Rowan Bruce, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

ALBUM REVIEW: Decay – Godflesh

Nothing lasts forever, everything decays, everything returns to dust. As industrial icons GODFLESH prepare to close the book on their

Off the back of their breakout album Loss, mysterious Portuguese black metal act GAEREA land in Bristol’s legendary The Fleece

On their brutally heavy and wide-ranging fourth album Norwich duo KULK raise the bar not only for themselves but for

Ecuadorian extreme metal act MINIPONY return with a more aggressive and confusing sound on their new album Detach. Clashing together

In a year packed with fantastic post-rock and post-metal releases, Parisian quartet LOST IN KYIV push their sound further than

Fans of riff heavy post-rock rejoice, DUTCH ELM are here to fill the place in your heart that bands like

Lego, liquorice and hardcore, Danish quintet SPLIT put their scene on the map with their second EP A Thousand Reflections.

Feeding live recorded doom metal through the filter of industrial pop and dark ambient, the latest work from THE MEDEA

Building up considerable hype via their legendary live shows over their relatively short career, Glaswegian duo COWBOY HUNTERS prove that

Bringing their spin-kicking, yee-hawing brand of metallic hardcore across the Atlantic to Bristol’s iconic Thekla, GIDEON not only rock the