Richard Allsopp

  • Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still – Album Review

    Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still – Album Review

                     Pushing the boundaries of music can be somewhat of a double-edged sword. Sometimes you forget that uniqueness does not equal greatness and end up bulldozing the boundaries into a large pit full of…

  • Dark Fortress – ‘Spectres From the Old World’ Album Review

    Dark Fortress – ‘Spectres From the Old World’ Album Review

                     Following the progress of Black Metal from its church-burning neo-Nazi inception in Scandinavia in the 90’s is one hell of a rollercoaster ride. Tangled up in the white supremacist fantasies of psychotic unironic…

  • Serious Black – ‘Suite 226’ Album Review

    Serious Black – ‘Suite 226’ Album Review

    Power metal is a bit of a double edged sword. On one hand it’s innate overblown aesthetic and inherent catchiness make it pretty easy to get in to on the outset, on the other it…

  • Soilwork – Verkligheten Album Review (Guest Article)

    Soilwork – Verkligheten Album Review (Guest Article)

      How do you keep things sounding exciting eleven albums into your career? Do you go down the In Flames route and take stab at what you think the kids like these days with the…

  • Inferi – ‘Revenant’ Album Review

    Inferi – ‘Revenant’ Album Review

    Technical Death Metal is a bitchy mistress. Firstly being competent enough to actually pull it off is as challenging as a receiving oral from a racoon at 30,000 feet while juggling and secondly actually being…

  • Obscura – Diluvium Album Review

    Obscura – Diluvium Album Review

                    I’ve written about Obscura quite a lot in recent times. Largely because I’m an unapologetic fanboy of  both the artist and the genre but also because the…

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