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 h…
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 par…
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 th…
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 com…
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 whic…
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 m…