Tim Bolitho-Jones, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

‘Frustrating’ is the first word that springs to mind when listening to The Burning Illusion. The third album by Michigan-based

ALBUM REVIEW: Great Fear Rising – Void Vator

The best way to describe VOID VATOR is imagine a band that wants to seduce your girlfriend and wears sunglasses

The tenth album from Swedish fret masters THE QUILL is a barnstormer. They’ve already enjoyed a lengthy career and while

Germany’s NECRONOMICON are a band who’ve suffered so much misfortune, it’s almost comical. They’ve been active for nearly forty years,

One thing that’s often forgotten when talking about BATUSHKA is what a great band they were when they first emerged.

By its very nature, blackened thrash shouldn’t be fun. Guttural vocals, inhuman drumming and rapid-fire guitar riffs are not inherently

Despite working on Too Mean To Die for the best part of 2020, Wolf Hoffmann seems reluctant to describe ACCEPT’s

This far into their career, it almost seems superfluous to review ACCEPT. With fifteen albums behind them and over thirty-active

Remix albums are nothing new and plenty of bands have dabbled in them before, most notably LINKIN PARK when they

It’s a brave band that decides to cover Antisocial for an EP. Germany’s STORMHUNTER do a perfectly respectable take on