Revocation live in Toronto, September 2019
Revocation, Voivod, Psycroptic, Skeletal Remains & Conjurer @ The Opera House, Toronto ON, 14 September 2019 As the night started, a queue wrapped around the…
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HRH SLEAZE 2019
31 August- 1 September, O2 Academy Sheffield, UK HRH Sleaze was born in 2017 and was extremely well received. Now in its third year…
Riot – Live In America
The Official Bootleg Set, Vol 3 (1981-1988) Riot are one of heavy metal’s great ‘nearly made it huge’ bands. There are a number of…
Chron Goblin – Here Before
They didn’t start up until a couple years after I left town, but I’ve always followed Calgary stoner rock veterans Chron Goblin from afar….
Elixir – The Remedy
Lethal Potion / Sovereign Remedy / Elixir Live, 3CD Remastered Boxset Edition Listening to the recent ‘Winds of Time’ New Wave of British Heavy…
Void King – Barren Dominion
Indiana doom band Void King does NOT contain any current or former members of Apostle of Solitude…but I’ll be damned if their riffs don’t…
Samson – Bright Lights: The Albums 1979-1981
5CD Boxset If ever there was a box set to capture everything that was (and still is!) great and magical about the New Wave…
Crossover The Edge
Where Hardcore, Punk And Metal Collide By Alexandros Anesiadis Foreword by Ian Glasper Published by Cherry Red Books This is a fine idea for…
Darkthrone – Old Star
A new album from Darkthrone is always a special occasion. Recently I was watching Behemoth at King John’s Castle in Limerick when a friend…
A chat with IRON VOID
Interview with Jonathan “Sealey” Seale and Steve Wilson of Wakefield, UK doom band Iron Void. In all my years of writing about heavy metal, one…