OldMansMettle

23/07/2025

https://oldmansmettle.com/2025/07/23/goodbye-ozzy-osbourne-of-birmingham-a-square-peg-in-a-world-full-of-round-holes/

People who have lost someone close will tell you that no matter how much we prepare for the end, it’s still a shock. Ozzy was purportedly telling people at Black Sabbath’s Back to the B…

13/10/2024

Dead drunk and dying in a ditch....

21/04/2024

Finally....a review of SENTRY 'Sentry'. 8.5 / 10. Link in comments.

03/03/2024

...pummel riffs into oblivion as the real world turns to dust and new doorways open….....

If one had to describe the sound of SATURNALIA TEMPLE, it would be like a blend of the songs Dopethrone, Sacrificial Su***de, The Dance Of Eternal Shadows, Welcome to Planet Mo********er and possib…

21/01/2024

"SKARDUS hail from Schleswig-Holstein and play heavy black death with catchy, angular riffs and an organic but very clear production. Where, you say? You’ve heard of ‘Holsten Pils’…but? What? Schleswig-Holstein is in the far north of Germany – it’s an important place for the Anglosphere, because in the fifth to seventh centuries a huge bunch of bastards from there decided they’d prefer to live in England, to farm pigs, cause trouble, give us crucial everyday English words ( like ‘ale’ ) and their reward….to become peasants for a millenia under an even bigger bastard, William of Normandy. The smart ones, then, perhaps stayed behind, and spent the next centuries trying as hard as possible to hide from all the Germans in the south with their lederhosen and yodelling, so they could just be left alone to play northern black metal with their Baltic allies. We talk to M.B, J.S and Herr Jürgensen about the band’s first CD release Stormriek, influences, obscure Germanic dialects, and moving away from the world of the underground cassette to a record deal".
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14/01/2024

Good morning!

Would you believe it if we told you there is a group of amateur archaeologists and ex-musicians called the ‘Punk Rock Metal Detectorists Club’ operating across the southwest of England,…

27/11/2023

Very sad to hear that the big man with the big sound Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker has gone…my condolences to his family, friends and fellow artists. He was certainly an early hero of mi…

16/10/2023

Harking from deepest Cornwall, The Emerald Dawn could just be the prog band that will convert any of the remaining resistance with their timeless keyboard-driven music.

Harking from deepest Cornwall, The Emerald Dawn could just be the prog band that will convert any of the remaining resistance with their timeless keyboard-driven music. We passed their live perform…

25/12/2022

Merry yule! Here's our solstice interview with Mid of Deviated Instinct.

Were you about in the mid-to-late ’80s punk scene, supergluing patches on your tattered trousers, tramping the streets in para-boots to the soundtrack of underproduced cassette demos with xer…

21/12/2022

Probably the sloppiest article ever...

We interview a lot of technically good bands on OMM, but there’s always a space in our heart for the more chaotic ones. Not everyone is so impressed when people succeed despite their apparent…

18/05/2022

https://oldmansmettle.com/2022/05/18/jonny-maudling-of-kull-and-bal-sagoth-on-composing-exile-epic-fantasy-metal-escapism-long-standing-fans-and-new-shows/

04/05/2022

" “I used to listen to a lot of old bands…..I always loved female vocals, it just sounds better and kicks ass….”"

We thrive on inspirational tales, and who doesn’t like a good old D-beat love story? Katri of the superb crust punk outfit HAAVAT tells us about moving from small town Finland to the UK, and …