Light This City – Terminal Bloom
Sometimes you don't know you miss a band until you remember they've been gone. For California’s Light This City, it’s been over eight years since they broke up. Then they put out a new album in...
View ArticleHigh On Fire – Electric Messiah
I don’t know how Matt Pike does it. Six months since Sleep dropped The Sciences (which is still ace and you should totally buy if you haven’t already) seemingly out of nowhere, the man who has...
View ArticleBen Ward of Orange Goblin Talks UK tour with COC, And More!
When you talk about dream touring packages, very few co-headliners feel like such a glorious match as Corrosion of Conformity and Orange Goblin – the best of the US “Stoner Rock” and the UK’s finest...
View ArticleSlayer – Lamb of God – Anthrax: Live at Arena, Birmingham (UK)
So, this is it then. The end of an era. A bruising, sweaty, and sometimes controversial, earache-inducing era which spanned over three and a half decades ends with the three words I never wanted to...
View ArticleGinger Wildheart – G*A*S*S Mark II
One of the first UK rock musicians to demonstrate how crowd-funding could really be successful in the non-mainstream world with his phenomenally successful 555% (Pledge Music) campaign, in 2014 Ginger...
View ArticleGUEST POST: Tom Ballard of Allfather – Top EP’s of 2018
We have a LOT of time for UK Sludgey Hardcore/Metal act Allfather. Not only is their new album And All Will Be Desolation (Rotting Throne) a beast of a record, they also possess an arsenal of MASSIVE...
View ArticleCloudburst – Cloudburst
One of the most appealing aspects of getting to listen to Cloudburst’s self-titled sophomore (Samstrong Records) effort is learning that they hail from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Through years of tape...
View ArticleKhaidian – Penumbra
London’s Khaidian, while not exactly new to the UK’s DIY metal scene, start 2019 off with ambition to set themselves apart from the herd. Not content to be catalogued as one thing or the other, the...
View ArticleMastiff – Plague
For the better part of the past six years, Hull’s Mastiff has been slowly festering in the underbelly of the UK’s underground scene. A handful of demos and 2016’s 'Wrank' set expectations for the band...
View ArticleOssuarium – Living Tomb
o you remember the scene in Ridley Scott’s Alien in which Harry Dean Stanton’s Brett gets offed by the titular space invader? Our younger readers may want to pull that up on YouTube, but the reason I...
View ArticleStarve To Survive – Have Me To Waste EP
Newcastle’s latest Hardcore reprobates Starve To Survive are back after a whole three years with a new EP, 'Have Me To Waste' (Caliber), hoping to make their own statement of intent and garner some of...
View ArticleMinors – Abject Bodies
When 'Atrophy' came out a year and a little bit ago, Ontario Hardcore outfit Minors made a lasting impression in their twenty-minute onslaught of Converge melancholy and frenetic All Pigs Must Die-like...
View ArticleChrome Waves – A Grief Observed
All the way back in 2010, former members of Wolvhammer, The Gates Of Slumber, and Amiensus formed Chrome Waves, but a focus on other projects meant that the band sat firmly on the backburner for many...
View ArticleNebula – Holy Shit
Holy Shit (Heavy Psych Sounds) is really the album title you want to go with for your fifth LP, Nebula? Okay, I can dig it. Do you know what else I can dig? The sheer variety of riffs and leads being...
View ArticleVictims – The Horse and Sparrow Theory
The Horse and Sparrow Theory (Relapse Records) really wants to let you know that Victims is about that Hardcore and D-beat life. Like every song on this bad boy is pre-loaded with that classic drum...
View ArticlePODCAST: Episode 57: Bobby Gustafson Talks Satan’s Taint and New Music
Ghost Cult caught up with Thrash Metal legend Bobby Gustafson recently for an interview. You know the name and the riffs of the man from his time in Overkill, but also Spudmonsters, and Cycle Sluts...
View ArticlePODCAST: Episode 64 – Matt Harvey of Exhumed Talks Death Metal, Horror and...
One of our favorite interviewees in person or the phone is Matt Harvey of Exhumed. Matt is as amazing to chat with as he is a guitarist and bandleader. Exhumed's new album is the aptly titled Horror...
View ArticleGhost Cult Album of the Year 2019 Part 3 (20-1)
And now, the end is near, and so we face the final curtain. My friends, we'll say it clear, we'll state our case, of which we're certain. We've lived a year that's full, and listened to each and every...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Kamchatka – Hoodoo Lightning
GC might have already released it's End of Year list, but that doesn't mean the machine stops rolling. There's always more to review. And Swedish stoner trio Kamchatka have dropped Hoodoo Lightning...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Elder – Omens
Did you daydream as a kid? Just stare off into nothing and let your imagination run wild? I did. A lot of my early childhood was spent amazed at what my mind could cook up with if I had a lack of books...
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