Author: Azra Pathan

Album Review: Mayhem – Daemon
December 1, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Mayhem – Daemon

Feed Your Daemons! I’ve probably said this before, but I have always been a bit wary of death metal, maybe it’s the portrayal in the media and the focus on the Satanic elements, as opposed to the quality of the...
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Album Review: Marisa And The Moths – self titled debut album
November 29, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Marisa And The Moths – self titled debut album

The Butterfly Effect Crashing in through the front door, unannounced, feet on the coffee table, no pleasantries here folks is Reading outfit Marisa And The Moths, a veritable new- born in this game and by golly do they pack a...
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EP Review: The Wolf Howls When I Scream Your Name – Where Flies Will Reign
November 28, 2019 No Responses

EP Review: The Wolf Howls When I Scream Your Name – Where Flies Will Reign

Tears In The Reign We meet again folks for my second outing with TWHWISYN, and we have a definitive, measured sense of awareness and progress. The lads have harnessed a greater thought  process and sensitivity that heightens the listener’s attention...
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Single Review: Vildhjarta – Den Helige Anden
November 27, 2019 No Responses

Single Review: Vildhjarta – Den Helige Anden

For What We Are About To Receive… Albeit nine years later, we are truly grateful that our Swedish cousins Vildhjarta, have shown their hand before this year is up. It’s been a fantastic year for metal, and this wild card...
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Album Review: Ivy Crown – Echo
November 18, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Ivy Crown – Echo

Echo Chamber After the demise of Danish punk outfit Taras, we have a rebirth of sorts, a replenishment, in the shape of Ivy Crown, a merry band of metallers who invite you into the ‘Echo’ chamber and have a bash...
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Single Review and Poem: Ozzy Osbourne – Under The Graveyard
November 8, 2019 No Responses

Single Review and Poem: Ozzy Osbourne – Under The Graveyard

Aston Pride Around the corner from me used to live Ozzy Osbourne, it’s where he grew up, played, went to school, exactly the same as me. I’ve never met him but feel a  deep affinity and sense of belonging and...
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Album Review: Refused – War Music
November 7, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Refused – War Music

Everybody Needs A Swede! Remember this sprightly number from The Lorax ( replace ‘Swede’ with ‘Thneed’), well this is the punky and funky equivalent. It is a holler from the heart my friends, in these most fraught and fractious of...
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Album Review: Mighty Mighty – Misheard Love Songs
November 7, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Mighty Mighty – Misheard Love Songs

High And Mighty After a thirty- year hiatus -you get less time for murder- my yampy cousins from Brum have returned. After succumbing to the trials of life, like we all have to, they found it in their hearts and...
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Album Review: Fit For An Autopsy – The Sea Of Tragic Beasts
November 6, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Fit For An Autopsy – The Sea Of Tragic Beasts

Prey For Plagues Our New Jersey( did someone say Bon Jovi?) deathcore heroes return with their fifth album and we delve into the otherworldly sounding ‘The Sea Of Tragic Beasts’, the title conjures up all manner of fantastical creatures, each...
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Live Review: The Fallen State, Mallen, Fahran and The Cruel Knives at O2 Academy Birmingham
November 5, 2019 No Responses

Live Review: The Fallen State, Mallen, Fahran and The Cruel Knives at O2 Academy Birmingham

In- Fah-Mal Cruelty Evening ducklings gather round and listen very carefully, I have important matters to discuss. It was a busy evening with four bands on tonight, a great vibe inside the venue is always a good sign. What caused...
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