Nightmare Withdrawals
Summary 80 / 100
When you think about New Zealand heavy music, what bands do you think about? For hardcore and metalcore lovers,
Antagonist A.D immediately comes to mind. For rock, there’s the mighty
Shihad. Or there’s
Alien Weaponry, whose groove-metal brings traditional Māori culture and language to the foreground. There are obviously other bands I’m forgetting or skimming past in this assessment, but one more extreme-metal NZ act to be aware of is the wordy
On third album ‘
Blindfolded And Led To The Woods (who I’ll refer to as
Blindfolded from here on out) really come into their own. The bedroom-boomy production of 2017’s ‘