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…

Scales Of Justice: Guest reviewer – Oliver Originally posted 15th August 2020 After 3 days of great music hosted by the European Metal Festival Alliance, already enjoying sets from Parasite Inc, Evil Invaders and Orange Goblin, I was very much set and ready to go, looking forward to Sunday’s head-line…

Hordes X 2021: recap. Just before the original Slow Dragon Music site went under, we announced that Hordes X 2020 would not be happening, due to the corona-virus pandemic, and the current restrictions surrounding live events. Instead, the event, along with all the bands already announced, will be rolling over…

2020; The year that keeps on giving. Most recently, it gave Slow Dragon Music a catastrophic website failure, which was a delight only suitable to this current solar cycle! The dragon is a patient creature, though, and now, slowly, re-emerges from this unexpected torpor… The site basics are still the…

Originally posted January 26th 2020: While not hammering skins in Threshold Sicks, multi-instrumentalist, Ross Tanbini, has put a whole lot of time into another passion: Grunge. His solo project, Perfumed Tar, started off many moons ago, but only now is recorded output about to see the light of day. We…

Underground In Prydain: Ramage Inc – Write with us Originally posted 02nd May 2020 We are, as they say, living in unprecedented times. Among the many groups adversely affected by the current situation, those in the music industry are certainly feeling the strain. Promoters and venues can’t put on events….