Relapse Records' Tombs & Southern Lord's The Secret play a four date Irish tour this weekend, visiting Belfast, Dublin, Cork & Galway.
"You've gotta have grade-A titanium balls to pull that off" - MacDara checks out Dying Fetus' recently released LP Reign Supreme.
"What if Mogwai were fronted by Jeff Walker from Carcass?" - Horseback's Half Blood, released earlier this year on Relapse, gets the belated MacDara treatment.
"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.
"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."
"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.
"...a flurry of furious guitar shredding, hoarse-throated vocals and inhuman blastbeats..." MacDara Conroy reviews This World Is Dead from French grind freaks Blockheads
From breathtaking psych grind to meandering sludge doom, MacDara Conroy finds Inter Arma's Sky Burial a mixed blessing
Call Of The Void's debut Dragged Down A Dead End Path is a 'relentless torrent of downtuned doom grind' says MacDara Conroy
Not at all happy with Baroness' MORM leanings, Dudley still thinks Live At Maida Vale is "a pretty enjoyable, if unessential listen".