Heavy Matters
Sep 19, 20232 min read
Guilt Trip – Severance
Label – MLVLTD Release Date – 22nd September 2023 Words – Venny On a dark December ‘22 evening, myself and a couple of hundred others...
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Heavy Matters
Sep 14, 20232 min read
FLESHER - Tales of Grotesque Demise
Label - Redefining Darkness Records Release Date - 15th September 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher In an era where the bands who put out...
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Heavy Matters
Sep 13, 20232 min read
Tesseract – War Of Being
Label - Kscope Release - 15th September 2023 Words - Venny The build up to the release of fifth album led to some anticipation. The lush...
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Heavy Matters
Aug 24, 20232 min read
Celestial Sanctuary - Insatiable Thirst For Torment
Label - Church Road Records Release Date - 25th August 2023 Words - Tony Bliss The most astute metal pundits of our world will have been...
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Heavy Matters
Aug 24, 20232 min read
Grand Cadaver - Deities Of Deathlike Sleep
Label - Majestic Mountain Records Release Date - 25th August 2023 Words - Chris Fletcher For better or worse, the term ‘supergroup’ will...
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Heavy Matters
Aug 15, 20232 min read
Kataklysm - Goliath
Label- Nuclear Blast Release Date - 11th of August 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher Things change pretty quickly in the world of music, so for...
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Heavy Matters
Aug 9, 20232 min read
Urne - A Feast On Sorrow
Label - Candlelight Records Release Date - 11th August Words- Tony Bliss When Serpent & Spirit emerged in 2021, comparisons to prime...
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Heavy Matters
Jul 14, 20232 min read
AKERCOCKE - Decades of Devil Worship
Label - Peaceville Records Release Date - 21st July 2023 Words- Tony Bliss The emergence of Akercocke in the late nineties was like manna...
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Heavy Matters
Jul 12, 20232 min read
Deitus - Irreversible
Label - Candlelight Records Release Date - 14th July 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher After a prolonged four-year silence, York-based trio...
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Heavy Matters
Jul 6, 20232 min read
Calligram - Position | Momentum
Label - Prosthetic Records Release Date- 14th July 2023 Ah, the difficult second album. Many have tried and many have failed to capture...
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Heavy Matters
Jun 15, 20232 min read
Creeping Death - Boundless Domain
Label - MNRK Heavy Release Date - 16th June 2023 Words - Tony Bliss Impressing the death metal world across the board with 2019’s...
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Heavy Matters
Jun 9, 20232 min read
The Bleeding - Monokrator
Label - Redefining Darkness Release Date - 9th June 2023 Words - Tony Bliss Plugging away in the UK underground for well over a decade...
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Heavy Matters
May 26, 20232 min read
Suffering Quota - Collide
Label - Tartarus Records Release Date - 26th May 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher “God loves violence, why else would there be so much of it?”...
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Heavy Matters
May 19, 20232 min read
VHS - Quest For the Mighty Riff
Label - Wise Blood Records Release Date -19th May 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher There is a lot to be said for serious music that drives home...
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Heavy Matters
May 15, 20232 min read
Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination
Label - Century Media Records Release Date - 19th May 2023 Words- Tony Bliss Imagine if (and I’m relying on you having some basic Game Of...
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Heavy Matters
May 11, 20232 min read
DEVILDRIVER - Dealing With Demons Vol. II
Label - Napalm Records Release Date - 12th May 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher With three decades and nine full-length records under their...
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Heavy Matters
May 10, 20232 min read
Omnerod - The Amensal Rise
Label - Self-release Release Date - 12th May Words- Tony Bliss Plugging away since 2009 and enduring a rather turbulent career thus far,...
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Heavy Matters
May 8, 20232 min read
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
Label - Metal Blade Records Release Date - 12th May 2023 Words- Tony Bliss Cattle Decapitation are genuine one-offs. Whilst always a...
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Heavy Matters
May 1, 20232 min read
Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous
Label - Century Media Release Date- 5th May 2023 Words - Tony Bliss Whilst the so-called ‘New Wave Of American Heavy Metal’ established...
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Heavy Matters
Apr 24, 20232 min read
Enforced - War Remains
Label - Century Media Release Date - 28th April 2023 Words- Tony Bliss There’s nothing more satisfying than well-executed thrash metal,...
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