Exclusive Song Premiere Of Cinematic Doom/Post-Metallers BEWARE OF GODS New Song "OCEAN OF TEETH (HAUNTED BY THE GLIMPSE OF A WHITE LIGHT)"

Beware Of Gods is a cinematic sci-fi doom project created by The Archetype, merging crushing low-end heaviness with dystopian mythology, industrial textures, and philosophical storytelling. Drawing influence from Neurosis, Godflesh, ISIS, Ministry, and Swans, the project exists at the intersection of doom metal and speculative fiction — where albums unfold like films and songs function as chapters in a larger mythos.

Rather than focusing on genre alone, Beware Of Gods builds immersive worlds around its music, giving listeners something they can inhabit as much as hear.

This is the final chapter in the Upon Whom The Last Light Descends trilogy, Behead The Oracle completes a sprawling narrative about false prophets, algorithmic gods, and the collapse of meaning in a hyper-controlled future.

Musically, the album expands the project’s sound with heavier industrial elements, ritualistic rhythms, and vast cinematic atmospheres layered over massive doom riffs. The result is an emotionally devastating, visually driven record designed for both underground heavy audiences and fans of art-driven concept albums.

To get you into the mood for this complex, heavy and brooding album, we're beyond excited to premiere the awesome new song "Ocean of Teeth (Haunted By The Glimpse Of A White Light)" from the upcoming new album:

Track Listing:

1. Conflict Code_Cursed Blessed

2. Tectonic Boogie With the Grief Eater

3. The Ghost of A One Armed Comedian

4. Ocean of Teeth (Haunted By The Glimpse Of A White Light)**

5. Secondary Drowning*

6. Dead Radio Daylight

7. Disenchanted Enchanter

8. Behead The Oracle**

9. Correction Code_Pre-Emptive Strikes Against Prophecy

10. Dethroning the Delusion

11. Starve My Eyes That I May See

Available for Download & CD format at: bewareofgods.bandcamp.com from July 10th 2026.

Social Media: 

Facebook: facebook.com/bewareofgodsband

Instagram: @beware_of_gods

TikTok: @bewareofgods

YouTube: @bewareofgodsofficial 

Album Credits

The Archetype: Voices, Words, Melodies, Guitars, Bass & Synth

Feederwire: Sound Design, Sequencing & Synth

Kellii Scott: Drums

Eric Plonka: *Additional Guitars

**Additional Guitars & Backing Vocals

Produced by: The Archetype

Co Produced, Engineered, & Mixed by: Pete Grossmann 

Mastered by: Brad Boatright @AUDIOSIEGE 

Executive Producer: Christopher Dyer

Original Artwork: Unexpected Specter

Art Direction: The Archetype

Recorded at: Bricktop Recording (Chicago, IL.) 

Thanks to Good Boy PR for all of the details.

Fjords - Gehenna (Album Review)

Release Date: February 16th 2026. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD

Gehenna - Tracklisting

1.Virgilio 02:53

2.Inferno 13:51

3.Purgatorio 05:10

4.Paradiso 10:55

Members

André Figueiredo (Drums)

Rafael Borges (bass)

Review

Gehenna is the debut album from Doom/Shoegaze/Stoner Metallers Fjords who I originally featured back in April 2020 when I reviewed their debut self-titled EP. That release showcased what a dangerous style of Doom, Stoner, Fuzz and Prog  music the band created within an entirely Drum and Bass duo structure. Fjords continues with that wicked setup but applies a Shoegaze and Noise Rock element to their music with the band delivering a sublime Doomgaze energy into their music.

Things do get extremely chaotic and superbly weird with Fjords adding electronic beats, glitchy noises and certain “computer game” based sound effects which aligns the band more closely to the likes of Genghis Tron in places. The album opens with the fairly straightforward Virgilio which has a standard Punk Rock/Noise Rock which allows Fjords to set the musical groundwork and framework for the album. There is a sullen sludgy delivery which keeps within the bands “LESS IS MORE” delivery with a certain KOWLOON WALLED CITY influence being heard for the first time.

