Swedish power metal’rs Majestica have graced us with a break from the normal festive jingles with a concept Christmas album based on the haunting of Ebenezer Scrooge from the famous Muppets movie – A Christmas Carol. What, it was an extremely well known novel long before a Muppets movie? Bah […]
Self certified post-genre specialist Poppy releases her Yuletide EP A Very Poppy Christmas. Comprosing of three original songs I Like Presents, I Won’t Be Home For Christmas and Kiss In The Snow, along with a cover of Silver Bells. Taking a deliberately sombre approach to the typical jaunty festive jingles. […]
As fans within the metal community, we run this strange line of punishing bands for straying from their established style, whilst simultaneously vilifying them for releasing the same thing over and over again. However, some bands have a tried and tested no frills approach that works, and they stick rigidly […]
Rammstein need very little introduction. The industrial metal pioneers from Berlin have risen to upper echelon of metal music through a mix of writing tremendous music and stage shows that are pretty much unmatched. Here we’re going to look at ranking all Rammstein albums. They have also courted much controversy, […]
How did I miss the eponymous debut album by Killer Be Killed back in 2014? The heavy metal supergroup consists of Max Cavalera (Soulfly, Sepultura, Cavalera Conspiracy), Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Troy Sanders (Mastodon) and Ben Koller (Converge). A blend of artists of that quality can only lead […]
Dark Tranquillity are one of the three original Swedish Death Metal bands to hail from Gothenburg, along with In Flames and At The Gates. Moment is their first new album since 2016’s excellent Atoma. They have been around for over 30 years, but have never reached the heights of their fellow […]
Are we living in a golden age of genre bending heavy music? There has been plenty of genre fusion through the history of heavy music. But there seems to be now, more than ever, artists who blend a huge variation into a single release, or across multiple albums. An example […]
Not all music lasts forever. Psychedelia, Electro-Pop, Bitpop, Disco, Nu-metal, Pop Punk. All were huge mainstream success, but didn’t survive for long, mostly not beyond their decade. Thrash metal emerged in the 1980s to huge success, but by the 1990s had all but disappeared. Normally this would mean the end […]
Florida’s Trivium have been around long enough now to be mainstays in the heavy metal world and are onto their ninth studio album in 2020. Comprising of vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy, lead guitarist Corey Beaulieu, bassist Paulo Gregoletto and stickman Alex Bent, their lineup has been largely stable over their career. […]
To mark in the season of all that is spooky, looking at a band I have never understood – Ghost So here we are, ghost, ghouls and all that is terrible. And that’s just the evening news. Whilst this year is going to look a little different, if you are […]
