Speedtrap – Straight Shooter
Reviews I’m seen for this simply splendid album seem to focus on two bands as influences on Speedtrap, Motorhead and Chrome Division (I don’t…
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Crux of Aux – Mona
Despite the best efforts of No Why Records founder Mark McGee and his former bass playing cohort in I Hate Sally/The Chariot, Dan Vokey,…
Tau Cross – Tau Cross
Tau Cross features Rob Miller from Amebix and Away from Voivod and draws great strength from both bands. Amebix and Voivod are two of…
Kowloon Walled City – Grievances
I had read somewhere that Kowloon Walled City‘s new album, Grievances, is a concept album about office culture, workplace conflict and the rat race. You…
Lucifer – Lucifer I
Lucifer open this splendid album with ‘Abracadabra’, a magical phrase that implies the opening up of new vistas and worlds. Which, following the sad…
Bevar Sea – Invoke the Bizarre
When Reverend Bizarre penned their tongue-in-cheek anthem “Doom Over the World” back in ’05, I’m not sure they could have foreseen a doom outfit…
Unleash the Archers – Time Stands Still
Napalm made a very good decision in signing Unleash The Archers: they have all of metal’s strengths and none of it’s weaknesses. Time Stands Still…
Windhand – Grief’s Infernal Flower
I’m probably one of the few doom critics who didn’t put Windhand’s Relapse debut Soma in his year-end top 10 in 2013. Not that…
The Meads of Asphodel / Tjolgtjar – Taste The Divine Wrath
It is releases like this that are the reason I’ve dedicated so much time to this genre. It comes as no surprise that the…
Motörhead – Bad Magic
It’s hard to tell what happened to Motörhead between the release of Aftershock and the recording of Bad Magic, but there’s no missing the…