Second track Inferno is perhaps where the real fun and damage starts with Fjords starting to explore their “real” Doomgaze and Progressive themes with those different sound effects and electronic beats I mentioned previously. FJords have more time to play with here as the track runs for almost fourteen minutes and it’s an epic style of different musical genres all vying for complete creative control. There’s still a great sense of warped melody bursting throughout the seams of Doom, Noise, Industrial. Electronica, Sludge and Progressive movements. The vocals are way out of control and more settled for a Punk Rock and Noise Rock environment but they get the job done. Inferno is delightfully crazy but somehow it brilliantly works for a surreal style of musical entertainment. 

The final two tracks of Purgartario and Paradiso offer over sixteen minutes which sees Fjords once again experimenting with their sound that remains highly original and wonderfully unpredictable but still delivers wave after wave of riff-driven instrumental rock/metal. The nightmarish and vivid creative aspect is another highlight with Fjords unlocking unsettling DOOMED OUT and INDUSTRIAL grooves which have a certain “twisted” identity to them but the band always find a way of delivering intense music that will have you on the edge of your seat.

Gehenna is a complex and highly vivid album that is probably meant for a cult and niche audience within the underground scene. The album is best described having a non-linear structure with Fjords going into multiple different directions with each passing moment but that’s what makes the album truly work and fully stand out.

Fjords dare to be different and release an album that needs your full undivided attention. This won’t be for everyone but if you have the time and willpower then Gehenna can only be described as a highly original and fucked-up musical experience of the highest order. 

Words by Steve Howe

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NILIM - Uncoiling (EP Review)

Release Date: December 12th 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD

Uncoiling - Tracklisting

1.The Relic 

2.Psychic Collapse

3.The Sky Devouring Itself

4.Uncoiling

Lineup

JQ - Everything

Review

Drone/Doom/Post-Metal collective Nilim release their latest bleak offering Uncoiling which follows the same destructive and slowly played sounds heard on their debut record released earlier this year. This time round Nilim has a bleaker and heavier canvas to play with as more distorted and violent soundscapes emerge from the harsh Post-industrial backdrop of Sludge Metal surroundings. The sound is quite abstract with Nilim adapting an early NIN aesthetic with his vocals which seems it will move into a more extreme style at any unpredictable moment.

The actual music is quite fragmented with an ice-cold attitude which allows Nilim to explore other areas of Doom, Sludge and Post-Metal with a slight mechanical sound which you can fully experience within the excellent opening track The Relic. The lingering Drone and Noise effects adds a nightmarish quality to the whole record with a despairing Psychedelic attitude emerging from within which you can see Nilim exploring similar themes from the likes of NEUROSIS, GODFLESH and AUTHOR & PUNISHER. The song is quite subversive with its slow-to-mid paced music luring you into a false sense of security before beating the absolute SHIT out of you with its intense grooves that leaves no stone unturned in providing thrilling riffs from start to finish.

The second track Psychic Collapse continues with the nightmarish energy but with a dominant Industrial energy once again opening up the creative vortex to even more punishing outbursts of aggressive melody and psychedelic textures with an intense Post-Rock/Post-Metal vibe emerging from the darkness. The muscular slab of Sludge/Post-Metal atmospherics is quite grounded with JQ’s vocals holding everything together with a meaty NOISE ROCK and dare I say CAVEMAN DOOM presence. Pay close attention to the lyrics as they seal the deal with this being perhaps the heaviest and most memorable track on the whole EP. With the great use of Ambient and Psychedelic sound effects where NILIM really finds his true creative purpose in providing sounds that will haunt your dreams and nightmares for days.

Third track The Sky Devouring Itself being a pure Ambient/Post-Rock driven track with only minimal outbursts of Industrial and Post-Doom rhythms before returning to his Sludge Metal domain for the final moments with a slightly distorted environment closing the song in great style.

The final track Uncoiling allows Nilim the final choice to unleash another final outburst of nightmarish aggression but perhaps with the most riff-centric track on the whole release. There’s the extra use of Ambient. Post-Rock and Psychedelic textures keep everything within the Post-Metal and Sludge Metal domain but I absolutely adore the “less-is-more” attitude and technical ability that NILIM shows on this track alone. A great way to end this superb EP with.

