The prospect of a brutal death metal alternative to the Teutonic alcohol thrashers Tankard is a fun one, because the suds must flow across a...

Xentrix was a competent if unexceptional British thrash band that, after two worthwhile albums and a goofy cover of the Ghostbusters theme...

It would be challenging enough to put together an album the quality of Remnants of Crumbling Empires while standing in the same room as o...

Fen are gearing up for a big year in 2011, both with the release of their eagerly anticipated sophomore Epoch and this split with a newish...

In this day, Anathema have so far removed themselves from the epic doom of their waking years that any comparison of the two poles will com...

England's Sabbat were a band I was very positive were going to conquer the entire fucking planet, so promising was their scathing 1988 d...

By 1987, there is no question that the world was moving on from the style of music performed by a band like Satanic Rites , melodic hard roc...

Female fronted NWOBHM bands were not entirely unheard of, what with Rock Goddess and the more famous Girlschool covering the more blunt ed...

The time has come around for another Cradle of Filth album, and if your head is not already dowsed in a pail of your own vomit, you might b...

The prospect of a Tank without founding bassist/vocalist Algy Ward is a frightening one. I simply did not want to believe it could ev...