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LIVE BY THE SWORD: The Glorious Dead E.P. Release year: 2022Label: Rebellion Records As I wrote in my review (read here) of US-Dutch Live By The Sword’s debut full-length, Exploring Soldiers Rise, they represent an oi! band of a new … Continue reading Remembering the glorious dead
SPEEDMOBILE: Supersonic Beat Commando Release year: 2022Label: Butler Records What do you get when you combine Dutch psychobilly legends Batmobile with compatriot action rock legends Peter Pan Speedrock? Well, of course, you get Speedmobile: one third Batmobile (Jeroen Haamers on … Continue reading Join the supersonic beat commando
DJEVEL: Naa Skrider Natten Sort Release year: 2022Label: Aftermath Music We’ve reviewed Norwegian Djevel’s two previous albums (here and here), and have come to consider the band as something of a single-entity latter-day resurgence of the classic norsecore sound and … Continue reading In Djevel’s black night
THOSE POOR BASTARDS: God Awful Release year: 2022Label: Tribulation Recording Company A bit of context to begin with. For yours truly, US gothic country act Those Poor Bastards have been a favourite for well over fifteen years, and throughout the … Continue reading Godawful mediocrity
ONSLAUGHT KOMMAND: Demo I Release year: 2022Label: Godz Of War Productions Ah, South America. Home to throngs of underrated and cult-level extreme metal acts, and a veritable breeding ground of everything rabid, slavering, boneheaded, bestial and crude when it comes … Continue reading Pervert goat onslaught kommand
UNFYROS: Alpha Hunt Release year: 2022Label: Aural Hypnox Empyrean Editions Having found your way to this site, chances are the name Aural Hypnox will ring a bell. It is, after all, a label responsible for many a latter-day classic within … Continue reading The slithering darkness of Unfyros
RANKKA PÄIVÄ: Kylmään veteen Release year: 2022Label: self-released If you’re into punk, you’ll know that Finnish hardcore is A Thing with capital letters. Even from before hardcore itself was a thing, Finland has churned out fast, raw and aggressive punk … Continue reading Hard days & cold waters
V/A: Horror Punk’s Not Dead! Vol. 1 Release year: 2022Label: We Are Horror Records Horror punk’s not dead – but should it be? The oddball genre, pioneered by seminal act The Misfits, has always been maligned and sneered at by … Continue reading Horror punk’s dead, undead, undead, undead
DEATH WILL FIND ME IF IT SEEKS ME: The Work Of Annihilation Release year: 2022Label: self-released When it comes to post-industrial, experimental music, the futility of pigeonholing acts is an eternal truth. And yet, at least when writing music reviews, … Continue reading A work of nihilation
ALLA XUL ELU: Reanimator Remix Release year: 2022Label: Long Live Evil No, this isn’t a new Alla Xul Elu album. No, Alla Xul Elu have not left Majik Ninja Entertainment – well, not to my knowledge at least. What this … Continue reading Alla Xul Elu reanimated
Only Death Is Real 