Uncoiling is quite a dark and brooding experience but one that's not afraid to show moments of uplifting humility that's quite refreshing to hear for a record such as this. Awesome stuff. End Of.

Words by Steve Howe

Links 

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Feel Worse - This Will Weigh Heavily On Your Annual Performance Appraisal (Album Review)

Release Date: November 28th 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD

This Will Weigh Heavily On Your Annual Performance Appraisal - Tracklisting

1.In Public 03:47

2.Elbow Party 04:31

3.Graves Upon Graves 06:17

4.Break the Ice 03:17

5.So You Die 04:58

6.The Giant Who Wanted Company 03:30

7.Storms 03:57

Review

This Will Weigh Heavily On Your Annual Performance Appraisal is the debut album from Noise/Post-Hardcore/Sludge Metallers Feel Worse and it’s a project made up of members from bands such as Sulaco, Sully and Burn Everything. Feel Worse play a wide range of different musical themes such as Post-Rock, Black Metal, Psych Metal and Industrial Rock within their main Post-Hardcore and Sludge Metal attitude. 

The band are perhaps closer to the likes of KOWLOON WALLED CITY and WHORES with the band creating sludgy anthemic grooves with a stirring social conscience appearing within the lyrics. The vocals are very much of the Post-Hardcore and Punk Rock variety as the music even has influences such as The Melvins, At The Drive-In and Converge to give this quite a highly experimental vibe. Feel Worse even find the time to play around with Psychedelic and Sonic movements which you can feel the full force on tracks such as In Public, Elbow Party and Graves Upon Graves.

With a twisted sense of melody allowing Feel Worse to move across different musical boundaries and even when the vocals move into Pitch-Black territory, the music is constantly melodic with a dark Psychedelic energy appearing within some of the more longer tracks of the record. There are some parts where the music is quite chaotic and Jazz focused in places but it’s quite refreshing to hear with Feel Worse always thinking ahead by creating complex rhythms and musical structures that also allow you to focus upon the lyrical content even more especially on tracks Graves Upon Graves, Break The Ice and The Giant Who Wanted Company.

Feel Worse has a harsh Nineties Alt-Metal attitude appearing on the later stages of the record with plenty of menacing beat-downs and progressive beats becoming more part of the action. This is a highly captivating slice of Noise Rock with a full on Sludge Metal attitude with the album also having quite a surreal experimental sound throughout.

This Will Weigh Heavily On Your Annual Performance Appraisal is a superbly entertaining record which dares to be quite different and still leaves you wanting to hear more with it’s great collection of individual songs that have BRAINS and BRAWN to match in equal measure.

Words by Steve Howe

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Doubtsower - The Past Melts Away With A Sneer (Album Review)

Release Date: November 28st 2025. Record Label: UBAii / Unbidden Audio: Formats: CD/Digital

The Past Melts Away with a Sneer - Tracklisting

The Past Melts Away with a Sneer

 

Lineup

All tracks written, performed, recorded, produced & mixed by Matt Strangis

Review

The Past Melts Away With A Sneer is the fourth full length album from one-man Blackened Doom/Sludge Metal collective Doubsower and this is my first experience with Matt Strangis’s highly disturbing and nihilistic creative alter ego. This record is full of gloomy visions and harsh sonic landscapes that moves within the areas of Industrial Metal, Funeral Doom, Post-Metal, Post-Rock and Horror Movie Soundtracks for an album that is highly unusual and brilliantly eclectic at the same time.

Doubtsower has gained a lot of great praise from the musical underground scene and it’s not hard to see why as Matt is very passionate about making music across the wider musical spectrum. As Matt plays bass in doom merchants "Pantheist", and also produces experimental electronic music under the alias "Kyam". The whole atmosphere is creepy with Doubtsower playing heavy amounts of warped FUNERAL DOOM soundscapes that’s wrapped around a ton of disturbing ELECTRONIC beats which does take time for the “REAL” metallic movements to appear. 

Matt teases and scares the hell out of the listener with expertly placed soundbytes and sound effects that amps up the tension. Doubtsower feels inspired by the highly controversial and deeply uncomfortable horror movies of European and Asian cinema. This record isn’t watered down by any means with the slow-paced Black Metal grooves merging into heavier slices of violent ELECTRONICA and INDUSTRIAL beats with extreme vocals to match. 

