Mantar – The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze album review By Connie Gordon German duo Mantar add more oxygen to the flames with The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze
Axegrinder – Satori album review By Connie Gordon UK crustpunks Axegrinder dust themselves down after a 30-year hiatus with Satori
Septic Tank – Rotting Civilisation By Connie Gordon Lee Dorrian rounds up a crew of 80s hardcore punk obsessives for Septic Tank
Ministry - AmeriKKKant album review By Connie Gordon Mad Uncle Al Jourgensen resurrects his outlaw industrial harbingers
Howling Sycamore - Howling Sycamore album review By Connie Gordon Ephel Duath frontman leads a roll call of experimental extremity
Primal Rite - Dirge Of Escapism album review By Connie Gordon Bay Area crossover crew battle against the knobs
Marginal - Total Destruction album review By Connie Gordon Belgian grind crew keep churning up the beaten track
Autopsy - Puncturing The Grotesque album review By Connie Gordon Classic death metal battery from Bay Area veterans
Gnaw - Cutting Pieces album review By Connie Gordon Seasoned sonic assaulters reveal more madness than method
Friendship - Hatred album review By Connie Gordon Japan’s shadowy noise outfit find multiple ways to mangle
Nuisance Of Majority - Savage Ritual album review By Connie Gordon German noise-makers kick several shades of shit out of the speakers
Complete Failure - Crossburner album review By Connie Gordon Grind steelers start to wield their own power tools
Usnea - Portals Into Futility album review By Connie Gordon Glacial, cinematic suffering from Portland’s funeral doom crew
All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal album review By Connie Gordon Hardcore punk crew widen their radius of destruction
Implore - Subjugate album review By Connie Gordon Bleak but brilliant crust-infused DM from Italian n’erdowells
Rescue Rangers - Join Hate album review By Connie Gordon Gallic heavy rockers find friends in high places
Mastiff - Bork album review By Connie Gordon Northern miserablists play fast and loose with the sludge template
Low Flying Hawks - Genkaku album review By Connie Gordon Wringing more low-slung mayhem from the Melvins’ larder
Grant The Sun - Grant The Sun album review By Connie Gordon Nordic noisemakers career along the sonic spectrum
Leng Tch’e - Razorgrind album review By Connie Gordon Belgian grind institution complete their renewal
Broken Hope - Mutilated And Assimilated album review By Connie Gordon Death metal greybeards slip off the comeback trail
Tombs - The Grand Annihilation album review By Connie Gordon NY’s experimental black metal crew throw in some more shades
