Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Album Review: Tavern Tales – Ragnhild

August 10, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

One look at the cover of Ragnhild’s “Tavern Tales” should be enough to give you a fair idea of what you are going to get

Premiere: Barbarous Temperament – Trench Warfare

August 9, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

If the very name Trench Warfare doesn’t give you an insight into what this band sounds like, then you are either a fool, or a clown of

Album Review: Outpregnate – Eggs of Gomorrh

August 4, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and possibly commit Metal blasphemy. How would I do that you ask? Well, I’m gonna cross genres,

Album Review: Vestigial – Cryptae

August 2, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

I had the pleasure once of reviewing the Netherland’s based duo Cryptae’s other piece of sonic fuckery, the self titled “Cryptae”, and wow, what

Album Review: Bury the Pain – Xentrix

July 27, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

ProgCaveOgier (the PCO) and The Great Mackintosh (yes, that clown) where so impressed with the latest release from UK based Thrashmeisters Xentrix, that they both

Album Review: Lost Eternally – Chalice Of Suffering

July 3, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

I have toiled long and hard over this album. Let us get this out of the way first. There are many reasons for this, none

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