Little Cottage Brewery's "PICK THEM UP" is a 6.7% IPA that was brewed with loads of fluffy oats, while using a heavy handed dose of both Citra and Riwaka in whirlpool and dry hop. "PICK THEM UP" is about the Metal community. Metal is about family.…
Cosmic Eye Brewing's "STAGE DIVING GRANDMA" is a 3.8% Sour Berliner Weiss. "STAGE DIVING GRANDMA" is dedicated to Dave Witte's mother who last year during a Municipal Waste show jumped into the pit. "STAGE DIVING GRANDMA" was brewed as a part of M…
Brasserie Haarddrëch's "CROWD KILLER" is a 8.5% Triple Dry Hopped Double IPA that was hopped with Simcoe, Mosaic & Centennial Hops. "CROWD KILLER" is a movement that consists of stupidly smashing skulls, just like this beer!! "CROWD KILLER" was br…
My first taste of Harm’s Way came at Heavy MTL 2019. They had the shitty task of going first on Saturday at 1:30 PM under scalding hot July weather. I had no idea what to expect then and walked on their set because I had nothing else to do. Thei…
I am usually not a compromise kind of guy. If I’m in the mood for death metal, I’m going to play Cattle Decapitation, 200 Stab Wounds or something like that. If I want to listen to doom metal, I’ll go balls out for Candlemass or maybe Bell Witc…
It has been quite some time since Montreal’s Cryptopsy has offered up a new full-length album to the masses. Since 2012’s self-titled album, Cryptopsy has released only two EP’s: The Book of Suffering – Tome I and II in 2015 and 2018, respectively. …
New Level Brewing's "IVAR THE BONELESS" is a 4.5% Lemon Lager. "IVAR THE BONELESS" was brewed as a part of Metal Injection presents Vox&Hops Pit Culture which is powered by Yakima Chief Hops. "IVAR THE BONELESS" is now available at New Level Brewi…
Ghost Town Brewing's "HAYMAKER" is a 7.1% West Coast IPA that was smashed with a Citra, Mosaic 702, HBC586, Riwaka Hops. "HAYMAKER" was brewed as a part of Metal Injection presents Vox&Hops Pit Culture which is powered by Yakima Chief Hops. "HAYMA…
Jackknife Brewing's "CROWD KILLER" is a 6.66% IPA that was smashed with a bunch of Cryo 630 Hops. "CROWD KILLER"... like it or hate it... sometimes you just have to destroy everything in the pit. "CROWD KILLER" was brewed as a part of Metal Inject…
Folly Brewing's "SLOW BANG" is a 8.5% Brewtally Heavy Black IPA. It was aggressively dry-hopped with Chinook, Cascade and Centennial Hops. "SLOW BANG" is when that low and heavy riff hits and you have no choice but to slowly bang your head to the…
Sideward Brewing's "STAGE DIVER" the IPA with Honey & Orange peel. "STAGE DIVER" is something that happens when you just have to get into the pit as fast as possible and the only access to it is via the stage. "STAGE DIVER" was brewed as a part of…
Vector Brewing's "CROSSED ARMS" is a 4.5% Summer Saison that was brewed with TexMalt pils and German spelt, then dry hopped with both Simcoe and Loral Hops. "CROSSED ARMS" is the classic gesture of defensiveness. When you need a break from the pit…
Lo! are a band that don’t easily lend themselves to being categorised, and if I refer to other bands in this review it’s only as points of reference, because Lo! very much have a style all of their own. There’s always a risk in combining so many sty…
Hércules Cervecera's "WHIPLASH" is a 6.7% Cold IPA that was hopped with Cryo-Huell Melon, Simcoe, Ekuanot and Mosaic Hops. WHIPLASH is a neck injury due to forceful, rapid back-and-forth movement of the neck, like the cracking of a whip which can s…
Speciation Artisan Ales's "HEADWALK" is a 6.5% ABV Foeder Aged Saison with El Dorado And Citra Hops. HEADWALK personifies the act of running off of the stage, and continuing your jog across the faces of the crowd. "HEADWALK" was brewed as a part o…
Late in 2021, I stumbled across an EP from a solo artist under the name Nekrotisk. I was totally floored by the sheer ferocity of the music that I immediately went and snagged a copy on Bandcamp and added the tunes to the Brewtal Awakenings playlist…
Radical Way Brewing's "STAGE INVASION" is a 4.9% ABV Session Hazy IPA. With the metal festival season in full swing, this one is designed to get you through the most brutal of pits!! Azacca, Mosaic, Amarillo and Cashmere hops give this belter a full…
You may not have heard of the one-person Belgian death-doom project Gateway before - and to be honest neither had I until a couple of months ago when a pre-order notification from Transcending Obscurity records arrived in my Bandcamp messages folder…
“Fuuuuck, this guy is really fucking good. This bodes well for tonight, ” I said to my review crew colleague Phil, a song and a half into the four bands line-up that would lead to Cattle Decapitation and Dark Funeral at Club Soda, last month.It inde…
Atoms Brewing's "WE CAME AS ITALIANS" is a 4.5% Pale Ale. Time to join the mosh pit... Italian style! We are proud to be the only Italian brewery to join the crowd, spreading metal culture throughout Italy. Get some pizza and spaghetti and circle…
Tamás Kátai, the mastermind behind avant-garde metal act Thy Catafalque, has done it again. Alfӧld is his eleventh full-length under the Thy Catafalque banner and the follow up to 2021’s Vadak. Alfӧld to me is a bit more dial backed then some of the…
Although they’re legends, Godflesh isn’t a band for metal purists. Unapologetically industrial and chaotic, the Birmingham duo of Justin K. Broadrick and Ben Green have been delivering skull-crushing, but fearlessly experimental music for over thirt…
Dry & Bitter Brewing Company's "SPIN KICKS" is a 6.2% IPA that was brewed with Mosaic, Citra and Simcoe Hops. It is a killer brew with resinous tropical aromas and refreshing body. Emulating Chun-Li in the midst of a mosh pit. You might just find…
Immortal aren’t just one of the most popular black metal bands of all time, they’re also iconic. When people who don’t care about black metal hear the words “black metal”, they think about Immortal because of Guitar Hero and the gifs and memes and w…