Exumer - The Raging Tides (Metal Blade)
Genre: Thrash Metal
German metallers Exumer may not have reached the same level as the teutonic thrash triumvirate... Read More...
Gehennah - Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die (Metal Blade)
Genre: Metal
Take the amphetamine snorting, whiskey-chugging rock n’ roll of Motörhead, add a ... Read More...
Antropomorphia - Necromantic Love Songs (Metal Blade)
Genre: Death Metal
Antropomorphia have come a long way since Necromantic Love Songs was first releas... Read More...
Blending thrash and death metal and boasting some of the most talented musicians in the extreme music scene, Boston’s Revocation have made their mark at home an... Read More...
Beesus - The Rise of Beesus (Goodfellas and New Sonic Records)
Genre: Stoner Rock
There’s a song on The Rise of Beesus called Sonic Doom/Stoner Youth, whi... Read More...
Brimstone Coven - Black Magic (Metal Blade)
Genre: Occult Rock
Has the whole ‘occult rock’ thing been done to death? Listening to Brimstone Coven’s Beyond... Read More...
Ketzer - Starless (Metal Blade)
Genre: Metal
Starting life as a blackened thrash outfit, Ketzer now deal in raw, energetic dark rock - which in the case o... Read More...
Hexvessel - When We Are Death (Century Media)
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Hexvessel: a non-metal band that metalheads like. Why? Possibly because there is som... Read More...
Borknagar - Winter Thrice (Century Media)
Genre: Progressive Black Metal
Borknagar’s multi-hued, epic take on black metal has always enthralled… and like ... Read More...
Firespawn - Shadow Realms (Century Media)
Genre: Death Metal
With a collective CV that includes bands such as Entombed (or Entombed A.D.), Unleashed and N... 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.