Review Date: February 2021 Released: 2021, Independent Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: RC2000 Nearly four years have passed since Belgium’s Waves Of Decay released their Cycloptic EP. Now the power-thrashers are back with their latest offering BURN YOUR ANGEL WINGS, released independently by the band. The cover art is very well done…
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Deconsecrate – Dark Night Of The Soul
January 2021 December 1st, 2020 / Goodlife Recordings Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine I was a bit hesitant about putting a review of Deconsecrate’s sophomore release DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL up on the site here. Only for the fact that they still have a genre description…
Pestifer – Expanding Oblivion
Reviewed: March 2020 Released: 2020 Xenokorp Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Belgian death metallers Pestifer might not be the most productive band around, but what they lack in quantity, they have to this point made up in quality. Expanding Oblivion is just the band’s third album in 16 years, but…
Killer- Vol 2: Only The Strong survive (box-set review)
December 2019 Released: 2019 / Cherry Red / HNE Recordings Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP Like an unstoppable juggernaut, the British label Cherry Red/HNE keeps their reissues campaign in high gear with a second box-set of the Belgian bashers, Killer. I reviewed the first Killer box-set (Vol 1:The Mausoleum Years) back…
Wiegedood @ Boston Music Rooms, London – “De Doden Hebben Het Goed” Trilogy Tour 2019
Wiegedood @ Boston Music Rooms, London Monday 5th September Review by Johnny Wolf Photography by Ryanite Whitwell (Shotison Media)
Lemuria – The Hysterical Hunt
Artist: Lemuria Title: The Hysterical Hunt Label: Massacre Released: 2019 Reviewed: June 2019 Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP I can’t recall how I stumbled upon Lemuria’s sophomore album CHANSON DE LA CROISADE about nine years ago. I like the indie release so much I ordered it from the band. I reviewed…
Killer – Volume One: The Mausoleum Years -1981-1990 (box-set)
Killer – Volume One: The Mausoleum Years-1981-1990 Label: Cherry Red Year: 2018 Reviewed: March, 2019 Reviewed by: JP Rating: 4/5 The fine folks at Cherry Red are really capturing a good part of the nostalgia market with these cool reissues and little box-sets. I for one an extremely grateful! The…
Desertfest Antwerp 2018 – Day 2
Desertfest Antwerp 2018 – Day 2 13th October 2018 Review and Photos: Ryan Whitwell / Shotison Media
Desertfest Antwerp 2018 – Day 1
Desertfest Antwerp 2018 – Day 1 12th October 2018 Review and Photos: Ryan Whitwell / Shotison Media
Desertfest Belgium – Have you got your ticket yet?!
Desertfest Belgium 2018 is taking place 12-14th October at TRIX, Antwerp’s finest rock venue in the northeastern district of Borgerhout. The line-up so far is looking brilliant, so to get you hyped for a weekend of stoner, doom, sludge, psych and everything in between, here is a brief rundown of…
Objector – Social Intolerance
Reviewed: April, 2018 Released: 2018 Malevolence Records Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson At least Belgium’s Objector don’t play coy with their throwbackedness. Their bio blurb notes that the quartet “aims to “please those who like their metal a bit Slayerly Kreated.” And that’s pretty much what the band…
Prong with HARK & Steak Number Eight @ O2 Islington Academy , London
Prong with HARK & Steak Number Eight O2 Islington Academy 23rd April 2015 Review & Videos by Jo Blackened Photography by Inty Malcolm Tonight saw the return of Prong; the American industrial/thrash metal band, which was formed back in 1986 by guitarist and vocalist Tommy Victor to our UK shores…
Nightqueen – guitarist and bandleader Rex Zeco
Guitarist/bandleader Rex Zeco – Nightqueen Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Massacre Records for promotional pictures. FOR QUEEN AND METAL is the debut album from the goth/fantasy act Nightqueen that comes from Belgium. I hooked up with guitarist and bandleader Rex Zeco in order to talk about…