THERE is something dark and compelling about an album that builds upon the myths of the dark places where men feared to tread; yet needed to face for food and for the challenges they must endure.

These are the themes explored by Finsterforst on their fourth full length release 'Mach Dich Frei'. And this is no easy

THE world of hardcore can be impenetrable to those who stand outside looking in, a wall of aggressive music and full on rage on the vocals. But immerse yourself in it and suddenly it all makes sense.

The catharsis to those unwilling to sound their own rage, the power electrifying anger, and beneath it all a crowd of people standing

BACK in the distant past - well the 80s anyway - a movement grow up around the US, a movement called thrash metal. It took punk, metal, the UK's NWOBHM and classical music into a melting pot.

When it spread like a virus throughout Europe, inspiring a horde to adopt and adapt the form to new forms and an evolutionary process saw