Phil Cooper, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

ALBUM REVIEW: Sorrows – Cwfen

Few bands can create an album so deeply emotive that it transcends the confines of its recording and is utterly

Twenty years ago, heavy metal and the wider alternative scene was in rude health. Album releases for 2005 included releases

Cold, despairing and utterly crushing. That is a quick way to understand this powerful debut from German post-metal collective ORACLE

Swedish riff sorcerers LIK have charged back into the forefront of the classic death metal scene with their fourth album

With a masterful blend of traditional heavy metal and visceral black metal, San Francisco four-piece NITE arrived on the scene

A return is exactly what we have on our hands here. It has been over a decade since the last

Science fiction storytellers supreme, COHEED & CAMBRIA return with the highly anticipated third instalment of the Vaxis collection: Vaxis III:

Texan psychedelic riff slingers WARLUNG are back with fifth album, The Poison Touch. Following up on 2022’s hook laden opus

Dark, heavy and poetic. Since 2013, Stockholm based quartet AVATARIUM have been forging a formidable sound. With roots tracing back

Few artists can claim to be as prolific as DEVIN TOWNSEND. Through various guises and projects, the genre defying, multi-instrumentalist