MacDara Conroy surveys the landscape of heavy, noisy and interesting music over the past 12 months
MacDara Conroy surveys the latest season's heavier offerings, and offers up his belated end-of-year favourites from 2013
'when Red Fang escape the shadow of their lineage they manage to craft some really damn fine songs' - WatchingCattle on Red Fang's Whales And Leeches
Not at all happy with Baroness' MORM leanings, Dudley still thinks Live At Maida Vale is "a pretty enjoyable, if unessential listen".
Call Of The Void's debut Dragged Down A Dead End Path is a 'relentless torrent of downtuned doom grind' says MacDara Conroy
From breathtaking psych grind to meandering sludge doom, MacDara Conroy finds Inter Arma's Sky Burial a mixed blessing
"...a flurry of furious guitar shredding, hoarse-throated vocals and inhuman blastbeats..." MacDara Conroy reviews This World Is Dead from French grind freaks Blockheads
"While each of their previous efforts came dripping with their own visceral intensity, the band's latest is something else altogether" - MacDara might have found his album of the year in Pig Destroyer's Book Burner.
"In different hands this stuff could easily become tiresome - it's a very limited palette they're working from - but Serpentine Path add enough little twists and flourishes (an unexpected tempo shift here, a weirdly contorted chord there) to keep things interesting throughout."
"Lasse Pyykkö has an impressively deep gurgle, like a clogged sink draining." - MacDara on Effigies of Evil, the latest LP from Finland's Hooded Menace.
