Album Review – Page 15

You're browsing the archives

From Friday 13 October 2023

Twin Temple – ‘God Is Dead’

Cast yourself back in time to the age of the Twilight Zone in black and white, grab yourself a martini and revel in the haunted retro reinvention of Twin Temple. Their satanic, sex-positive take on the late fifties vocal harmony sound has led to spots supporting Behemoth and Danzig,

Thursday 12 October 2023

Creeper – ‘Sanguivore’

If you arrive at a new Creeper record to be met with a 9-minute opener complete with a ‘Tubular Bells’ intro driving straight into a modern day ‘Bat Out of Hell’ and are taken by surprise, you must be new here. For those that have been following the band’s

Beartooth – ‘The Surface’

Being a Beartooth fan, especially a long term one, is like having an entry ticket into frontman Caleb Shomo’s psyche. The frontman’s public struggle with depression and self-hatred has informed most of their records, but now he’s working towards recovery and self-acceptance. As a result, the messages and themes

Wednesday 11 October 2023

The Menzingers – ‘Some Of It Was True’

There was a time when The Menzingers were the favourite band of people with their finger firmly on the pulse of the punk scene. While that’s still the case to an extent, their output in recent years has shown they have what it takes to cross over and reach

Wednesday 04 October 2023

Shower Of Teeth – ‘Eternal Gut Rot’

With a name like Shower Of Teeth, the expectation is a terrifically dark deathcore band with plenty of songs detailing the macabre and haunting aspects of life and death. Likewise, ‘Eternal Gut Rot’, their latest album, evokes similar imagery, and that’s without pointing out the album cover

Friday 29 September 2023

Grove Street – ‘The Path To Righteousness’

It’s been a long time coming for Grove Street (formerly Grove Street Families). The GTA inspired Southampton crew have danced around the fringes of the scene for years now, but have at last returned to us with a full-length release, moving beyond pastiche into fully fledged metaldom

Black Stone Cherry – ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’

Black Stone Cherry have progressed far beyond blaming it on the boom boom. Now, with an average age of forty, they’ve reached maturity and managed to compress a Southern thunderstorm into a twelve song package. ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’ introduces not only Steve Jewell Jr. on bass (formerly a

Wednesday 27 September 2023

Code Orange – ‘The Above’

Code Orange are one of the world’s most brutally exciting metal bands, and that’s largely due to their relentless capacity to shock their audience. This is a band that likes to keep their listeners on their toes and never takes the easiest creative choice. When you press play on

Tuesday 26 September 2023

Koyo – ‘Would You Miss It?’

Old punks turn into country singers as they age, but those in the hardcore scene? They regenerate like Time Lords, constantly reinventing and growing more youthful with each album. Koyo might only be three years old as a band, but its formed of luminaries from Typecaste and SeeYouSpaceCowboy. Their

Blood Command – ‘World Domination’

If you were to describe the latest Blood Command album in a word, ‘ambitious’ would be a top contender. This is probably a word the band themselves would be comfortable with too, it is named ‘World Domination’ after all. This is their second album in as many years following