Editors Choice Cuts of 2018
2018 came and went in the blink of an eye, leaving a pile of albums I have yet to give my full attention. Therefore before I start my Top 10 I want to mention a few albums that didn't quite make the cut.
B...
5.0
Evil Scarecrow – Chapter 4 -Antartarctica
In this day and age, rock music holds more novelty acts than sometimes it can hardly handle, with the trend of dressing up and creating macabre theatre being prominent in the genre since the emergence of the la...
4.0
Seething Akira- Sleepy Skeletor
Making a musical mismatch dream of tectonic electronic beats and pulsating industrial metalcore, Portsmouths Seething Akira sound exactly like their name suggests: fucking mental. Running in the underground for...
4.0
The Fever 333 – Made An America E.P
After the shock announcement that the hardcore band Letlive was over, many fans tried to find answers into what could’ve broken up one of the most cutting edge hardcore bands of the 21st century. Slowly ov...
4.5
Judas Priest – Fire Power
Judas Priest are a band that need little introduction, they are one of the finest of British metal bands of all time and have inspired generations of metal heads throughout the decades. Classic albums like ‘Bri...
3.5
We Are Band Nerds – Forget Me Not
The mysterious We Are Band Nerds’ album 'Forget Me Not', due to be released this February 23rd, is the revenant blast from the past which has given Nu-metal (long believed dead) a new lease of life. If you are ...
4.0
Ne Obliviscaris – Urn
Don’t let the (seemingly unpronounceable) name scare you. Ironically, I can never remember it,* let alone pronounce it.
On a whim some years back, as I was walking through my favourite record store, Ne Obli...
4.5
Ye Banished Privateers – First Night Back in Port
Ye Banished Privateers takes you 300 years back in time for an imaginary journey through the harsh life at sea during the early 18th century. With songs inspired by traditional Irish and Scandinavian folk music...
4.2
Legacy Of Emptiness – Over The Past
Anyone who remembers the tongue-firmly-in-cheek Black Metal band ‘Permafrost’ may already be familiar with ‘Legacy of Emptiness’, a Norwegian 3-man Symphonic Black Metal band comprising of Permafrost founders E...
4.4
The Birthday Massacre – Under Your Spell
It has been considered as one of The Birthday Massacre’s most commercially accessible of all their albums to date. Early reflections are that the band are certainly continuing their exploration of the Dark Ret...