Complete Failure - Crossburner album review By Connie Gordon published 5 November 17 Grind steelers start to wield their own power tools
Usnea - Portals Into Futility album review By Connie Gordon published 10 October 17 Glacial, cinematic suffering from Portland’s funeral doom crew
All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal album review By Connie Gordon published 10 October 17 Hardcore punk crew widen their radius of destruction
Implore - Subjugate album review By Connie Gordon published 12 September 17 Bleak but brilliant crust-infused DM from Italian n’erdowells
Rescue Rangers - Join Hate album review By Connie Gordon published 12 September 17 Gallic heavy rockers find friends in high places
Mastiff - Bork album review By Connie Gordon published 11 September 17 Northern miserablists play fast and loose with the sludge template
Low Flying Hawks - Genkaku album review By Connie Gordon published 15 August 17 Wringing more low-slung mayhem from the Melvins’ larder
Grant The Sun - Grant The Sun album review By Connie Gordon published 11 August 17 Nordic noisemakers career along the sonic spectrum
Leng Tch’e - Razorgrind album review By Connie Gordon published 21 July 17 Belgian grind institution complete their renewal
Dead Cross - Dead Cross album review By Connie Gordon published 18 July 17 Supergroup does super work on debut
Broken Hope - Mutilated And Assimilated album review By Connie Gordon published 25 June 17 Death metal greybeards slip off the comeback trail
Bury The Machines - Wicked Covenant album review By Connie Gordon published 24 June 17 Small Mercies - New Blood
Powerflo - Powerflo album review By Connie Gordon published 23 June 17 Rap metal supergroup suffers a power outage
Tombs - The Grand Annihilation album review By Connie Gordon published 29 May 17 NY’s experimental black metal crew throw in some more shades
Goatwhore - Vengeful Ascension album review By Connie Gordon published 29 May 17 NOLA black thrashers ascend to new heights
Full Of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy album review By Connie Gordon published 5 May 17 Grade A carnage from irrepressible grind crew
Foreseen - Grave Danger album review By Connie Gordon published 5 May 17 Finnish underground thrashers rev themselves up to warp speed
Oxbow: "We’ve always aimed to link into the human soul, spirit and psyche" By Connie Gordon published 6 April 17 An enigma wrapped up in boxing tape, Oxbow have been simultaneously terrorising and enthralling audiences since the late 80s. Now, after a 10-year hiatus, they’re back
Firespawn - The Reprobate album review By Connie Gordon published 2 April 17 Swedeath supergroup lives up to its status
Cut Up - Wherever They May Riot album review By Connie Gordon published 2 April 17 Swedish death metal – it’s in their blood
Havok - Conformicide album review By Connie Gordon published 10 March 17 Denver thrashers try to grasp the irony of their album title
Danko Jones - Wild Cat album review By Connie Gordon published 3 March 17 Irrepressible rockers dig up a mound of new dirt
Weltesser - Crestfallen album review By Connie Gordon published 27 February 17 Floridians’ doom debut depresses for all the wrong reason
Iron Reagan - Crossover Ministry album review By Connie Gordon published 26 February 17 The heart of crossover’s still beatin’
Dealer - Billionaire Boys Club album review By Connie Gordon published 22 February 17 Oakland upstarts use their debut album to buck orthodoxy
