Reviewed: May 2020 Released: 2020, Willowtip Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog In order to whet the appetite of any listener wanting to increase their intake of aural brutality, Kansas death metallers Unmerciful describe Wrath Encompassed as their “angriest and most destructive album to date.” It’s their third full length recording, and…
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MNRVA – Black Sky
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019 – Self Released Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Beandog Black Sky is a tricky record to review. If you’re into the sort of sludge encrusted doom that owes its weight to the likes of Electric Wizard, then there is actually very little to dislike about MNVRA‘s debut.…
Sempiternal Dusk – Cenotaph of Defectuous Creation
Reviewed: September 2019 Released: 2019, Dark Descent Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog If you didn’t already know – Osmium and Iridium are the densest metals known to man. Alternatively, if you wanted to consider things in terms of relative atomic mass, then you would be looking at both Plutonium and…
Obsidian Tongue – Volume III
Reviewed: August 2019 Released: 2019 Bindrune Recordings Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog By Obsidian Tongue’s own account, six years is a long time in the world of metal and music. This is how long it’s been since the band last put out a collection of songs. They acknowledge, with no shortage…
Amulet – Interview with Mace, Sam & Heathen
Interview by BeanDog We recently spoke to London-based traditional heavy metal band Amulet about their new album, their future plans and what makes them tick. You can read what they had to say here… Hello! Thanks for taking some time to chat with us. It seems like an exciting time to…
Firespawn – Abominate
Reviewed: July 2019 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog “We’re not a Satanic band. Not in the normal way you’d define Satanism anyway. Like a devil with a tail, wings, and a giant fork. That’s not what I’m about. That’s not what we’re about. But I do…
Tronos – Celestial Mechanics
Reviewed: May 2019 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog “For years, whenever we were together on the road, or in the studio, we often had late night conversations about making music that was dark and apocalyptic but also contrastingly fragile and ambient, encompassing the different moods of…
Comatose Vigil A.K. – Evangelium Nihil
Reviewed: March 2019 Released: 2018 – Non Serviam Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Beandog Evangelium Nihil represents something of a triumph over adversity for Russian doom band, Comatose Vigil A.K. Recorded with the help of David Unsaved from Ennui and John Devos of Mesmur, this current version of the band has taken the…
Pounder – Uncivilized
Reviewed: March 2019 Released: 2019 – Hells Headbangers Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog Spearheaded by Matt Harvey (of Exhumed, Gruesome and Expulsion), Pounder is the result of three passionate musicians coming together to celebrate their love of classic rock and heavy metal. Harvey takes on both guitar and vocals, and is…
Blood Feast – Chopped, Diced And Sliced
Reviewed: March 2019 Released: 2018 – Hells Headbangers Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog The press release accompanying Chopped, Sliced And Diced describes it as a four track mini album (six if you buy the CD or cassette release) intended to maintain the “fast and furious” momentum between Blood Feast‘s 2017 comeback record…
The Three Tremors – The Three Tremors
Reviewed: February 2019 Released: 2019, Steel Cartel Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog “Three times louder than a sonic boom. Three fingers on the hand of doom!” This is the description used on the press release to describe the brand new collaboration from three of heavy metal’s more formidable vocalists: Tim “Ripper”…
Third Storm – The Grand Manifestation
Reviewed: November 2018 Released: 2018 – Dark Descent Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Beandog The Grand Manifestation is the Swedish band Third Storm‘s first full length album. Preceded in 2015 by an E.P. called Taritiya Me (also released on Dark Descent records), I am surprised to learn that the origins of the…
Possessor Sign To APF Records – New Album Due In 2019
South London, horror obsessed – sludge thrashers, Possessor have signed a brand new record deal with APF Records. Preparations for their fourth full-length album are well underway. UK, Salford-based, independent label APF – who’s roster also includes, Ba’al, Barbarian Hermit, Battalions, Blind Haze, BongCauldron, Desert Storm, Diesel King, Mastiff, Nomad,…
Cauldron & Primitai @ The Black Heart, Camden
Cauldron & Primitai @ The Black Heart, Camden 20th September 2018 Review By Beandog Photography By Jo Blackened Perhaps more than any other London borough, Camden is the metalhead pub-crawlers wet dream. While nearly every town will have a rock-friendly pub somewhere on their streets – Perhaps a barman who doesn’t…
Ross the Boss – By Blood Sworn
Reviewed: April 2018 Released: April 2018, AFM Records Rating: 3.5/5.0 Reviewer: Beandog For the uninitiated, Ross “The Boss” Friedman’s rock and roll credentials are pretty solid. In the early 70’s he founded The Dictators. A band many people have credited as being the forerunners of the American punk scene.…