Articles by Simon Brand

The prolific Justin Broadrick may well be one of the most influential men in the world of metal. Helping forge a path for Grindcore with his work with the infamous Napalm Death, pioneering Industrial Metal […]

Continuing the trend of Finish avant-garde black metal from last week’s Oranssi Pazuzu, this week we present to you with the similarly placed, similarly skilled and similarly styled quintet of Ikuinen Kaamos. The idea of […]

Many bands walk the thin line in the Avant-Garde genre between actually interesting ideas and pretentiousness. Harmony Bay’s first album most definitely falls on the side of the former, but unfortunately ‘Idiomiasmatic Grasshopper’s Unprincipled Jest’ […]

Sitting on the throne of insane-asylum death-metal since its release in 1998, Obscura has left listeners young and old scratching, banging and pounding their heads with its complete disregard for tonality, standard structures and your […]

Florida has spawned many influential bands in its time. One of these many (and the greatest in this writer’s opinion) were Death/Fusion metal band, Cynic, who in turn spawned many bands of their own. Gordian […]

So, you look at this band and you think “Oh, another black/death metal band to sit and saturate an already overflowing market”. You would only be half right there. Emptiness is a strange beast, it […]

On paper, Desecrated Internal Journey doesn’t look like much. First release from a French band with your average black metal band member pseudonyms released by a label specialising in lo-fi extreme BM albums. The more […]

Since it’s conception, I have always been weary of Mathcore. It’s a genre with a very, very fine line of what is interesting and intelligent, and what is just at 30 minute-odd mindless atonal wank-session. […]

You know THAT friend that you had in high school? The one who is clinically insane and can usually do some pretty odd things with his body? Well, this one can burp non-stop, and he […]

Unless you’ve been living under a gargantuan boulder for the last sixteen years or stumbled upon this review by taking a series of wrong turns on the way to Justin Beiber’s website, you’ll probably own […]