Devil's Horns Zine

Death by a 1000 Bullets: Incredible Mixed Releases: Abramelin, Crypt Crawler, DÖ, Better Lovers and Fat Monica. These are the dog bollocks, concise short reviews of shit you need to buy now. Got it, now read, buy and thank me later fuckface. We have a blindingly awesome selection of releases here. Let's go and get into these bangers. THESE ARE WICKED RELEASES!!!  ABRAMELIN-SINS OF THE FATHER. Just like it's filthy previous release, this drips in growly, old school death metal free of bullshit. Melbourne really is the kingpin of Death Metal with Werewolves and these lunatics. Are you expecting anything new or progressive; prepare to be disappointed ; but if you want sledgehammers to the face of gnarly drums, riffs and vocals you will be excited. The lyrics are as rotten as expected, but hey it's not like Obituary or Cannibal Corpse write modern prose. All ten tracks are insane, brutal and produced in the right manner. Buy this and play it loud, because this is what Death Met...

  Sugar Horse-The Grand Scheme of Things album review and awesome deep dive with Ash. I was super stoked when a chance came to review the new album from Bristol four-piece Sugar Horse(whose earlier works I adored) and the opportunity to interview their vocalist/guitarist Ash. The review is below, but the conversation was as dazzling and deep as the album. Sugar Horse-The Grand Scheme of Things. What a perfectly named album. Nine sizeable, well monolithic tracks that impressed the fuck out of me. And as in the interview and as per this presser, the band sought to not simply release an album that was a copy of their earlier work: On Grand Scheme Of Things, Sugar Horse comment: "This album was intended to be a sideways step. A move away from the kind of thing that is expected of us… if anything is at all. What I mean by that, is the songs are more direct. They take a much shorter amount of time to “get to the point”. We also wanted to make this one noticeably “less Metal”. While we l...

Born of a Bastard King Interview with…….(Scott Masson) DHZ- Give me the brief of how your brilliant band came about, what is the purpose of the band and feel free to give us any prior bands-relevant or not? Scott It's hard to describe what Born Of A Bastard King is in a few short sentences, so I'll try to keep this story as brief and as entertaining as possible. 'Bastard King' originally started off as one thing but then evolved into something else. The band was started by me (Scott Masson) in 2023 but it wasn't called Born Of A Bastard King it was a metalcore/deathcore project called '28 Bulls' and was never intended to become anything more than just a recording project. After years of being a musician and years of releasing over 20+ records with different bands and projects I was officially burnt out. I decided to leave my band 'Outer Worlds' after the release of our second album and I was honestly planning on retiring. Before I walked off into the...

  Ash interview with Rick on the eve of their latest Australian Tour. What a classic band that has been kicking on for 30 years. Hard to believe, and it's damn impressive that they are still dropping sensational albums like the latest Race the Night. This has all the charm of the classic albums, with some added heavy focus mixed with the harmonic vocal gems they are known for. I was lucky enough to chat with their awesome drummer and all-around legend Rick on the eve of their current tour here. We chatted about: -how the industry has changed and now how it is less about the whole album for many artists/labels -the highlights of their career so far -how Ash similarly to Supergrass has a deeper and more comprehensive catalogue compared to some of their peers from back in the day -how the new songs fit into the current set -Race the Night; how it is a solid mix of past and present  -the killer artwork on the cover -discuss various tracks from the release and chat about the expand...

  Hotlung-In Spite of album review. FFO: Hardcore/Post-HC and all the great stuff.Epic. Sometimes I hate life, we get busy between work, family, bands, zine yada yada blah blah. I state this because requests we have for so much music have been flat-out and I have to put releases aside, to make sure I give them both the space to be listened to and then a balanced review. One of these has been one of the best debut albums I have heard in ages. Hot Lung is a post-punk/hardcore gem from Santa Cruz, California with two well-known musos in Kelly from Daxma and Joe from Fury 66 and The Deathless. So you know you will get a raucous mix of melody and jarring(in a great way)riffs that will drill into your skull, we are talking about a solid memorable album of seven dazzling anthems. It drifts between indie rock and mostly Melodic hardcore and post-hardcore/punk.  I love the flavours across this album, how it has gorgeous indie-style harmonies, but can also bounce to a hectic moshpit fre...