Incinery – Hollow Earth Theory (album) Release date: 30th October 2020||Genre: Thrash||Label: Self release It’s been a little quiet on the Incinery front for a while. We haven’t had a whiff of a new release since 2014’s Dead, Bound And Buried. Now we see them return with a second full-length….

The Bates – Unfucked Live (album) Release date: 04th December 2020||Genre: Punk||Label: Glitterhouse Records Those of you up for a bit of international punk rock education, heads up! The Bates are about to re-release their full live album, Unfucked Live. Limited to 500, red, vinyl copies, this 1992 concert is…

Underground In Prydain: Underground In Prydain Archives Victory! We’ve managed to dredge the vaults and find pretty much all of the old Underground In Prydain articles! For those of you who don’t know, UIP originally started as simple blog. It covered some of the ‘hot topics’ in the music industry,…

Lik – Misanthropic Breed (album) Release date: 25th September 2020||Genre: Death metal||Label: Metal Blade Records It seems like a crows age since the last album from Stockholm death metallers, Lik. However, they had an EP out only last year, an album the year before that, and even a split in…

Dragon Fire: Heilung, Skálmöld, and more – 20||09||20 With their second live album emerging over the horizon, Icelandic legends, Skálmöld, have released the third video for its promotion. Árás is one of the first tracks the band ever wrote. It harks right back to their debut record. The full album,…

Warlung – Optical Delusions (album) Release date: 09th October 2020||Genre: Classic rock/metal|| Label: Heavy Psych Sounds The final entry in our triple hit of “old but new” reviews this week, is Warlung. Possibly the least heavy of our trilogy, these Texans lean hard on proto-metal and classic rock. As such,…

Victorius – Rise From The Flames (album) Release date: 16th October 2020||Genre: NWOBHM/Thrash||Label: Self released Welcome to the second of this week’s “old but new” reviews at Slow Dragon Music. The band for today, Dundee’s Victorius, have been treading into SDM territories for some time, now. Therefore, there were no…

Under The Oak – Ripped Up By The Roots (album) Release date: 25th September 2020||Genre: Thrash||Label: Wormholedeath This week, we are having somewhat of a focus on “old but new” releases; fresh recorded output which works with classic sounds. The first of these is Ripped Up By The Roots, from…

Dragon Fire: Necrophobic, Mörk Gryning, Six Feet Under, plus more At the end of August, Necrophobic released an official video for the rather captivating track, The Infernal Depths Of Eternity. It follows the equally emotive Mirror Black as the second proper glimpse of their new album, Dawn Of The Damned,…

Venomous Concept – Politics Versus The Erection (album) Release Date: 28th August 2020||Genre: Grindcore||Label: Season Of Mist Politics Versus The Erection is the fourth full-length from ‘grindcore’ amalgamation, Venomous Concept. Still featuring members of both Napalm Death and Brutal Truth (yes, Shane Embury, obviously!), it’s an outfit with some strong…