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Seattle-based doom band Breag Naofa’s Untitled album is a veritable maelstrom of death, doom and despair. The six piece claim that their “socio/political ideas all differ slightly. The common thread throughout Breag Naofa’s ideology is that religion still poisons every aspect of the human experience
ALBUM: Napalm Death – Utilitarian
31 years into their career Napalm Death have proved with Utilitarian that they have still got what it takes to keep up with the ever-changing scene.
ALBUM: The Menzingers – On the Impossible Past
The third offering from Pennsylvanian peddlers of pop-punk is littered with melodies that fans of a harder vein of the ever-increasing genre ‘punk’ may find too tame, and may even go so far as to call ‘emo’.
ALBUM: Bleeding Through – The Great Fire
Over a decade on and O.C. hardcore gothers Bleeding Through have delivered their most volatile record to date. The Great Fire rages on through 14 tracks, barely lending time to run for the hills. The onslaught of a darker but intense mood underpins their sixth studio album and it’s not hard to glean that Bleeding Through are more in touch with their hardcore roots than ever before.
Just as Sixx:A.M.’s ‘The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack’ was an album recorded to coincide with the release of Nikki Sixx’s book ‘The Heroin Diaries’, the latest release by Nikki Sixx et al. is to accompany his latest book release due out in May this year. With newly appointed Guns n’ Roses guitarist DJ Ashba still on board, the band have become somewhat more of a serious, solid group and not just a studio band dabbling in records.
ALBUM: Funeral for a Friend, Welcome Home Armageddon
Any rumours you might’ve heard about this being a ‘return to the old Funeral for a Friend’ or the band’s ‘heaviest album yet’ we’re about to quash… because, although there are heavy elements on this, the Welsh favourites fifth album, the real theme running throughout the record is that of a pop-punk masterpiece
ALBUM: Darkest Hour, The Human Romance
This is the seventh release from D.C.’s melodic death metallers Darkest Hour, and if you’re not a fan of this band already after seven albums and 16 years, ‘The Human Romance’ will do little to persuade you otherwise. The strict formula that Darkest Hour have stuck to over the years when it comes to producing albums has clearly served them well and this album is certainly no exception to their rule.
