Reviews written by: Dave Ingram Jr.
Reviews
Evile - Skull
Another year, another Evile album, another review from the Dingram. Whenever these boys release a new album I always end up acting like a six year old child at Christmas time and I've never been disappointed by the final product they've put out. While Enter the Grave comes across as slightly hilarious nowadays due to how utterly 'thrash' it is, it...
28/05/2013
Hellbastard - Sons Of Bitches
Another long overdue review here, mostly because I've been enjoying this EP so much. Crusty fucks Hellbastard are a band that I was introduced to very early on in my heavy metal adolescence, having been given their second album Natural Order on cassette sometime in 2001 which I was absolutely hooked on for a good few months. After seeing them live...
14/05/2013
Gama Bomb - The Terror Tapes
All four people who read my review for Gama Bomb's Terrorscope single last week will recall that I was rather impressed with the emphasis on the songwriting aspect of the track in question and highly recommended it, and made my excitement and anticipation for the new album The Terror Tapes quite apparent. Gama Bomb's previous releases had always se...
19/04/2013
Sodom - Epitome Of Torture
As a big fan of Sodom, "Epitome Of Torture" is an album I've looked forward to immensely. Their previous album, 2010's "In War And Pieces", is quite possibly the greatest thing that the band has ever done and it's predecessors - 2001's "M16" and the 2006 self-titled album - were obviously working themselves up to the sound present on that album, wh...
13/04/2013
Gama Bomb - Terrorscope [Single]
Irish thrashers Gama Bomb don't really need much of an introduction, so I'll skip today's history lesson - if you're reading this, chances are you're well aware of their distinctive brand of extreely fast, silly thrash metal. Basically, what we have here is a completely <a title="download single" href="http://www.terrorizer.com/2013/03/26/gama-bomb...
10/04/2013
Seregon - The Movement
I'll admit it: I'm a monstrous whore for Seregon. They're easily one of the absolute best unsigned thrash bands, if not THE best band in general, doing the rounds in the United Kingdom right now and they've done a mighty fine job lasting so many years in a scene that fluctuates almost constantly. Their stomping, almost anthemic brand of groovy deat...
14/03/2013
Unbounded Terror - Nest Of Affliction
<em>"Mallorca's Unbounded Terror was one of the very first Spanish death metal bands. It was formed from the ashes of band Toxic Waste, and after that they were called Putrefeact Monstruosity until April 1991, when they adopted the name Unbounded Terror. The band was promoted by legendary label Drowned Productions whose owner, Dave Rotten of Avulse...
11/03/2013
Evile, Wolf & Septic Fatality - Sheffield UK (October 24th 2012)
After taking a lengthy (though involuntary) hiatus from the online world and the music scene for the majority of 2012, many regular readers will be completely unsurprised to see that my first contribution upon my return to Brutalism is an Evile review. But as I always say, good music deserves as much praise as possible, right? The show was held...
15/12/2012
Prong - Carved Into Stone
Some bands make a tremendous impact on music without being fully recognised for their actions - Prong are probably the best example when it comes to such instances, as the band are still shockingly unheard of by a great many music fans despite not only being around since 1986, but pretty much defining ninties groove/industrial metal. Starting their...
26/04/2012
Nile - Worship The Animal
Nobody in death metal is unfamiliar with Nile by this point - they're one of the biggest names in death metal, with albums such as "In Their Darkened Shrines" and "Annihilation Of The Wicked" being mandatory classics within the genre these days. And though I didn't think much of their previous album and I slept through their incredibly boring live...
06/02/2012
Desolator - Demo 2011
Having been involved with the UK thrash metal scene for a long time now, I'm no stranger to unsigned talent. Hell, I'll happily acknowledge that the UK has the best upcoming bands in the whole world - a statement I make not out of patriotism, but from pure observation. This said, for every great band you'll find 2,000 shitty ones, and 90% of the ti...
03/12/2011
Disphere - Shinra Tensei
I'm completely new to Italy's Disphere, I'm not surprised in the slightest, but I feel like I've missed out. This is one of the biggest surprises I've had for a long time. To put it bluntly, Disphere's second album "Shinra Tensei" is like a slightly more straightforward version of Gorguts' "Obscura". That's about as close as I can really get, as...
03/12/2011