THE BULLET BITERS: Napalm Over The Rainbow
Year: 2025Label: Bad Billy Records The 15th of March, 2008. That’s when I first heard The Bullet Biters and knew this was a band worth keeping tabs on. They were still a young band back then, with just a single … Continue reading THE BULLET BITERS: Napalm Over The Rainbow
CHRIS HARMS: 1980
Year: 2024Label: Napalm Records Fans of German alternative, dark and gothic tinged rock might be familiar with a band called Lord Of The Lost. I, not being a particular fan of such music, am not. But even so, Chris Harms … Continue reading CHRIS HARMS: 1980
ALLA XUL ELU: Head Of Horns
Year: 2015/2025Label: Long Live Evil Alla Xul Elu, who we’ve covered before a number of times (see here), have risen to become one of the foremost names of that oddball subgenre of rap known as horrorcore. Sure, the genre still … Continue reading ALLA XUL ELU: Head Of Horns
KOFFIN KATS: Higher Lows
Release year: 2024Label: Koffin Kats Records I’ll be on the level with ya: US psychobilly act Koffin Kats have never been my favourites. I first got to know them in the mid-noughties, and from the go my opinion of them … Continue reading KOFFIN KATS: Higher Lows
From the Vaults #16: Tougher Than Leather
The concept album is a notoriously risky thing. The prospect of telling a story over the arch of an entire album, tying together all tracks into a conceptual, thematic and/or narrative whole has proven to be a surprisingly tricky thing … Continue reading From the Vaults #16: Tougher Than Leather
WHITERAT: Conglomerate Malaction
Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries Italian Whiterat don’t muck about on their newest tape release. From the very first second, the listener is bombarded with an unrelenting barrage of harsh, violent and extremely abrasive noise. And for the next 22 minutes, … Continue reading WHITERAT: Conglomerate Malaction
DEMOLYN: Slay The Godhead
Release year: 2025Label: self-released Wait, what, did I mistake this band for someone else? That was my first thought when putting on Swedish Demolyn’s new EP. See, in comparison with the debut release Tales Of Demolyn (reviewed here), Slay The … Continue reading DEMOLYN: Slay The Godhead
AVULSED: Phoenix Cryptobiosis
Year: 2025Label: Xtreem Music “So, how long will we have to wait for a new full-length?” we asked in our review of Spanish Avulsed’s previous release, the two-track EP Extraterrestrial Carnage. And now we have the answer: almost two years. … Continue reading AVULSED: Phoenix Cryptobiosis
KÜRØISHI: Egocide Of The Warmad
Year: 2025Label: Break The Records/Fight Records/SPHC Records The warhogs are back, true to their style. Finnish Kürøishi are instantly recognizable from their cover artwork, always featuring wild boars, always courtesy of Akihiko “Sugi” Sugimoto. Maybe it’s not characteristic quite to … Continue reading KÜRØISHI: Egocide Of The Warmad
SATANIC WARMASTER: Exultation Of Cruelty
Year: 2024Label: Werewolf Records Released at the butt-end of 2024 with little to no advance hoopla, Finnish Satanic Warmaster’s Exultation Of Cruelty seemed to come a bit like a thief in the night. All of the sudden it just sort … Continue reading SATANIC WARMASTER: Exultation Of Cruelty
Only Death Is Real 