BLACK SKIES BURN / UK HATEGRIND – Brian Blessed Are The Sick CD

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An album with a pun title is almost always gonna wind me up the wrong way, so I’m kinda inclined to think this is shite before listening. The fact that UK Hategrind have perhaps the lamest name I’ve ever seen doesn’t make things any better. Anyway, maybe the music’s inspired. BSB are ok, they play that frantic grind where the singer sounds like he’s always totally losing the plot. It’s not bad really but I’d heard it a million times by 1999 to be honest. UKHG sound like a bunch of beefy blokes who were dead into Pantera in the 90s and never really moved on much. They now play grind but you know the Cowboys From Hell are where it’s really at for them. They lived up to their name for sure.