Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us (Nuclear Blast)
Genre: Extreme Metal/Hardcore
Grindcore, hardcore - however you label them, there’s no denying Nails’ ... Read More...
Infestdead - Satanic Serenades (Century Media)
Genre: Death Metal
Dan Swanö may be synonymous with Swedish death metal, but with Infestdead - a project ... Read More...
If These Trees Could Talk - Bones of a Dying World (Metal Blade)
Genre: Post Metal/Post Rock
If These Trees Could Talk set the bar high with their first t... Read More...
As a member of black metal legends Emperor, Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen - aka Samoth - helped to shape the face of extreme music. And since Emperor’s split, the g... Read More...
Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign (Century Media)
Genre: Black Metal
As the sinister intro of opener Unchain my Soul give way to a thunderous, wi... Read More...
Atrament - Eternal Downfall (Broken Limbs)
Genre: D-beat/Extreme Metal
If you thought d-beat couldn’t get any nastier, any gnarlier, then Atrament are a w... Read More...
@Newcastle Think Tank, June 21 2016
Over a career spanning 20 years, Cattle Decapitation have earned a reputation for delivering pummeling eco-conscious deat... Read More...
Accuser - The Forlorn Divide (Metal Blade)
Genre: Thrash Metal
You have to hand it to Accuser mainman Frank Thoms - his band may be into their third decad... Read More...
Waheela - Treading On Weird Lines (Self-Released)
Genre: Noise/Experimental/Post-Rock
It would be a near-impossible task to bottle the searing intensity a... Read More...
Fallujah - Dreamless (Nuclear Blast)
Genre: Death Metal/Progressive Metal
While many technical death metal bands offer convoluted riffery, contorted rhyth... Read More...
Rich is a veteran of the heavy music scene and is widely considered one of the leading experts on doom, death and everything extreme. Rushonrock's deputy editor fulfilled the same role for HRH Mag and continues to forge a reputation as one of the UK's most informed and incisive metal writers.