"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."
"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.
MacDara Conroy surveys the latest season's heavier offerings, and offers up his belated end-of-year favourites from 2013
"...a flurry of furious guitar shredding, hoarse-throated vocals and inhuman blastbeats..." MacDara Conroy reviews This World Is Dead from French grind freaks Blockheads
Not at all happy with Baroness' MORM leanings, Dudley still thinks Live At Maida Vale is "a pretty enjoyable, if unessential listen".
Relapse Records' Tombs & Southern Lord's The Secret play a four date Irish tour this weekend, visiting Belfast, Dublin, Cork & Galway.
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
"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.
MacDara Conroy surveys the landscape of heavy, noisy and interesting music over the past 12 months