Well, it’s been an eventful couple of weeks for me on the personal front, losing a wonderful person and reuniting with another, so this time my issue of Repeat Offenders...

The more extreme and aggressive ends of heavy music tend to benefit from having incredibly short run times. Slayer’s Reign In Blood is ten tracks in under half an hour, Scum by...

We often hear of the might and excellence of Scandinavian black metal, but little do we hear of Mexican black metal. Today I will be taking a look at one...

I first ran into SKAM when they supported Stone Broken at the Sugarmill in Stoke-on-Trent, alongside Those Damn Crows - which became the first gig I ever reviewed. I wasn’t...

Blackened Blues. This is the first term I heard in association with Black Totem. Intrigued, I knew I had to check out Black Totem further, a band who blend a...

  Pretty Reckless - And So It Went The Pretty Reckless is a group that I always find myself coming back to, whether it's stumbling across them on my recommended...

Birmingham stoner/punk duo God Shame The Queen formed a few short months ago in the middle of the pandemic. With little else to do but jam out, the songs wrote...

Chez Kane (S/T Debut Album) Release Date: 12th March 2021 / Frontiers Music SRL Let's start off with a brief statement and description: Excited for the Old School. If you're...

Caz Parker recently caught up with Norman Matthew of Texas duo As Strange As Angels to talk about their single 'The Curse', life in lockdown and future plans and of...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe This was near enough the first song I learned to play on guitar when I was beardless, squeaky-voiced and about a foot smaller...

It’s a testament to the creativity of the extreme metal scene that the genres that comprise it have so much internal variety that even an outside can identify the contrast...

Describing themselves as Dutch Sludge / Stoner Rock, Komatsu released their fourth album ‘Rose Of Jericho’ at the beginning of this month. The band have been together since 2010 and...

Austrian post black metal outfit Harakiri For The Sky are back at it with another enchanting and mystifying record under the name ‘Mære’ and have provided us with ten detailed...

The Nova Hawks are from the West Midlands and are made up of Heather Leoni and Rex Roulette. Being signed to Frontiers Records last year is an accomplishment in itself...

Royal Republic – Fireman and Dancer Its been two years since Club Majesty was released and I still religiously listen to Fireman and Dancer whenever I need a quick pick...

Arc Of Life - Frontier Records (Dave Kerzner, Billy Sherwood, Jimmy Haun, Jay Schellen and Jon Davison) Released Feb 12th 2021 Back when I was 14 (more than a few...

In the 7 years that I have been of age to attend gigs by myself, I have had the pleasure of seeing The Pretty Reckless twice in the sticky main...

It’s exciting to learn that Antony Ellis has resurfaced with a new outfit. ‘Kreek’ were actually formed back in 2019 after Ant had left ‘Bigfoot’, (A much loved band, who have...

A few years ago, I could barely tolerate to listen to anything slower than mid-paced thrash. As time has gone on and my tastes have matured, I’ve begun to appreciate...

There you go - another take on MMH Repeat Offenders of us working behind the scenes in admin. Let's just say that "we work in the dark, to serve the...

DIO Evil or Divine – Live in New York City Holy Diver – Live – London Between the 1963 release of Peter, Paul and Mary’s song Puff the Magic Dragon...

The heavy metal world is full of contrasts and contradictions. There are the devout and faithful that stick to the rule book in their quest for a heavy purity. Then...

Brian Meacham – 7even Two One Hundred My phone lit up with a text message simply saying, “check your email”. On doing so the subject field was populated with “have...

Hey music fans! The names Rachel and I usually do all our fun admin stuff behind the scenes but when I got the chance to talk about my favourite songs...

I had the pleasure of meeting these guys in 2019 at Nozfest, which is held at the 1865 in Southampton and organised splendidly by Jodie Bowie. That day on home...

January is the time of year that I like to reflect on the music from the last year I loved and anything I overlooked. That said there’s always room for...

Although I adore Accept classics like Fast as a Shark and Fight It Back, I do have a lot of the band’s latest work on regular rotation. Think Stalingrad, Teutonic...

After a hefty delay from the middle of the last year we are almost at the point where Wardruna’s ‘Kvitravn’ is finally upon us. Was it worth the wait? Let’s...

Massachusetts power trio Black Pyramid take a look to their past by reissuing their first LP, long out of print. Their self-titled debut album was first released in 2009 and...

Jeff Scott Soto adds class to every band he’s involved with and W.E.T. is no exception. A vocalist to be admired whatever type of music you listen to. This collaboration...

