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Review of HellHounds Fest 02/03/2009 Camden Electric Ballroom

Ave Inferi play slow, aimless riffs while a fat goth chick belts some wobbly warbles over the top. Doom at its dullest.The 69 Eyes prance and pose for the camera phones, bashing through a set of Asda ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Here’s what you can expect from me

when Underground Industries WebZine launches on 1st October! You will be able to read my full reviews at WWW.UNDERGROUND-INDUSTRIES.UK.COM from the 1st October onwards....I may have reviewed your...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT

MY BLOODSTOCK FESTIVAL 2008 REVIEW

Bloodstock Festival Review   Bloodstock Festival - England's own feeble offshoot of Wacken  is a weekend full of sketchy doodles of the 'metal' cartoon. Kicking off the disappointing weekend ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:51:00 GMT

My Review of Nifelheim: Envoy of Lucifer

Swedish Nifelheim's latest effort 'Envoy of Lucifer' is overloaded with gnawing, discordant guitar leads, powerful and precise blast beats and screams dripping with satanic conviction. As if that's n...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:15:00 GMT

My Review of Tiamat: Amanethes

After a 5 year wait since their gentle, ethereal 'Prey' album; Tiamat have -rather predictably- returned to the dark side with 'Amanethes' - their first release on the Nuclear Blast label. The album b...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:26:00 GMT

It’s 4.35 am

I'm sat in my room, rain falling outside my window, watching the sunrise, listening to Longview's 'Mercury' album. This is a beautiful moment.
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:40:00 GMT

My review of Keep of Kalessin: ’Kolossus’

Keep of Kalessin have been Norway's rising black metal stars since the release of the epic 'Armada' album in 2006; and have a crucial point to prove with follow-up release 'Kolossus'. C...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:44:00 GMT

My Review of the new Nine Inch Nails album -’The Slip’

Cold, atmospheric dissonance and pumping industrial drum beats drive latest NIN album:'The Slip' - through walls of chainsaw guitars in the first handfull of tracks - right through to i...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 16:40:00 GMT

Poem: Something in the Sincerity

There's something in the sincerity Which makes your song an unbearable listen Sharp knives and raw nerves are dancing together without making eye contact I count away the seconds in time to the beat Y...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:48:00 GMT

Poem: The Lap Dance

Morality, and it's values, are giving me a private lap dance in a dingy, anonymous corner of my mind that is filled with married buisnessmen and their cold eyes... there are no windows. The dance...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:43:00 GMT