Though, Matt does show a keen sense of melody within the more restrained Post-Rock and Post-Metal passages that appear from momentarily within the album. The record’s main strength is it’s gloomy and highly unapologetic production style which has a real core DIY PUNK ethic running throughout and with the amazing Greg Chandler (from legendary funeral doom band Esoteric) handling mastering duties, this is one record that not only dares to be different within the realm of Funeral Doom but actually rewrites the rule book.

This is a singular forty nine minute track with Doubtsower showcasing one of the best extreme records to emerge from within the UK and WELSH underground metal scene in quite some time. The level of dedication and technical ability that Matt plays on this album is simply astonishing to listen to and to make me emotionally invested for an album such as this is no small feat.

Expect The Unexpected with The Past Melts Away With A Sneer as this is as close as to perfection you’ll ever hear in the world of Experimental Doom Metal.

Words by Steve Howe

The Past Melts Away With A Sneer will be available to buy digitally and CD via Unbidden Audio

Links

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Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World - Bad Winter / Man Of Stated Age (Double Single Review)

Release Date: October 25th 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD

Bad Winter / Man Of Stated Age- Tracklisting

Bad Winter

Man Of Stated Age

Members

Blev Lavoux: vocals, violin, percussion

Ivar van der Heijden: bass

Joel Bordeaux: guitar, background vocals, electronics

Tina Harris: drums

Reviewt

Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World is a Psych Doom Metal band from The Netherlands who focus upon playing a cautionary style of Doom Metal with areas of Prog Rock, Sludge, Grunge and Shoegaze dynamics showing within their music. The band have recently released two tracks Bad Winter and Man Of Stated Age which were released originally as Live Tracks back in August 2025. This time the band offer proper recorded versions and they have a different feel, sound and overall vibe to their live counterparts.

The songs are very stripped back that taps right into the Nineties Shoegaze and Alt Metal scenes perfectly with a haunting Post-Metal quality appearing on the heaviest moments especially on Bad WInter. The song moves cautiously slowly before finding a firm HEAVY FOOTING with a distorted atmospheric sludge vibe appearing. The vocals from Blev Lavoux dominate the Post-Rock/Droned Out landscape with the instrumental work finally creating an ice cold world that holds everything together.

Man Of Stated Age showcases Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World's great use of mechanical loops, sound effects and industrial beats which is another major strength for the band to wholly rely upon. If you dig the likes of WINDHAND, NEUROSIS, SWANS and KOWLOON WALLED CITY then there’s much to discover and admire from these two tracks alone. 

Both tracks are emotionally engaging and quite bleak with the band providing bleak soundscapes within their overall musical journey. Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World have a wealth of different releases up on their BandCamp Page and with some of them leaning into Experimental Rock/Metal territory, the band could be really onto something special for future releases. 

Excellent and Highly Recommended. 

Words by Steve Howe

Links

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SANDRIDER premiere video single of NINE INCH NAILS rendition 'March of the Pigs' from forthcoming tribute album "The Downward Spiral Redux"

Following a record breaking Redux Kickstarter campaign, the first single taken from the forthcoming MER Redux Series release "The Downward Spiral Redux" is ready to be unleashed: Seattle, WA grunge metal trio SANDRIDER present their hard-hitting take on the NINE INCH NAILS classic 'March of the Pigs'. This highly anticipated new Redux Series installment is scheduled for release on November 28, 2025. 

Available for pre-order here: https://spkr.store/collections/redux-classic-album-re-imagined

Parallel to "The Downward Spiral Redux", Magnetic Eye Records will release their customar companion album entitled "Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux" that contains 13 cover renditions of deep cuts and all-time classics from across NINE INCH NAILS' catalogue recorded by some of the heavy underground's most exciting artists.

Watch the video for 'March of the Pigs' below:

SANDRIDER comment: "Our choice for a tribute track, 'March of the Pigs', is a song that hits so hard", vocalist and guitarist Jon Weisnewski writes. "It did when it first came out, it still does now, and it'll be just as brutal in another 30 years. Trying to harness that beast and make sure that it still had the timeless impact, we all expect it to have, was a humbling challenge."

