Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For March Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with all that is good, bad and ugly in doom, grind, thrash, bm and more

The Strange World Of… Panopticon

Kez Whelan offers ten points of entry into the extensive and thrilling back catalogue of Austin Lunn's Panopticon and charts the hidden links between the American folk tradition, social democratic politics and Norwegian black metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For February Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan tackles a tidal wave of brand new heavy metal in a particularly stacked edition of Columnus Metallicus, covering new releases from Blood Incantation, Immolation, Venom Prison, Zeal & Ardor and more

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For January Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan offers us a 360 degree, panoramic view of what is great right now in heavy metal, including some great releases from last year that didn't register in his scrying mirror first time round

Columnus Metallicus: The Best Heavy Metal Of 2021

Kez Whelan casts his eye back over the last 12 months to bring you this collection of unmissable albums

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For November Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Freewheelin', skullcrushin', topbuzzin' Kez Whelan returns with a burlap sack o'erflowing with all that is right and good in the world of heavy metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For October Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with all that is righteous in the world of extreme metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For September Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Your regular guide to the world of metal returns, with reviews of new releases Carcass, Employed To Serve, The Body and Big Brave, plus a tribute to the late, great Eric Wagner of Trouble

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For August Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is here to see off Summer with all that is unholy and rotten in the multiple worlds of heavy metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For July Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Legendary bands At The Gates, Mayhem and Darkthrone rub shoulders with young pups Know//Suffer and Hellish Form in this month's dispatch from the world of heavy effin metal brought to you by Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For June Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Who wasted their time in lockdown? Not the metal acts currently putting out live recordings and concept albums, says Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For May Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with the good, the bad and the ugly in heavy metal for May, featuring new cuts from Panopticon, Grave Miasma and Nadja

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For April Reviewed By Kez Whelan

April is the cruelest month... unless you like gore-fixated death metal, weed infused doom and heavy as all hell avant rock, says Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For March Reviewed By Kez Whelan

There is more to life than down tuned drug death, says Kez Whelan in the latest of his metal review columns

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For February Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Drop out of life with mask and sanitiser in hand... Has the year-long drought of gigs got you down? Kez Whelan is here with the next best thing: nine new metal albums of chest caving intensity

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For January Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Don't worry about the metal whoppers taking part in the recent attempted coup, says Kez Whelan, there are a lot more relevant statements being made out there...

The Strange World Of… Bolt Thrower

Bolt Thrower, an influential death metal band formed in Coventry in 1986 have bequeathed the world a formidable back catalogue. Kez Whelan is on hand to help you pick your way through it

Columnus Metallicus: The Best Heavy Metal Of 2020

Kez Whelan casts his eye back over this longest of years to bring you a chart of the 20 best heavy metal albums

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For November Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan cannot wait to see the back of 2020, he just needs to tell you about new albums by Beherit, Jesu and Undergang first

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For October Reviewed By Kez Whelan

There's a lockdown album from Possessor, an unexpected LP from Isengard, new Enslaved and Pallbearer's heaviest to date. The atrocities of 2020 show no signs of lessening, says Kez Whelan, but at least the soundtrack remains peerless

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For September Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with all that is good, bad and ugly in heavy metal, covering new releases from Napalm Death, Sumac and Uniform

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For August Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back once again like a renegade mosher, with news of all that is righteous and good in (extreme) metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For July Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with reviews of the good, the bad and the ugly from the world of metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For June Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with his stygian sack of sludge, doom, thrash, BM and post metal releases

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For May Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with more skull vaporising riffs and eyeball bursting blastbeats, not to mention reviews of Triptykon, Vader and Old Man Gloom

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For April Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with the rock down in lockdown - Columnus Metallicus with reviews of Testament, Oranssi Pazuzu, Gnaw Their Tongues and more!

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For March Reviewed By Kez Whelan

From My Dying Bride to Tombs via a new one by Body Count, Kez Whelan is back with all of your heavy metal album reviews for March

Columnus Metallicus: February’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with another column that rounds up the good, the bad and the ugly in heavy metal

Columnus Metallicus: January’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Listen and understand, says Kez Whelan. Heavy metal is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop ever until you are banging your head to some sweet riffology

Psychedelic Motherhood: Faith Coloccia Of Mamiffer Interviewed

Kez Whelan speaks to Faith Coloccia of Mamiffer about the intersection of faith, family and art

Columnus Metallicus: Kez Whelan’s Top Metal Albums Of 2019

Columnus Metallicus: November’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

In a few months' time we're about to mark the 50th freaking birthday of Heavy F'n Metal, says Kez Whelan, so let's get the party started early with news of the year's best death metal album: Hidden History Of The Human Race by Blood Incantation, not to mention stellar cuts from Angel Witch, Caïna, Esoteric and Nile