Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Album Review: Within The Depths Of Oblivion – Ontborg

June 25, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

HM-2 you say? Well fuck me with the rough end of a pineapple if this one doesn’t just leap out of the speakers and say

Album Review: Vermin – Inert

June 25, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Inert. The English dictionary defines this state as thus, ‘lacking the ability or strength to move’. Yeah, fucking right on, because after you get this

Album Review: Damned In Endless Night – WarCrab

June 25, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

I had some long winded shit to begin this review, It is no surprise that I am a fan of the mighty Crab, but long

Album Review: Humanicide – Death Angel

June 9, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Let me take you back to a time when life was simpler and easier. A time when high top sneakers, black t-shirts, studded bracelets and

Album Review: Sacrament – LVCIFYRE

May 24, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Holy shit, ProgCaveOgier and I didn’t clean up from the last joint we had and The Great Mackintosh just showed up. Guess the cleaning can

Album Review: MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM – Lord Dying.

May 17, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

The Heavy end of rock music spectrum is the definite home of magic. For past forty years it has attracted the souls who are

Vargheist Records Update!

April 27, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Great news from our good friend Justin Volus over at the mighty Vargheist Records! Read on folks! Maha Pralaya– A Black Metal band from Athens,

Album Review: The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods – Esoctrilihum

April 26, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

It’s only on rare occasions that we get an act that really challenges the way we look at music in general and continue to blow

Album Review: Wolves and the Hideous White – The Crawling

April 13, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

So here’s the thing. The Great Mackintosh is a sucker for Paradise Lost, always has been, always will be, heck, even his name is a

Album Review: Shadow Gripped – Cancer

April 5, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

The only reasonable way for me to start this review is just to say “Bugger me”. Having been a huge fan of these lads and

Album Review: Split – Illimitable Dolor/Promethean Misery

February 22, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

A quick review should be in order, one would think, with this little package from two mighty Australian acts, Illimitable Dolor, and Promethean Misery, but