Credits

Video footage by Sandrider. Edited by Ritual Video (IG: @ritual_video)

SANRIDER hail from Seattle, Washington and, true to their place of origin, embraced grunge as the creative base to which they gave their own spin by adding a hard and sharp metal edge. The trio was formed in 2008 and currently consists of the two former AKIMBO members - vocalist and guitarist Jon Weisnewski and Nat Damm on drums - with bass player and vocalist Jesse Roberts from THE RUBY DOE as the third comrade-in-heaviness. SANRIDER have released four acclaimed albums with "Enveletration" (2023) being their latest.

Tracklist "The Downward Spiral Redux"

1. BLACK TUSK 'Mr. Self Destruct'
2. THIEF 'Piggy'
3. GRIN 'Heresy'
4. SANDRIDER 'March of the Pigs'
5. DAEVAR 'Closer'
6. HIGH TONE SON OF A BITCH 'Ruiner'
7. DREADNOUGHT 'The Becoming'
8. JOHN FRYER WITH STELLA SOLEIL 'I Do Not Want This'
9. JOHN CXNNOR FEAT. HEXA 'Big Man with a Gun'
10. IAH 'A Warm Place'
11. ABRAMS 'Eraser'
12. AUTHOR & PUNISHER 'Reptile'
13. PALEHORSE PALERIDER 'The Downward Spiral'
14. BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME 'Hurt'

At this moment, the world's reliance on machines, algorithms, and artificial intelligence has never been greater. This makes now the perfect time to reflect on the emergence of a musical force whose blend of mechanized instrumentation and raw emotion was singular and revolutionary.

NINE INCH NAILS were formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988. They arrived around the same time as grunge when Generation X was developing an awareness of itself, but while there was cross-appeal, the sound they created was clearly and intentionally something very different.

The skepticism of that era came through in the music, with artists from RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE to NIRVANA pushing back against what were acceptable words and actions in our society, and everything from the ideals of what major musicians should do with their fame to what people and corporations stood for were fair targets.

NINE INCH NAILS were at least twice as cynical as everyone else and reflected the singular, driven musical expression of mastermind Trent Reznor. The music he made as NIN has always ranged from infectious, furious, delicate, and sexual to transgressive, uplifting, cautionary, and hopeless. While Reznor did not always make broad, blunt statements about politics, materialism or repression (though he definitely did at times), there was a consistently restless quality to his music. His frustration at the veneer of normalcy and acceptability that characterized modern popular music was palpable, and he seemed to search endlessly for seams to peel back and rip loose to expose what was underneath.

Of NINE INCH NAILS' seminal breakthrough album, Spin magazine respectfully had this to say in 2024: "As The Downward Spiral turns 30 this year, it still stands as an act of artistic transgression against the limits of popular music. Pushing the boundaries of creative censorship, it is still considered Nine Inch Nails' most daring and uncompromising album."

Join us in paying homage to one of rock's most ambitious innovators and angriest Gen X voices railing against the status quo, as we present our latest Redux Series installment "The Downward Spiral Redux", along with the traditional companion album "Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux". The two double album collections together comprise 27 re-imagined renditions by some of today's coolest and heaviest artists taking on NINE INCH NAILS classics and deep cuts.

The Magnetic Eye Redux Series features hand-picked classic albums from across the history of rock and metal re-imagined in their entirety from start to finish. Artists we love from within and outside the heavy rock landscape choose tracks to make their own, bringing these milestone records into the new millennium with crushing heaviness and searing energy. To date, we've produced Redux editions of PINK FLOYD's "The Wall", HELMET's "Meantime", BLACK SABBATH's "Vol. 4", JIMI HENDRIX's "Electric Ladyland", ALICE IN CHAINS' "Dirt", AC/DC's "Back in Black", SOUNDGARDEN's "Superunknown", JETHRO TULL's "Aqualung", and RAMONES' self-titled debut, which have included artists like RED FANG, THE SWORD, MATT PIKE, PALLBEARER, THE MELVINS, ALL THEM WITCHES, KHEMMIS, ASG, SUPERSUCKERS, ZAKK WYLDE, MARK LANEGAN, VOIVOD, and many more amazing artists.

