“Release in the time of COVID” ought be the name of a documentary account of either: A) The deadly sins in which we engage in
Author: Your Grouchy Friend
A deep love for metal and a deep desire to give back to a scene that has given me so much over the years are the passion behind my words. I have a need to express in the written form and it is an outlet that contributes to the balance in my life.
Live: Depravity, The Harvest Trail & The Furor Triple Album Launch
A distinct combination of an absence of live shows around the world and Your Grouchy Friend’s immense pride in the quantity and quality of metal
Vale: Lars-Göran Petrov
The Metal world has lost an absolute legend and the front man of one of the most iconic acts in the history of Death Metal:
ALBUM REVIEW: THE MELVINS – Working with God
Music history has always interested Your Grouchy Friend immensely. Tracking back through the musical family tree to discover the influences, interests and friendships that produced
ALBUM REVIEW: What a Time to be Alive – Werewolves
Ferocity: savage, unfettered ferocity. Like the lycanthropically afflicted beasts for whom they’re named, Melbourne, Australia’s Werewolves dealt in this commodity on their 2020 debut “The
YOUR GROUCHY FRIEND’S TOP 10 OF 2020
In what was obviously a tumultuous and unprecedented year for many including Your Grouchy Friend, so many of our taken-for-granted lifestyles, institutions and general modes
ALBUM REVIEW: GRAND MALEVOLENCE – DEPRAVITY
Several times this year Your Grouchy Friend has found himself actively reflecting on writing music reviews whilst engaged in the writing process itself. Writing about
IT’S A METAL VINYL CHRISTMAS: THE METAL WANDERLUST ESSENTIAL GIFT LIST
Been nice? Been naughty? Who are you kidding of course you’ve been naughty! No matter which list you or your Metal obsessed loved one is
THE METAL WANDERLIST NANO NOVEMBER 2020: MUST LISTEN TRACKS IN 2020 SO FAR.
Only one month to go in the utter shit-show of a year that has been 2020. But despite the massive proliferation of everyday excrement the
INTERVIEW: Greg Puciato – Killer Be Killed
Your Grouchy Friend had the pleasure of chatting with a very busy and pumped up Greg Puciato on the back of the release of his solo
ALBUM REVIEW: MISANTHROPIC BREED – LIK
Your Grouchy friend absolutely worships early Dismember and Entombed so it shouldn’t come as a huge shock that he quite enjoys a bit of early
Interview: Scott Ian – Mr. Bungle
“The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny” has been out for just few days and the noise around the album has been immense, with a
Exclusive Premiere: Barbaric Eternity – Depravity
Perth, Australia is the home to so much incredible Metal it has sometimes defied belief. Surely then, it must be a dark and festering void
The Metal Wanderlust 