Tag Archives: death metal

It has now been two years since I began this heavy metal blog following intense pressure from some circles. What started as an exercise in quieting the mob has blossomed into a labour of love and something I am very passionate about. Over the two years, I have been able to write material based on  Continue Reading »

Artist: Xerath Album Title: III Label: Candlelight Records Year of Release: 2014 UK extreme metallers Xerath return with their third album, ‘III’ and in keeping with ‘I’ and ‘II’ before it, have not wasted any precious time in thinking of a new approach to album titles. Simply titled it may be but instead, once again,  Continue Reading »

I hadn’t planned on writing this post but all of a sudden, I felt compelled to do so. In recent months, I have been completely blown away by the quality of music being produced by some Australian artists and I wanted to bring this to people’s attention more. As a brief aside from an English  Continue Reading »

Welcome to the second part of my series rounding up what I consider to be the best releases during the first-half of 2014. If you missed Part 1, which features a diverse few bands ranging from melodic hard rock to post-black metal shoegaze, you can access that via this link: Half-Way Through 2014 – The  Continue Reading »

Continuing with my look at what’s likely to greet us in 2014, here’s another selection of goodies that I’m sure will delight many… (Part 1 can be viewed here) ANATHEMA ‘TBC’ Liverpool’s Anathema have had a couple of big years and 2014 threatens to be another. The big question however, is this: can they match  Continue Reading »

Hello and welcome dear friends, followers and casual readers. You join me at the business end of my mammoth ‘Album of The Year 2013’ countdown. Today, we hit the top 5, those albums that have had the biggest impact on me during 2013. Bearing in mind how amazingly strong 2013 was for new releases, it  Continue Reading »

Welcome to Day 13 of my ‘Album of the Year 2013’ countdown. As always, thanks for sticking with me on this seemingly mammoth undertaking. I hope that you’re enjoying my choices and my inane drivel as much as I’m enjoying putting it all together. If you’re not enjoying it, tell me why, I can take  Continue Reading »

Day 2 of my Album Of The Year 2013 countdown. Welcome back and thanks for reading. If you happened to miss Day 1, you can read it here. As always, this is a personal list and there’s bound to be people who agree or disagree with my choices. Please feel free to tell me exactly  Continue Reading »

Having gone through some of my favourite released so far from 2013, I thought I’d turn my attention to the remainder of the year and highlight some of those albums that I personally, am looking forward to being released. Based on the following list, it threatens to be another strong six months… Haken – “The  Continue Reading »

Today, I bring you part 4 in my mini-series, taking a look at some of the very best releases of 2013 to date. The previous parts of this series can be found here: Half-Way Through 2013 – The Best So Far – Part 1 Half-Way Through 2013 – The Best So Far – Part 2  Continue Reading »