Join us for our tenth foray into Redux territory as we pay proper respect to the US industrial rock legends NINE INCH NAILS!

Thanks to All Noir PR and Magnetic Eye Records for all of the details.

Your Mother's Disgusting Window - Your Mother's Disgusting Window (Album Review)

Release Date: August 22nd 2025. Record Label: Marfa Lights Records. Formats: DD

Your Mother’s Disgusting Window - Tracklisting

1.Untitled

2.Spree Killing

3.Grim Reality 06:21

4.Kill Me 07:24

5.Pig World

6.Obliterate

Members

Darlene

Review

Your Mother’s Disgusting Window debut self-titled album opens with a soundclip from the classic 1990’s film HEAT directed by the legendary Michael Mann which sets the tone for the whole album. As the scene in question is perhaps one of the nastiest and sinister clips from that amazing film. Your Mother’s Disgusting Window is primarily the work of Darlene Aaron who has been part of the Australian underground musical scene for the best part of two decades. 

This record is a violent record through and through with Your Mother’s Disgusting Window fusing Drone, Psych, Punk, Doom, Black Metal, Noise, Sludge, Stoner and Industrial. With a despairing level of ELECTRONICA vibes which can be quite unsettling to fully listen through at times. However, the record does have its fair share of sublime grooves, riffs and extended instrumental passages.

The band is influenced by the likes of SUNN 0))), Corrupted, Grief, EYEHATEGOD, SLEEP, BLACK SABBATH, THE MELVINS. SWANS and BORIS. If that amazing line-up of bands intrigues you then be prepared for an Avant-Garde style of nightmarish sounds, brash vocals and heavy industrialized moments.

The opening song of Untitled is the speech from the classic film of HEAT before the album truly begins with the terrifying Spree Killing. A song so nasty and vicious with Your Mother’s Disgusting Window fully selling their nightmarish creative attitude that feels like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry and SUNN 0))) vying for control of your immortal soul. The sounds are nihilistic, progressive and quite long but one that leaves a great impression of how daring the record actually can be.

Third track Grim Reality adds a subversive Sludge Metal and gloomy Post Punk identity to the record that allows Darlene to fully sell the “outsider” vibe that the record contains. I don’t know why but listening to this track reminded me of classic films by David Cronenberg and the TETSUO films. The tone is once again grimy and beautifully fucked up at the same time, The slow paced mechanics allows the desolate melodies and twisted guitars to build a destructive level of DRONE to force people into actual submission. Perhaps one of the most violent offerings of Blackened Sludge Metal and Noise Rock I’ve heard in quite some time.

Fourth track Kill Me does at least try to aim for a more straightforward riff-centric style of melody but still with twisted amounts of primal Drone and Black Metal. The electronica based beats and industrial glitches add a surreal sense of survival where carnage and chaos reigns supreme. There’s a twisted aura of AMPLIFIER FEEDBACK and LOW & SLOW atmospherics struggling to break out at times but Your Mother’s Disgusting Window always keeps the twisted Drone Metal / Industrial mechanics firmly in control.

Fifth track Pig World follows the same creative path of Kill Me with a less abrasive and violent approach though everything is still catastrophically demonic at heart. This is one of the standout tracks on the record with Darlene laying down twisted melodies of the highest order. 

The final track of Obliterate is a lengthy twenty minute plus number that sees Your Mother’s Disgusting Window just go all out for a final epic assault on the senses. Darlene is joined by Black Metal/Blackwave legend Sin Nanna (Striborg, Sunn o)))) on this number who provides ruthless vocals to this masterclass of SONIC based terrorism that will leave you having nightmares for a very long time to come.

Your Mother’s Disgusting Window is perhaps the most violent and twisted record I’ve heard this year. It has a fearless attitude and violent creative energy you just don’t come across much these days. This isn’t a record you can listen to over and over again. This did take me a few weeks to write this review as it left me a shivering wreck which I’m not afraid to admit to. However, this is an astonishing record to devour especially if you’re a dedicated follower of the EXTREME METAL scene. 

Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!!!

Words by Steve Howe

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