Best Metal Albums of 2013, by Matt Hinch 1. Clutch - Earth Rocker (Weathermaker) I'm unashamed of my total bias towards Clu...

Four years following the release of their second record “The Cancer Empire”, Swedish/American combo Zonaria have returned with another al...

Baroness last album, the blue one, was as close to perfect as sludgemetal will ever get, so the pressure is on to see if John Baizley and...

Surprisingly, one of the most ferocious and hard-hitting releases coming from Norway this year wasn’t created by a band covered with paint,...

Two years on from their much lauded second album “Under Black Skies”, Norwegians Purified In Blood are back with a new effort and minus a...

After the stunning “Songs for Burning Lovers” on Deranged Records, former Cursed vocalist Chris Colohan retakes the offensive once more w...

This 35-minute slab of brutal death metal isn’t a bad start for Portugal’s Annihilation. “Against the Storm” is tailor-made for fans of M...

Vithr is the first project to emerge from the Demonhood stable, a new label founded by the fellows behind Duplicate Records and Neseblod ...

Fans of the sadly defunct Usurper will be thrilled to know that the former vocalist/guitarist of the Chicago-based band Rick Scythe is ba...

On their second full-length effort, Los-Angels based thrashers continue to churn out a memorable, aggressive and no-frills thrash metal o...

Over the past fifteen years France’s Gorod has been busy as heck establishing themselves as one of most consistent and challenging technica...

Two years on from the release of their critically acclaimed EP “The Moulting”, Mares of Thrace are back with a new album that essentially...

Drawing inspiration from some of the ugliest bashers in the sludge and doom scene like Sourvein, Rwake and Black Cobra, Biipiigwan’s new EP ...

It is curious to note that the best and most feral examples of the classic Swedish d-beat infused death-metal sound comes not from its place...

Don’t be fooled by the sweet name of Love Sex Machine for this French group offers nothing but filthy and caustic sludge without a single ou...

Santiago Alquimista - Lisbon  19/01/2012     Although tonight’s show isn’t exactly crowded, the excitement surrounding these shows is...

On their previous releases, Canada’s 3 Inches of Blood always walk a fine line between goofy, over-the-top heavy-metal and an infectious ble...

Following a lacklustre release “Strychnine.213” released in 2008 (by their own admission, I though it was pretty good) Belgium’s Aborted are...

While The County Medical Examiners is laying dormant and Cretin is waiting for frontwoman Marissa Martinez to fully attain her womanhood (Ma...

If 2010’s effort “In the Absence of Light” saw Abigail Williams straying from their symphonic black metal roots towards a rawer, fiercer and...