2013 Releases

Genres, sub-genres, we love ‘em, right? We can’t get enough of bands proclaiming themselves to be the new Gods of post-blackthrash shoegaze mayhem, am I wrong?

It’s hard to put into mere words how refreshing it is to listen to a band like Tad Morose. In simple terms they are, just like you and me probably, heavy metal.

Veteran German rockers Mad Max, nearly thirty years in ‘the hardest game in the world’ now, have returned to the fray with a new album, Interceptor that sounds like, well,

Welsh glamsters Tigertailz are BACK!!

It would be very interesting to take a peek into the mind of Tim Yatras (Austere, Ex--Lord).

Canberra proggies Perpetual End are back for a second bite at the rock n’roll cherry and, luckily, they’ve brought some pretty good material along for the ride.

New Zealand’s purveyors of heavy metal goodness; Subtract have once more unleashed their ever-sharpened formula for metal and it has materiali

After Hell’s triumphant return to the fray a couple of years ago after a quarter century in self-enforced musical purdah, with an album – the quite magnificent Human Remains

It's a rare thing indeed when a band is able to tick almost every buzzword box on the list.

Well, well, well… I’d always assumed that Spiral Arms – featuring Craig Locicero of Bay Area thrash notables Forbidden and Tim Narducci