just seen Overkill on their most recent tour, I was leaving the writing of this until the last minute so…
Jon Schaffer’s Purgatory – Purgatory
Reviewed: February 2019 Released: 2018, Century Media Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes So, a quick intro for those who might require it: Purgatory was what Iced Earth was called before it was Iced Earth, in effect a prototype of the band (similar to Burn the Priest for Lamb of…
Toby Knapp – Blizzard Archer
Reviewed: February 2019 Released: 2019, Moribund Rockers Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes No good reviewer wants to judge things by their cover. But such things do make an impression, and both the cover and other promo images with this one immediately filled me with a mild dread. It has all…
Bongzilla + Dopethrone + Sons of Otis @ The Underworld, Camden, London
Bongzilla + Dopethrone + Sons of Otis @ The Underworld, Camden, London 1st July 2018 Review and Photos by: Ryan Whitwell / Shotison Media
Ravenscroft – Rebel
Reviewed: May 2018 Released: 2018, independent Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Do you find yourself craving the post-grunge rock stylings of the early 2000s? If so, then Ravenscroft have got you covered. Plenty of bands these days are theming themselves around some kind of throwback to music styles of…
NovaReign – Legends
Reviewed: March, 2018 Released: 2018, M-Theory Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Come for the solos, stay for…more solos. NovaReign are here with their debut album, Legends. Right from the opening of “Call on the Storm”, they make it perfectly clear what they’re here to do: play loud, proud and unabashedly…