REDSHARK Sudden Impact Listenable (2025) Rating: 8/10 Thirteen years after forming, Catalan metalheads Redshark serve up their second full-length record, Sudden Impact, and it’s the alarm call you need to set you on your way. With feet firmly embedded in the fast n’ furious 80s metal scene, this is an album that conjures the swirling […]
GRAVE GHOUL Face The Fire Dismal Fate (2025) Rating: 7.5/10 UK death metal dude Ryan Wills is a man of many horrors when it comes not only to his movie interests but also his music. Responsible now for a few projects, including Seven Doors, and the less metal but more atmospheric Freudstein, Ryan gets round […]
ABOMINATOR The Fire Brethren Hells Headbangers (2025) Rating: 7.5/10 Forming in 1994 out of some fiery pit in the darkest corner of Melbourne in Australia, Abominator is the duo of Chris Volcano (vocals and drums) and Andrew Undertaker (guitars), both of whom still serve time in another band, Cemetery Urn. Very much baked and raised […]
BASTARD CRÖSS Crossripper Morbid And Miserable (2025) Rating: 7/10 After a brace of EPs and split projects, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based black thrashers Bastard Cröss decide to spew out a nasty full-length debut album on Halloween. Armed with inverted crosses and adorned in leather, the blasphemous gang of four drags its audience through a frashy, trashy and […]
CREEPER Crushing No Life ’Til Metal (2025) Rating: 6/10 With their second full-length album, Texan band Creeper returns after a 13 year absence with a disappointing slice of groove thrash. Very much dated in sound, Crushing hardly lives up to its name as the Dallas act churns out a mid-to-late 90s generic metal that panders […]
HOSTILIA Face The Fire Hammerheart (2025) Rating: 7/10 Thrash metal, Swedish style, is on the agenda with Hostilia. Face The Fire is their debut full-length album which has emerged after a brace of EPs. The band of five formed four years ago out of Gothenburg, although current vocalist Tim Angelini didn’t join the ranks until […]
NECROTUM Soul Chamber Harvest Dan’s Crypt (2025) Rating: 7/10 With their fourth full-length studio offering in five years, Romanian deathsters Necrotum clog the nostrils with their underground scent on this collection of re-recorded and re-imagined songs from the band’s May The Dead Rise demo and Condemned To Burn debut album (both originally released in 2020). […]
THAUMATURGY Pestilential Hymns Memento Mori (2025) Rating: 7.5/10 Gasping from the same infernal void as Asphyx, Pestilence and Obituary, ripping Kansas-based deathsters Thaumaturgy (the brainchild of a chap named KT) spits out a follow up to 2023 debut full-length, Tenebrous Oblations. The comparisons with the aforementioned deathly titans emerge more so due to the dehydrated […]
ARMOURED KNIGHT The Quest For The Sacred Melody Dying Victims Productions (2025) Rating: 7/10 Chilean metallers Armoured Knight has most certainly been on a quest, having first appeared on the scene back in 2009, but it’s clearly taken the band way too long to release a full-length. Okay, I won’t be too harsh seeing as […]
CORONER Dissonance Theory Century Media (2025) Rating: 8.5/10 Still looking dark around the eyes and pale in the cheeks, legendary Swiss thrashers Coroner are the latest combo to reform, bringing back their dry and colourless rhythms after dissolving in the mid-90s. Naturally, I was concerned about the reformation, especially when one considers how many bands […]
