Jack Press, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

EP REVIEW: Pressure Points – ANIIMALIA

If you time-travelled back to 2020 and told yourself you’re about to start a band at the height of a

What do you do when you’ve defeated that difficult second album syndrome by dropping a career-defining, chart-invading record during a

Some bands spend their careers sculpting a masterpiece, an album that shapes a genre for years to come. Others will

VOIVOD aren’t an easy band to write about. Their early years saw them peddle out speed metal like they were

Whilst some bands sour over time, others age like fine wines. It doesn’t matter if it’s your first sip or

When bands split up, they cause splinters in their scene. When ALEXISONFIRE downed tools in 2011, with several members swanning

Imagine releasing an album, crashing the UK album chart’s Top 100, and playing the first festival in the UK in

If art is a reflection of its creator’s reality, MANTAR’s Erinç Sakarya and Hanno Klänhardt are bleeding out in the

There must be something in the water in Germany. AVANTASIA’s ambitiousness makes MEAT LOAF’s rock opera theatrics look like its

When IRON MAIDEN’s Bruce Dickinson orders us to “scream for me, Donington”, it’s enough to send shivers down your spine.