EP review: The Bottom – Ghastly Sound

  The Grim Reader is here again to welcome you to another slice of face-shredding, stonercore metal. Ghastly Sound are a heavy yet melody-wise three-piece that features…..wait for it….NO GUITARS! Now, before you go running off screaming “SACRILIGE!”, believe me when I say that the noise coming from TJ Maynard’s bass, coupled with the hard-hitting…

Book review: Starr Creek – Nathan Carson

Nathan Carson’s ‘Starr Creek’ has a little bit of everything. At its core, it is a sort of coming-of-age story that reads like a mix between ‘Deliverance’, ‘The Explorers’ and ‘Dazed and Confused’, so you can probably imagine that I had a great time with the book. Firstly, let’s get the little negative out-of-the-way. It…