And it's Monday night in Manchester for Red Fang again. A schedule-stretching five bands took the stage at Moho Live. Of the supporting cast, the phenomenal Black Tusk were especially striking; a fireball of punk energy and savage beardy metal...

“Drop out of life with bong in hand Follow the smoke to-uh the riff-filled land”   Dopesmoker is baws out, the greatest album ever made. One song, over an hour long, louder than anything made before or after, has more doom in it...

For those unfamiliar with Anoice, they are a five-piece ensemble from Tokyo, whose members include Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata, whom you may already be familiar with, not only as solo musicians, but collectively in other projects such as RiLF and...

After seeing the name of the band 'Drokk' then listening to the track 'Justice One' (on Geoff Barrow's Invada compilation released a few months back), I asked Geoff Barrow if this incredible sci-fi drone dirge was part of a...

I'm on painkillers for a tooth I smashed on an Aldi poor-man's M&M, but the prospect of a full-length from Black Moth gets me through this drowsy personal Vietnam. With Bad Seed and Grinder-man Jim Sclavunos at the controls, 'The...

Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) cried at the end of The Wicker Man, “OH GOD, OH JEEEESUS CHRIIIST!” This is what was going through my head halfway through 'Oh Holy Molar's first song, 'The Bells': 'Oh god, oh Christ...

I had a worry before the first listen to the Scottish band Quickbeam that I wasn’t going to connect with their music, because in their biography they have compared their style to Bon Iver among others. I keep trying, but I just can’t get...

Holy Mountain are a three-piece from where I'm fae. Glasgow. I'd have went to see them the other night for the album launch if it wasn’t for the police from preventing me. Holy Mountain look like a real band. Three cunts with long hair...

Cancer 4 Cure, Jaime Meline aka El P's (El Producto) fourth album proper since going solo from Company Flow, launches itself like an agitated sentient Scud missile at the listener with its furious flurry of vicious bombastic rap drawls and...

'Half Blood' begins with a grinding garrulous bass that is, without a shadow of a doubt , the be-all-and-end-all of a tune that’s perfect for shagging to. Over this pounding bass, sleazy keys come in and some skagged-up guitars to give...