The British Columbian metal tank known as Bison have a solid effort with their album You Are Not the Ocean You Are the Patient, out on Pelagic Records.
Musical insanity aside, this will have a home with many who worship at the altar of ‘post-Human’ Death, Ulcerate, Artificial Brain, Immolation and others of supreme extreme excellence.
The magnificent doom caravan known as Avatarium is back with a breath of fresh metal air in ‘Hurricanes and Halos’; after all, all classics start somewhere!
Fresno doom rockers Beastmaker have a hefty album out to throw up the horns to in ‘Inside The Skull’. Naturally, we take a look to see what the fuss is (rightly) about.
Anathema created something simply wonderful in their latest, very existential work, called The Optimist; we merely try to describe it’s brilliance.
One thing that springs forth from extreme metal’s circle that is also vital to the scene, is its occasional bursts of originality that chart new courses – or revisit ones long concealed. Völur’s Ancestors does a remarkable job guiding us through the latter.
Serious business for the bunch known as Moonbow, as their latest War Bear comes at you for both the good times and the summertime blues.
The early punk thrash fury of ‘RRROOOAAARRR”, that was Voivod’s seminal follow-up to their now legendary debut ‘War and Pain’, gets the reissue treatment and goodies that it deserves after 3 decades of influence courtesy of BMG.
One of Voivod’s all-time fan favorites finally sees the reissue light, courtesy of BMG; and Voivod’s Killing Technology is still very much as awesome as when it first hit the scene 30 odd years ago.
Thanks to BMG, the ultimate sci-fi thrash classic in Dimension Hatross sees the light of day again, as Voivod’s masterpiece originally by NOISE Records gets a great reissue treatment.
The UK whirlwind known as Employed To Serve will have your attention if they have to throttle and shake you around for it; luckily with ‘The Warmth Of A Dying Sun’ that won’t be any problem at all.
Extreme tour grind machine Full Of Hell bring forth a concentrated grinding blast of near-perfection for their latest long anticipated masterwork Trumpeting Ecstacy.
The ultra-cool psyche-out styles of Detroit’s latest hard rockers Ecstatic Vision, keep it warm and loose on their second sonic trip, Raw Rock Fury.