2019 – Apathy & Exhaustion

Toronto Blessings – Asleep (self-released, 2019)

October 15, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Toronto Blessings – Asleep (self-released) My dude from back home in Barnsley, Rik Whitehead, hit me up a few weeks ago to tell me about

Escape Elliott – Everything Here Is Make Believe (Engineer Records, 2019)

October 6, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Well. Not really sure what I was supposed to make of this to be honest. It’s er… something? This crew are from a range of

Lagwagon – Railer (Fat Wreck Chords, 2019)

October 2, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Where to start? I fucking love Lagwagon, me. Pretty unfashionable to like Lagwagon these days, right? Which is something the band themselves made a joke

Warm Needles – Don’t Tell Me How To Live EP / No Friends, No Enemies EP (Different Kitchen Records / Crapoulet / Tour Van Records, 2019)

October 1, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

I’m counting myself lucky enough to have received a copy of this hoss right here from my dude at Different Kitchen Records. This is a

Cereal Killer – The Beginning & End of Cereal Killer (Drunken Sailor Records, 2019)

September 26, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Fuck me. This is nuts. Off the chain, rabid dog nuts, mate. Like, wowee zowee. It’s great. Where the hell does Juice find these bands?

Booji Boys – Tube Reducer (Drunken Sailor Records, 2019)

September 24, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

I’ll start out by apologising to Juice Drunken Sailor for apocalyptic level of delay in getting this review out there. I’d like to say I’d

Russian Circles – Blood Year (Sargent House, 2019)

September 21, 2019 Andrew Carr Record Review

Russian Circles have been around ever since post metal blew up in the mid-00s, sitting proudly alongside the likes of Isis, Cult of Luna and

Lingua Ignota – Caligula (Profound Lore, 2019)

September 17, 2019 Andrew Carr Record Review

Once in a while, you come across an album that completely takes you by surprise. It might be that the musicianship is breath-taking, the sound

Geist – Swarming Season (Cursed Monk Records, 2019)

September 10, 2019 Nathan Bean Record Review

It has been a while since A&E has been blessed by my scornful musings. I’d like to say I’d spent the hiatus pursuing my own

Statues on Fire – Living in Darkness (Snubbed Records, 2019)

August 27, 2019 tonyofnurgle Record Review

Living in the Darkness is the third album by Brazilian melodic punk band Statues on Fire. “This record is a MUST HAVE for fans of