Dragon Fire – Hordes X For those who know, Hordes X needs little introduction. For anyone else, who stepped off the planet, consider this your invitation! Built on a love of extreme music, good people and the kind of underground community that makes you want to come back year after…

Skaith – Wasp Bastards Skaith, the new Scottish heavy riff unit, featuring members of Threshold Sicks and At Their Mercy, pick up the pace for their second single, Wasp Bastards. Faster, thrashier, and a bit less serious, it follow previous track, Bleed For You, both to be found on their…

  Feeding Frenzy: Kulk – Choosing To Die   Kulk – Choosing To Die Release: 28 August 2026||Genre: Doom, Sludge, Noise Rock, Psych||Label: Church Road Records Grief, love and human fragility – proving that vulnerability can be as heavy as any riff. With Choosing to Die, Norwich doom duo Kulk…

Skaith – Bleed For You   New Scottish heavy collective, Skaith, have just unleashed their slow-chugging debut track, Bleed For You. The bitter grit of the song is backed by sludge stomp and raking post-black metal. This is the first of two digital singles the band plan to releasefrom their…

Hordes X 2025 Shirts Hordes X 2025 t-shirts are now available!!! Our commemorative Hordes X 2025 shirts, created by Ezekiel Design Co, can now be ordered via email to slowdragonmusic@gmail.com. These merch items can only be purchased as a pre-order, to be collected from the merch stand at the event….

Feeding Frenzy: 2023 Scottish Winter Special Welcome to Slow Dragon Music‘s review Feeding Frenzy, where we go snapping and snarling through notable recent and upcoming releases. ***we like to arrange our meals in alphabetical order***  Catalysis – Betrayer (album) Dundee metallers Catalysis come out swinging on their new full-length. In…

Ten years is most definitely considered a long time between an artist’s first two full-length releases. You would have to wonder if a band still existed if they had no new output in that time. Yet, here we are with Threshold Sicks, a couple of line-up changes and a decade…

Sumeru – Blood Ordinance (EP) Release date: 21st January 2021||Genre: Sludge metal||Label: Brilliant Emperor As far as I can tell, Australia is slaying it in the heavy music stakes right now. It’s not just in one genre, either. Thrash, death, doom. You name it! This week, Sumeru climb to the…

Dragon Fire:  Tribulation, Sepultura, Meshuggah and  more – 19||01||21    Tribulation release new video for Funeral Pyre Taken from their Century Media/Metal Blade album Where The Gloom Becomes Sound, the band say it is “a song about sacrifice and loss and the immortality quest of heroes past.” It follows previous…

Dragon Fire: Moonspell, Niklas Sundin, Cult Of Luna and  more – 18||12||20  In the run-up to their 30th anniversary, Moonspell are in the depths of a new album. To celebrate, they recently released a video for Common Prayers. Their previous video, The Greater Good, was deemed a little too much…