BUTCHER BABIES Release Debut Studio Album ‘Goliath’ July 9th, 2013 Los Angeles, California-based metal group Butcher Babies issued debut full-length studio album Goliath in North America on July 9th, 2013 through Century Media Records. The label also scheduled a digital-only release for Europe on July 22nd. The outing was cut in Los Angeles, California, with […]
VOID MEDITATION CULT / SPERM OF ANTICHRISTSulfurous Prayers Of Blight And Darkness – Split LP Hells Headbangers (2013)Rating: 6/10 Ohio’s Void Meditation Cult and Sperm Of Antichrist are both the unholy works of one Desolate Defiler, and this split album Sulfurous Prayers Of Blight And Darkness showcases the wretched talents of said individual. Desolate Defiler […]
LORD DYINGSummon The Faithless Relapse (2013) Rating: 7/10 Portland, Oregon’s Lord Dying boast one of my favourite album covers of the last few years. The quartet was formed in 2010 and Summon The Faithless is the debut, eight-track opus from this merry bunch of doomsters. Thankfully, it’s not the usual stoner metal that is infecting […]
BATTLECROSSWar Of Will Metal Blade (2013)Rating: 6/10 After turning many heads with their Metal Blade Records debut, Pursuit Of Honor (2011), Detroit Rock City’s Battlecross have returned with a sophomore label effort that will surely cause pause amongst even more metalheads. Kicking off the album release with a stint on the Rockstar Mayhem Festival tour […]
LORDS OF THE TRIDENTPlan Of Attack EP Junko Johnson (2013)Rating: 6.5/10 I’m immediately sceptical and judgmental of a band who play comedy metal. While talented musicians, the awfully named Lords Of The Trident – who feel intent on wearing silly costumes onstage – have somehow carved a career out of their jokey metal, resulting in […]
WHITESNAKEMade In Britain / The World Record Frontiers (2013)Rating: 7/10 Other than a few absent years in the mid-90s when most felt that rock was dead, Whitesnake has been out there in some form since 1978, releasing a string of hits along the way ranging in style from hard rock to blues to hair metal. […]
WITCHES MARKWitching Metal Ritual Heaven And Hell (2013)Rating: 8/10 Not to be confused with the Florida Pagan rock band Witch’s Mark, these guys hail from Texas in the United States, and are very much rooted in the murky days of 80s metal. But this isn’t just any old four-piece treading water to bring back the […]
SANKTUARYSomething Fierce Spread The Metal (2013)Rating: 7/10 Hailing from Canada, Sanktuary are the latest in a thrashy collective of bands reinvigorating the genre. While the band has a certain thrash bent, there are also plenty of traditional metal elements that remind me of super early Slayer and Annihilator. After a metal-by-numbers intro entitled ‘Deadly Prey’, […]
GUILTZ N PLEASUREZOut Of Control EP GnP (2013)Rating: 6/10 This new British glam rock band win no prizes for what has to be one of the worst band names I’ve heard this side of the 90s. Even so, there’s a fresh-faced pomp about this quintet, particularly in the impressive guitar work of Rockie Steel. The […]
ACACIATills Döden Skiljer Oss Åt Art Of Propaganda (2013)Rating: 7.5/10 Considering this Swedish act only formed in 2012, this is some piece of work for a debut album. Acacia are a six-piece act formed out of the ashes of Livsnekad who likes to dabble in melancholic metal, music that could loosely be described as doom […]
