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The Wandering Midget - The Serpent Coven Eyes Like Snow/Northern Silence - EYE006 - By Paddy Walsh With a sizeable void left by the regrettable demise of Reverend Bizarre last year, a slew of pretenders appear to be emerging, each intent on carrying the epic torch carried for so long by the...

The Amenta - Non Listenable Records - POSH108 - 20 October 2008 By Paddy Walsh These Australian industrial extremists caused a minor stir back in 2004 with The Occasus, which was a great stab at cold, clinical blackened metal with an industrial overcoat. Non builds on that success, and what's...

Lustmord - [Other] Hydra Head - HYH-157 - 1 September 2008 By Paddy Walsh Lustmord has been knocking about in some shape or form since the halcyon days of the early Industrial movement in the 1980s. Having worked with the likes of Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Current 93 and Coil, he then struck...

Suicide Silence - The Cleansing Century Media - CD9977342 - 19 February 2008 By Paddy Walsh One of the more hotly touted bands of the oft-maligned 'deathcore' movement, this Californian fivesome at least boast myriad influences, from death metal, grind, black metal, hardcore and...

Cripple Bastards - Variante Alle Morte FETO Records - FETO-0014 - 13 October 2008 By Paddy Walsh Cripple Bastards may be familiar to grind afficionados, as they've been peddling their punky grindcore snce 1988, albeit mostly in the form of various demo tapes and 7" (in the grand indie spirt...

List your most anticipated albums for next year, here's mine (most of which are thusfar untitled): Alice in Chains - ? Mastodon - Crack the Skye Smashing Pumpkins - ? Porcupine Tree - ? Deftones - Eros Negura Bunget - ? Depeche Mode - ? Anaal Nathrakh - ? Morbid Angel - ? I'll probably edit...

Opeth/Cynic/The Ocean Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland - 18 November 2008 By Paddy Walsh Photography by Simon Ward Yon scribe shamefully descended upon Dublin's Vicar Street mid-way through US prog-death legends Cynic, only to brazenly proceed straight to the bar in an act of sheer, thirst-ridden...

Fate - Vultures Metal Blade - SPV081-105812 - 21 April 2008 By Paddy Walsh Joining the ranks of innumerable other bands of such stock this year, Fate enter the cluttered fray with their deathcore debut, Vultures. As you might expect, what we're served is the requisite blend of metalcore and...

Satyricon - The Age of Nero Roadrunner Records - RR78932 - 3 November 2008 By Paddy Walsh Although Satyricon are always a fairly reliable proposition, '06's Now, Diabolical may have taken the foot off the pedal just that bit too much. Efforts to consolidate the successful mid-paced...

The Berzerker - The Reawakening Berzerker Industries - 1 September 2008 By Paddy Walsh Many of you may be aware of The Berzerker, as they've been a fixture on Earache's roster for 4 albums worth of their industrial/gabba/death/grind hybrid. The Reawakening, the band's 5th album, sees Aussie...

Burning the Prospect - No Great Design FETO Records - FETO0015 - 13 October 2008 By Paddy Wash Burning the Prospect play brutal d-beat hardcore punk (of the variety that was pioneered by the hugely influential Discharge back in the 80s), and No Great Design could be counted as their first...

Skitliv - Amfetamin Cold Spring Records - CSR90CD - 29 April 2008 By Paddy Walsh Skitliv, for the unitiated, is the latest project for ex-Mayhem vocalist Maniac, and he's joined on this 44 minute EP by Kvarforth (Shining) and various guests, including Current 93's David Tibet and Mayhem's...

Sanguis Imperem - The Stagnation of Centuries Independent - June 2008 By Paddy Walsh This MCD from Californian death metal trio Sanguis Imperem comes hot on the heels of last year's MMVII demo. First off; these guys operate on a sort of militaristic, battle-friendly plane within the death...

Sorrowfall - Prayers of the Faithless MCMO Records - 3 August 2007 By Paddy Walsh Irish UM readers may be familiar with Northern Ireland's Sorrowfall, as they've been a reliable fixture on the local live circuit for the last few years. Young upstarts in the realm of blackened thrash...

Triac - Blue Room Forcefield/Reptillian Records - FF007/REP102 - May 2008 By Paddy Walsh Punishing and filthy grind is what Triac are all about, and this blink-and you'll-miss-it EP (available on both cd and a nicely packaged, limited to 500 copies 7") delivers just that. Opener 'Feeder'...

HORSE The Band - A Natural Death Koch Records - KOCCD4228 - 28 August 2008 By Paddy Walsh Being both intrigued and annoyed by the 'Nintendocore' tag thrust on HORSE's shoulders, A Natural Death was approached with a degree of suspicion. A pleasant surprise it was, then, to discover...

Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game in Town Hydra Head - HYH-159 - 3 June 2008 By Paddy Walsh Inhabiting a similar sphere as the Melvins, Corrosion of Conformity and others within the 'punky-Sabbath-sludge-cum-rock' genre, Harvey Milk have returned after a lengthy hiatus to produce Life...

Withered - Folie Circulaire Prosthetic Records - 10059-2 - 24 June 2008 By Paddy Walsh Although a fleeting listen to Withered's second release (and 1st on Prosthetic) throws obvious nods to punk/grind roots, Folie Circulaire is a deceptively eclectic work that commands repeated listens...

Metallica - Death Magnetic 12 September 2008 By Paddy Walsh In what is possibly the musical surprise of 2008, Metallica bounce back from the career-flagellating shitheap that was '03's St. Anger. Death Magnetic is indeed much better that its predecessor - although I might as well be...

Theatres Des Vampires - Anima Noir Aural Music - Aura005 - 2 May 2008 By Paddy Walsh Those of you interested in Italian goth metal staples Theatres Des Vampires would do well to ignore the hammy 'Vampiric Metal' tag, as it's a peurile and singles them out for more ridicule than they...