No new Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer or Cattle Decapitation? No problem. This year’s haul mixed old school ethics with 21st century innovation, and with a clutch... Read More...
Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better? (Church Road Records)
It’s Hard To Have Hope.
Hard indeed.
And the title of Svalbard’s 2018 opus, two years... Read More...
Mustasuo – Katharsis (Off Records)
2020 may be the year the world went to hell, but at least it has brought us some incendiary grind and crust. Bands like W... Read More...
Henry Kane – Age Of The Idiot (Transcending Obscurity Records)
When he’s not cooking up sizzling death metal with Wombbath, Ashcloud, Bezerker Legion and mo... Read More...
Hive – Most Vicious Animal (Seeing Red Records/Crown and Thorn Ltd)
It’s shaping up to be one hell of a year for d-beat – perhaps the fractious political cl... Read More...
In a year which has seen Swedish d-beat and crust vets like Victims and Martyrdöd return to the fray in formidable form, it’s perhaps fitting that the spotligh... Read More...
Victims – The Horse and Sparrow Theory (Relapse Records)
It’s hard to believe that Victims have been d-beating us around the head for more than two decades... Read More...
Totem Skin - Weltschmerz (Halo of Flies)
Genre: Metal/Hardcore
Inhabiting the same scorched musical landscape as Nails and Trap Them, Swedes Totem Skin de... Read More...