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  Werewolves-What A Time To Be Alive album review. FFO: Dirty, unhinged sick as gonorrhoea death metal with enough tech touches to make it modern; yet old school as. Werewolves are determined and productive units that is for sure. I mean the amazing debut The Dead are Screaming was only released in April last year FFS!!. But these legends have dropped another ripper of an album; that is as staggering and even more brutish than the previous album. But keep it coming you blokes, because no one is stepping up to the plate compared to the merciless masterpieces you are putting out. The question you may ponder is; is this just more of the same raging shit that blew your eardrums last time?, argh yes but slightly different in that there is more added thrash metal and even black metal touches for extra flavour and bloodthirsty insanity vocally for bitterness. Dave Haley seems intent on playing more intense and even drumming faster than previous bands and there is no fat on this album, jus...

  Interview with Eos....black metal perfection and pure ruthless intent personified. This band is what extreme music should be. Unhinged, determined and going for the jugular. Seriously their album The Great Ascension just   gets better with each listening session. Favourite tracks change often and that is a quality characteristic, and it clearly shows how focused the effort is on every part of the barbaric release. I had the chance to interview this band and their responses show the absolute intensity and authenticity paralleled in their unrivalled musical exploits. Enjoy and keep an eye out for their future endeavours, because this brilliant act is abrasive workmanship with purpose. The Eos Interview: DH- Greetings, the corrosive wonder that is The Great Ascension came out last month and was met with the stellar reviews that it definitely deserves. I have two starting points for this conversation: how did this mysterious band come into existence and were you surprised at how...

  Entrapment-s/t album review. FFO: Proper hardcore, no pretension. Yes, I fucking realise this dropped mid last year, but we know 2020 was a dogshit year. So it's still catchup for releases worth your time.  This is Gold Coast hardcore that's all punchy, killer and hectic. Entrapment has strong vibes of old school hardcore in the style of Poison Idea, The Germs and even Toe to Toe or early Mindsnare. Riffs dominate as much as the gritty vocals and nothing is over the top or wasted here. Just straight solid hardcore with great lyrics and moshpit inspired dynamics.  This debut is eight killer tracks that are equally catchy and combative. The aggression never stops and has an imposing harmony beneath all the calculated chaos. Highlights for my ears were: Failures -a well angry song with decent groove, War of Words -don't know what it is with this track, it simply rips and is addictive as hell and those lyrics are incredible (has to be a solid back story to this track), The ...

  Sanctioned-Annexation album review. FFO: 90's Grindcore with a solid hardcore foundation. Sanctioned is a solid three-piece band made up of seasoned players in the Australian metal/hardcore community. And indeed their experience shines in the brilliantly brutal document that is Annexation . From the phenomenal and uncompromising album art to the stellar production; this album is exceptionally ill-tempered and at the same time is captivating. The intersection between brutality and melody seems to be the prime objective here. Overall, the band has a musical style that drifts very confidently between 90's Grindcore (harking back to the crust influenced grindcore that we purists hold so dear) and hardcore.  They blatantly declare their love of fantastic bands like His Hero is Gone, Assuck and Disrupt, but this is only a small part of their overall sound. It is fair to say what they have created is refreshingly original. The band members tastes are pretty diverse and this is what...

  Thammuz-Into the Great Unknown album review. FFO: Stoner, fuzz, sludge and all groovy psychrock. Each year I fortunately or unfortunately have the pleasure of getting sent fuckloads of albums to listen and potentially review. Now many genres...like beatdown, stoner stuff and hardcore is beyond generic, it's just downright shit. But I dig this album heaps. Everything is so damn head-tilting and textured. It reminds me of seeing bands of the highest standard slaying at festivals. This album sounds pretty damn festivalesque. The guitars are trippy, the vibe is dynamically stoner and the whole thing is well produced. This dutch band do this genre so well. It pretty much sounds like the best of Clutch crossed with gold standard Monster Magnet, so none of that lame arse Soundgarden fake hippy bullshit. The riffs are the size of a mountain, vocals are gritty and sound drugfucked, which this genre needs and each song differs from the others. I dug most of this album but tracks like the t...

  Eos-The Great Ascension album review. FFO: Black Metal and mental unravelling music. This nasty debut took its sweet time considering it was started some six years ago, but it is well worth it. Again Australian extreme metal is some of the world’s best and this personifies just how far we are ahead of the pack. This is harsh, old schoolish black metal that punishes the listener. The production is not quite old school, in that it is quality and not some trash can shit that old BM sounded like. The reward to the real music fan is nasty and abrasive metal that has some Amebix-like vibes. Dark, disturbing and yet slightly hooky with the riffs. All wrapped in a pure psychotic cloak. This mysterious three-piece act, which obviously contains some well-established artists given the masterful songwriting and precise playing are as epic as the classic acts and could slay a stadium like more current bands like Behemoth.  All seven tracks have their own unholy merits, but you will repea...

  Seum-Summer of Seum EP review. FFO: Dirty, Gritty Bass driven Sludge/Doom done perfectly. Seum are a "Doom 'N Bass trio from Montreal that will shatter your speakers and get you headbanging and foot-tapping like a crazed mofo. There is no guitar at all, but the way these guys utilise the bass and drums to smother you in sound is remarkably astonishing. The six tracks that make up this fabulous release that dropped in the latter part of 2020 all flow fantastically well and even on a decently loud volume via Youtube you feel your innards dissolving from the heaviness of the overall sound. It broadly is in the Sludge/Doom/Stoner genre, but is far from generic. The whole thing literally overwhelms you with its big arse riffs and it has an enormous muddy, murky and at the same time groovy sound base. This is matched with vocals that are strained and almost like Venom...it's a deranged mix that works flawlessly. Since this EP that did an amazing Prince cover and more recently ...

 No Coffin-Ugly, Broke, Decayed EP review. FFO: Distortion, Hardcore, raw aggression. Yes, a very untimely late review, but I encourage you to check out this awesome and nasty EP from No Coffin-what I would class as a perfect mix of thrash hardcore with growly and almost doomy vocals and real severe abrasive tone on all instruments. It's like Slayer had a deformed baby that was a result of Madball fucking early Converge, weird analogy but I'll be a foster dad to that vibe anytime. This Florida headcase band can play really fucking well, the riffs are epic and all four tracks are hooky and heavy. I dug how as the EP progressed the songs got longer. I sussed their live set on Youtube and they lift the songs even more so on the live front. I dug how they mix the best parts of raw hardcore with both thrash and crossover. This EP grows on your like some nasty sexually transmitted disease and deserves repeated plays. All tracks are heavy and amazing, they also have some rad visualise...