Released: 2001 A genre renowned for having so many almost mutually exclusive branches of it’s family tree, what was once … More
Tag: Metal
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #25 Rammstein – Feuer frei!
Released: 2002 Sometimes – rarely – there’s just too much back story to put into a few hundred words. In … More
Metallica – 72 Seasons review
When you’re as big as Metallica – hundreds of millions of album sales big, tours grossing tens of millions of … More
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Land of Sleeper review
Slumber isn’t something you would readily associate with Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, a band who’ve spent over … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #90 Killswitch Engage – My Curse
Released: 2006 The rise of the awkwardly misnomered nu-metal never had much of a feel or permanency in a commercial … More
50 Best Songs of 2021 #7 Violet Cold – We Met During The Revolution
Disclaimer #1 The author had never heard of Violet Cold, or this song until two nights ago. Disclaimer #2 Or … More
2021’s Best Albums #7 Gojira – Fortitude
French eco-metallers go COP26 on our asses: reduce your carbon emissions just by sitting at home all day listening to … More
Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort To Me review
You took your lockdown(s) as you could; circumstances, strains and outcomes varied. For Amyl & The Sniffers it meant a … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #94 Sepultra – Refuse/Resist
Released : 1993 By the mid-nineties metal realised it could to whatever it wanted; if music as extreme as In … More
The Best Albums of 2020 #8 Code Orange – Underneath
Brutal, often adrenalin-soaked example of how modern metal thrillingly transcends genres. Read about it here. Key tracks: Swallowing The Rabbit … More