Author: Sean Palmerston

  • Aggressor – Beyond All Reckoning

    Aggressor – Beyond All Reckoning

    Beyond All Reckoning is a solid album throughout, and the fact that you can’t completely pin down the sound of Aggressor is exactly what makes them so good. This is an album best experienced beginning to end, though you couldn’t go wrong picking any one track to listen to. For my money, that’s the mark…

  • Word Association Fun with… Liberteer

    Word Association Fun with… Liberteer

    Kevin Stewart-Panko plays the word association game with Liberteer’s Matthew Widener on the eve of the release of his new project’s debut album, Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees, set for release on Relapse Records on January 31st.

  • RIP Mark Reale of Riot

    RIP Mark Reale of Riot

    Mark Reale of Riot passed away on January 25th. We will have a review of their January 20th show on Friday on the site, but here are some video clips in Mark’s honour in the meantime.

  • Christian Mistress – Possession

    The words “retro” and “throwback” get used a lot when describing music, especially in the rock and metal realm. In the case of Christian Mistress it goes way beyond that, sonically speaking anyway. Every single track on Possession is steeped in classic metal awesomeness.

  • Wildernessking – The Writing of Gods in the Sand

    Ambitious and progressive, razor-raw and unrelenting, the debut from Cape Town’s WILDERNESSKING is passionate and exciting, and I’d daresay an early frontrunner in my book for one of the best of the year.

  • Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II

    Alas, I’m not sure that this record is all that different from Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I, but I’m not quite feeling this one as much. I shall have to revisit the original, perhaps.

  • A Triptych of Death: Horrendous / Ominous Crucifix / Vore

    Catching up on some of the late 2011 releases that nearly went under the radar, Craig Haze reviews a triptych of death metal albums, including the latest from Horrendous, Ominous Crucifix and Vore.

  • Mike Dean of Corrosion of Conformity: The Hellbound Audio Interview

    On Thursday I had a chance to speak to Mike Dean of the recently reunited Corrosion of Conformity about their excellent upcoming self-titled album that will be released on Candlelight Records. We had a nice chat while he walked his dogs, chatting about making the new album, how the band got together again as a…

  • Joe Thrasher – Cries of War

    Right from the beginning though it is obvious that Joe Thrasher not only want to make you bang your head, they want you to remember these songs for a long time.

  • John Arch: The Hellbound Audio Interview

    Late last year Jason Wellwood had the chance to speak to the one and only John Arch, the original vocalist for US progressive metal legends Fates Warning about his recent Sympathetic Resonance collaborative album with FW guitarist Jim Matheos under the name Arch/Matheos. Here is their chat, originally broadcast on Jason’s radio program Witchfinder Radio…