Electronic industrial legends Front Line Assembly dependably never stay away from the studio for long and the latest creation is this new album, 'Mechanical Soul'. Out now on Metropolis Records,...

After over a decade as frontwomen for the UK punk band Muncie Girls, Lande Hekt has stepped into her own solo career putting together her first full debut album ‘Going...

Scandinavia has seen the rise of many excellent black and death metal bands over recent decades and this still remains true into 2021. Aethyrick have brought us their third full-length...

Do you remember when these guys were on Eurovision in 2005? If you are a Norwegian glam rock lover, it’s embedded in your heart, as part of your musical heritage....

**This offering for Repeat Offenders has been extensively curated like i've been on the sesh for 12 months. Can you imagine that? It would put Nikki Sixx's past experiences to...

The nostalgic quality of metal is an undying art. Thousands of bands across the globe pay tribute to the heroes of old, some floundering as dreadful rip offs whilst others...

Sumeru, a sludge metal band from Sydney, Australia, see in the new year with a blistering EP that introduces new vocalist Jake Willoughby to the fold as the band approach...

A surprise release from Arizona’s Gatecreeper dropped today via Closed Casket Activities, which gives us a short but very sweet dose of heavy to keep our spirits high. Usually, Gatecreeper...

‘Dead Planets’ is the latest offering from composer and artist Nigel Sanders and The nss58 project. It follows on from the 2019 EP ‘Motorbreath’ which was first released under the...

Texas is certainly becoming a global hotspot for fresh, brutal and visceral new heavy metal. From the likes of Power Trip, Creeping Death and now to Frozen Soul I’m sure...

A feel-good, empowering album for all generations of rockers, ‘Turning to Ashes' sends a message of finding yourself and finding power. I’m a first-time listener of the American Hard Rock...

The outstanding debut album from Hunted By Elephants, ‘Rise Of The Elephant’ came out in 2019 and a couple of singles from it ‘Unnamed’ and ‘Human Eyes’ even brought them...

Repeat Offenders - by Maria Glover   Okay, I thought this would be easier than it actually was - there is so much great music out there and so much...

Welcome all to this week’s ‘Repeat Offenders’, I’ll be your host today – MJ, I’m usually found hosting the weekly Thrash Bash show every Wednesday from 6PM – 8PM GMT...

Does a review of an instrumental ambient album sit comfortably on a predominantly heavy metal website/radio station? I’d like to think so, after all I used to present ‘The Dark...

Hollywood Undead have been a personal favourite since I was in my teens, always doing their rounds at parties. This 12-track album, "New Empire - Vol 2",  is definitely an...

EP Review - 'Fools Empire' by JSA   London-based alt rockers JSA have released their second EP, ‘Fools Empire’ and it’s a great blend of alternative styles, from punk to...

I have a wide choice of albums to review each month and tend to pick those that stand out a little. So I decided to check out Nightblade’s latest, purely...

I delve once more into the review pile to look for something not necessarily metal to review for the esteemed rock and metal website that is MMH. This time my...

  Tina C. here, it’s my turn this week on our weekly blog ‘Repeat Offenders’ where I get to choose five tracks that I just can’t stop playing right now....

The third album from the Swedish band, that now have Franco Santunione on board. Franco, best known as Ex-lead guitarist with the Electric Boys, has also produced ‘Rambler’ for Black...

The task of choosing five songs never far from the player lands with me, your resident purveyor of all things weird. I could have chosen ten easily, or even hundreds...

Released initially in 2000, Belphegor's third offering became an underground classic. Mixing brutal death metal, black metal, a touch of technicality, and a sound that just oozes unholiness and Satan,...

Heretical Sect's first full-length album is on its way. A relatively unknown act, with no social media apart from Bandcamp (as far as I could see), the blackened death metal...

This week it’s my turn to throw 5 tracks your way. Not a difficult task I thought, until it came to choosing just 5 ! Being a reviewer, I get...

As I sat on my sofa to write this review, my wife who has never listened to Sólstafir piped up “This is strange.” That sums up why it is in...

English gothic metal band Paradise Lost are due to release a special addition of their 1995 album Draconian Times, on 4th December, celebrating its 25th Anniversary. This was the band's...

  This is it , the last review of 1980 , there has been some great releases during the past 12 months , however December wasn't one of them, here...

Ocean Grove - Sunny Ocean Grove are easily one of the most exciting bands around at the moment. Their latest albums blend of hip hop and metal makes for one...

  Grand Theft Audio are back!!! Caz Parker recently caught up with them to talk about the release of their first new music in twenty years, a new album, life...