Ellis Heasley, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

ALBUM REVIEW: Portraits – Perennial Isolation

Spain definitely isn’t one of the first countries that springs to mind when it comes to ice-cold atmospheric black metal.

It takes all of 20 seconds for IMMERSE to get heads banging on The Weight That Holds Me Here. The

Unpredictable. It’s a word almost invariably used in a positive context when it comes to music – and rightly so.

“Let’s just write an album and play whatever the hell we want” is how PUPIL SLICER vocalist/guitarist Kate Davies describes

It doesn’t really get much more intense than WOWOD. Whichever way you cut it, their latest album Yarost’ I Proshchenie

It’s always interesting when a band seeks to reinvent themselves as DEPTHS OF HATRED do with Inheritance. Armed with a

It’s hard not to think about the 90s when listening to 24/7 DIVA HEAVEN. Stress, the Berlin-based trio’s debut full-length,

It doesn’t take long at all to get to grips with DEATH BLOOMS’ Fuck Everything. The third EP from the

Is it really any surprise that a band with a name like PUPIL SLICER are so utterly vicious? On Mirrors,

San Francisco’s Bay Area has been the epicentre of some of the best and most blistering heavy metal for decades.