Category: Review

Review: “Demo MMXXV” by Lugubrious Garment

Conceived in the spring of 2025, Lugubrious Garment is the brainchild of Milan based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and relentless sound explorer Gabriele “GG” Gramaglia (Cosmic Putrefaction, Vertebra Atlantis, Turris Eburnea). Born from the urge to channel darker, more ravenous instinct in comparison with his other ventures, the nightmarish vision is of fast, annihilating Death Metal infused

Review: “Self Titled” by Olesin

Olesin is a forest in eastern Poland, a place of ruined palaces with lions, libations, fights, suicides, drownings, mysterious candles, and the birthplace of figures who changed the course of history. A place of hunting returns. Just like home. A perfect name then for a mysterious collective offering a raw, chaotic and Bergmansk form of

Review: “A Heart Is A Heavy Burden” by Heavensgate

While all that glitters may not be gold, for Melbourne Australians Heavensgate, the ascent to glory seemingly continues without falter. 2023 saw them unveil EP “And All I Loved, I Loved Alone“, a record which has subsequently gone on to accumulate more than 1.5 million Spotify streams alone. Then came singles “Ratking” and “Violent Joy”

Review: “Ill Intent” by Brainwave

“It’s an extremely personal record, albeit one set against the backdrop of a world tearing itself apart. It’s about hopelessness, the pain of loss, and the brutality of everyday life. But it’s also about conquering the summit, overcoming both yourself and your detractors” ~ Brainwave

Review: “Bitter Lucid Truth” by Valletta

Written and recorded in the first months of 2025 in order to escape the trappings of the two year gestation period of its predecessor, “Bitter Lucid Truth” is the third burnt offering from Raleigh North Carolina Black ‘n Roll quartet Valletta and their first with bassist Cody Rogers. Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob (He Is Legend,

Review: “Regime” by Juliet Ruin

Produced by Juliet Ruin and Diego Fernandez (Art Of Attrition, Grand Mal, Fall Of Earth) who also mixed and mastered at Oracle Recording Studios in Alberta, a forth studio record from Canadian’s Juliet Ruin is an intriguing prospect. The five piece have long drawn comparisons to the likes of Jinjer, Infected Rain, Butcher Babies and even

Review: “For All the Dead Dreams” by Mastiff

Known for their tales of Misanthropy, Nihilism, Hatred and Despair in Sludge Metal laced Hardcore, Kingston Upon Hull five piece Mastiff are the kind of band who will meet you at midnight on a building site for a brick fight if you cross them. They’ve spent the last twelve years reducing venues to rubble on

Review: “In a Violent Nature” by Vanta NC

Hailing from Raleigh North Carolina, Deathcore quintet Vanta NC have been using “919 ignorance” and “Blue Collar Deathcore” as their call signs since their 2024 inception. Debut EP “VantaBlack” paved the way for the band to rattle a few cages while sharing stages with everyone from God Of Nothing to Weeping Wound and Chained to

Review: “VantaBlack” by Vanta NC (1st Anniversary)

On the 1st October 2024 Raleigh North Carolina Deathcore skull crushers Vanta NC announced themselves to an unsuspecting world with a debut EP that left us wondering what we’d just heard. It was the work of five arch criminals in guitarist duo Conrad Crounse and Drew Greene alongside vocalist Dylan Barham, bassist Rob Volkov and

Review: “Nothingman” by Age of Ruin

They may have only released the half an hour of power that is their fourth studio album “Thieves” in February of 2023 but by the October of that very same year Washington DC natives Age Of Ruin were already working on follow up “Nothingman“. In what can only be considered a labour of love, the