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Pasadena Napalm Division : Pasadena Napalm Division
Posted on May 21, 2013 | No CommentsThere aren’t many albums that I can say genuinely changed my whole musical outlook, but one which certainly achieved that was D.R.I.’s Crossover waaaay back in 1987. Up to that point... -
Trucker Diablo : Songs of Iron
Posted on May 15, 2013 | No CommentsThe CackBlabbath crew have been impatiently salivating in anticipation of Trucker Diablo’s second album for quite a while now. Having caught up with the band all over the British Isles... -
Godsized : Time
Posted on May 10, 2013 | No CommentsBeen a long time coming this one, and it’s fair to say that here at CackBlabbath we’ve been positively salivating with anticipation waiting for Godsized’s debut full length release. The... -
Hatchet : Dawn Of The End
Posted on May 10, 2013 | No CommentsThere are loads of bands who are labelled as Old School Thrash, and they vary as widely in their sound as they do in the quality of their offerings. You... -
Entrails : Raging Death
Posted on May 2, 2013 | No CommentsEntrails deal in Old School Death Metal…or “Proper Music” as I will tell my kids in the future. Having first surfaced during the glory days of the Stockholm Death Scene... -
Whitechapel : The Somatic Defilement (reissue)
Posted on April 25, 2013 | No CommentsHearing that a band are releasing a reissue of an album which only came out six years ago is always going to prompt the question, why? This was my first... -
Drowning Pool : Resilience
Posted on April 23, 2013 | No CommentsDrowning Pool have had an uneasy ride of it since they appeared back in the heyday of the Nu Metal years over a decade ago. I must confess I’ve always... -
Flotsam and Jetsam : Ugly Noise
Posted on April 23, 2013 | No CommentsFlotsam and Jetsam are a band who have gone through several name changes, numerous line-up changes, caused uncountable arguments about what genre they can be pigeon holed in and have... -
Visions of Atlantis : Ethera
Posted on April 23, 2013 | No CommentsHailing from Styria, Austria, the founding members of Visions of Atlantis cited their influences as fellow symphonic power metal band Nightwish and the age old myth of Atlantis. Indeed their... -
GloryHammer : Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
Posted on April 23, 2013 | No CommentsWarning: expect overuse of the word ‘epic’. GloryHammer is the power metal brainchild of Christopher Bowes, keyboardist and singer of pirate metal band Alestorm. This a concept album set in...