Self Released

Goodness! Vasa's debut Colours is like a small child hyped up on too much fizzy pop but there's also a strong sense of optimism to the album which is hard to dislike.

Apparently the tracks from this EP have been languishing in some dusty cupboard for moons and moons - not that you could tell, as they ring with the contemporary yearning of modern shoe-gaze/blacke

Red Razor like a beer and they obviously like a bit of eighties thrash too, judging by the sound of Beer Revolution.

Too bloody short!

Thorr-Axe like to sing about winter and giants and axes and all manner of viking stuff - but they don't do it as a parody or piss-take - and they do this stuff very well.

I can't say much about Alkira's Juggernaut except it's fucking good.

Those bloody Swedish folk!

Oooh gawd...how to describe ...aAnd?'s aAlbum?

This comes almost an an antidote to the amount of black metal that I've been consuming lately and it quenches my thirst for some good old fashioned rambling madness.

There's not much I can say about Enemy Reign's Tormented To Oblivion, aside from noting that it's some rather decent death metal without any pretences or delusions of gran