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Paradox - Electrify AFM Records - Out Now By Daniel Fisher Charly Steinhauer returns after maybe 8 or so years from the last killer cd Collision Course with yet another bone crushing cd Electrify. This record is not bad at all. I put the disc in my cd player and was assaulted by...

Embodiment - Legeon Self Released - Out Now By Daniel Fisher Embodiment are a melodic thrash outfit who have already released 3 demos and so here we are with their first full release, featuring several old cuts that have been polished and refined to a standard worthy of being on the...

Hail of Bullets - Of Frost And War Metalblade Records - Out Now By Daniel Fisher Members from some of the Netherlands' most important death metal bands, namely Pestilence, Gorefest and Thanatos among others, have joined forces to form Hail of Bullets, a staggering old-school death...

Mord - Necrosodomic Abyss Osmose Productions - Out Now By Daniel Fisher Mord were founded in 1999 by Nordra who recorded their first release of black metal pestilence as a one man band in 2001. Travel forward to 2008 and their latest offering, Necrosodomic Abyss, lands or slithers...

Mandrake - Mary Celeste GreyFall Records - Out Now By Daniel Fisher Mandrake are a female fronted 5-piece Swedish crew who play what they describe as gothic metal without the "weepy self pity and melodramatic genre clichés". Fair enough. It’s hard to take this mission statement...

Mahatma - Perserverance Listenable Records - Out Now By Daniel Fisher Mahatma are a 4 piece Korean outfit that play a mix of thrash, metal core and death metal. The band formed in 1993 and has earned a reputation as being one of the best extreme metal bands to come out of the Asian...

Greeetingz now iknowz teh Shit talkinig hat has beez goin' down aginast SLipgaot on dis msg bored so me and my friend Daryl who iz better than that Michel Lagerfeld anyway on the guitar, dat man haz da skills. Letz look at da facts yeah? Slipnot sells millionz of copies of ONE ALBUm, OPef...

I know it's a little premature to be wondering what the next album will be like as the current one has only just come out. BUT, where do you think Opeth are going musically, considering the range of new influences that are currently jostling for position in Opeth's sound?

Various Artists - Live at Wacken 2007 Wacken Records – Out Now By Dan Fisher It is always the problem with live festival DVDs that they can’t quite replicate the live experience of the actual event. Subsequently, they are always going to appeal more to the fan who has been to the gig...

Hot Buttered Anal – Please Kill Me Self Released – Out Now By Dan Fisher When I first saw the cover of Hot Buttered Anal’s album, my first thoughts were ‘oh no, not another ‘comedy’ grindcore album to review’. Oh, how wrong I was. Way wrong. The band play a mix of dirty gutter punk...

Opeth – Watershed, Review #2 Roadrunner Records – 6th June 2008 By Dan Fisher ...and so here we are. The wait is finally over and we can inspect the latest septet of offerings from Opeth. The album art. The special edition design is very interesting, aching with a sense...

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The Red Chord – Prey For Eyes Metal Blade – Barcode 039841462920 – Out Now By Dan Fisher What the fuck is up with the drummer in The Red Chord? He is FAR too obsessed with blast beats. There are some brilliant riffs that are going to waste on this album because they are crying out for...

Tankard – Best Case Scenario: 25 Years In Beers Peaceville Records – No Barcode – Out Now By Dan Fisher “We want to drink some fucking beeeeeeer!” - Andreas Gerre Geremia. Genius. Sounding like a cross between Motorhead, Maiden and Discharge, with the...

Splitter – Avskrackande Exemplar Obscene Records – No Barcode – Out Now By Dan Fisher Okay here is a statement that may just rupture the fabric of the spacetime continuum: I like a grindcore band. If any of you have read my earlier reviews of grindcore, you would know I...

Opeth – The Roundhouse Tapes Peaceville Records – No Barcode – Out Now By Dan Fisher To the outsider, Opeth sometimes seems to be like a soap opera. Who has fallen out this week? Who's leaving the show? Who's slept with who? Okay maybe not the last one. But you would be...

Novembre – The Blue Peaceville Records – No Barcode – Out Now By Dan Fisher Holy shit if this album sounded anymore like Katatonia's Brave Murder Day they would to change their name to Novembretonia. Now don't get me wrong this is a beautifully cold album which has been...

Nightwish – Dark Passion Play Nuclear Blast – No Barcode – Out Now By Dan Fisher Nightwish, as if you didn't know, play a rather spectacular blend of metal and symphonic bombast that sounds like it has spilled from the sets of a Tim Burton or Peter Jackson movie. After...

Arsonists Get All The Girls – The Game Of Life Century Media –Barcode 5051099770621– Out Now By Dan Fisher Arsonists Get All The Girls is probably the best band name I've heard for ages. They are mixture of grindcore vocals with melo-death drums and guitars. There is also...

Arkhon Infaustus - Orthdoxyn Osmose Productions – No Barcode – Out Now By Dan Fisher Now, I've read a few reviews branding this band 'evil' which I think smacks of rather lazy journalism. Evil is something that is subjective and really is a westernised way of framing 'the other' who...