Band info
Band: Iron Spire
Demo: ‘Iron Spire‘
Released: March 14th, 2025
Genre: Black metal, punk
Location: US
Review 
Iron Spire‘s debut self-titled EP of what they call “armored metal” offers delicious metal punk. It’s not the raw atavistic kind you’d expect from the Xerox cover but more a mix of Bathory, classic heavy metal, and crusty Axegrinder rhythms, more in line with the sounds of Marthe than, say, Goblin Soap, albeit grimier (complimentary).
Just what the plague doctor ordered, a 12-minute shot of chunky mid-tempo steel core riffing with a couple of faster bursts, just the right stuff to make you bang your head in that slow, rhythmic way, you know which, the weighty one with the stinky face. This shit, it is good, very very good, let’s hope this is just an appetizer.