REVIEW: Mastodon - Marrow Deep
Few bands have had their careers so marred with loss yet have been so defined by it, and none have manage to cultivate that loss into something so distinct and irrevocably honest.
ARTICLES
LIVE FROM THE PIT: Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle and Return To Dust
Pulling up to the O2 Academy Brixton, you would be forgiven for shuddering at the extremely long snake protruding out of the entrance.
LIVE FROM THE PIT: Kataklysm, Vader and Blood Red Throne
A night of solid, old-school death metal, and for a Monday night after a long day of sticking it out at work, it was like sipping the crispiest, coolest glass of water in the world. Hell, it was more like fifteen glasses. T
REVIEW: Sabaton - Legends - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
They were the loudest historians in metal.
REVIEW: Paradise Lost - Ascension - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
The world seems an almost happy place in the years between PARADISE LOST releasing albums.
Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
It was like a thundercrack, everybody knew he was sick but nobody quite seemed to know just how sick he was.
LIVE FROM THE PIT: Back to the Beginning, the big Black Sabbath review - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Everyone’s feeling a little weird right now. The passing of something. Everyone knows it, but no one quite knows how to say it.
RANKED: The top 10 Green Lung songs - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Once upon a time in the smog-choked labyrinth of London’s doom metal underground scene, there was a band that clawed its way out of pint-stained floors and onto the grand stage - GREEN LUNG, hometown heroes, the underground success story.
LIVE FROM THE PIT: King Diamond, Unto Others, Paradise Lost - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Describing the weather before a gig may be a bit of an overused cliché for these types of reviews, but tonight the Roundhouse is suffering.
REVIEW: Sodom - The Arsonist - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Goooooooood morning, Vietnam.
INTERVIEW: A Symposium with Cwfen - Woad and White Wine with Glasgow’s Righteous Occultists - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
It has been tough figuring out how to write up Cwfen. They can’t be defined through simplistic means, nor do they fit snugly into one of the thousands of genres thought up by well-to-dos online. No, Cwfen are an entirely different beast.
REVIEW: Katatonia - Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
For nearly three decades, these Swedes have specialized in weaponized melancholy.
REVIEW: Rivers Of Nihil - Rivers Of Nihil - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Progressive death metal Pennamites Rivers of Nihil have produced another great record. What else is new?
LIVE FROM THE PIT: Desertfest 2025 - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
The sun is out. Greenland Place is rammed with people quaffing band-themed lagers, the vendors are out in full force, band shirts line the walls outside the Black Heart. The music is slow. The beers are amber.
REVIEW: Cwfen - Sorrows - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Once in a while, there’s a band that comes along that just seems to get everything right.
REVIEW: Candlemass - Black Star - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Oh CANDLEMASS, how beloved are thee.
REVIEW: Counting Crows - Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
To many they’re the band that feature on various film soundtracks and dominated many a bedroom of flannel-clad Hikkikomoris looking longingly at birds on telephone wires.
REVIEW: Melvins - Thunderball - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Explaining anything Melvins-related to the uninitiated is like trying to sell sand to Bedouins.
LIVE FROM THE PIT: Godsmack, P.O.D. and Drowning Pool - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Do you remember 2002?
Entry 1: Writing
How I write. And why.
LIVE FROM THE PIT: Wardruna and Jo Quail - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Kensington’s genteel atmosphere is disrupted with sounds woken from an age that sleeps far beneath the pavement.
REVIEW: Spiritworld - Helldorado - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
You could feel it under your feet. This low and malignant tremor stirring in the bones of the world. A sound without cognate and so without reckoning but incorporeal as spirits benighted out of the dark.
REVIEW: Kaiser - 2nd Sound - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
Imagine if you will; a truck - an old bastardized muscle machine, hurtling down an endless stretch of cracked desert highway. There’s a maniac behind the wheel with a left-handed cigarette burned down to the filter.
LIVE FROM THE PIT: Opeth, Grand Magus - OUT OF RAGE NETWORK
The forceful words slither into the ears of the devoted, a congregation swaying in a ritualistic delirium. Some are weeping. Parts of the crowd hold hands in a Danse Macabre. Arms go up in religious fervour. It is a garden of unearthly delights, and every soul here partakes in the fruit.
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