In the interest of introducing more death metal to your existence, and lets be frank, you cannot have enough death metal in your life, I am bringing to your attention three recent and upcoming death metal releases to crowbar in to your musical vocabulary. Nocturnal Hollow, From The Abyss and […]
When I mentioned last week that any release featuring elite vocalist Howard Jones quickly leaves everyone else scrabbling just to make themselves viable for metal track of the week, I should have mentioned that any release by Gojira also falls squarely into this category. The French metal titans can do […]
Italy may well be known for fine wine, fine art, extraordinary pasta creations and a rich and glorious history, but it can be overlooked as a supplier of quality heavy metal. The USA, UK, Germany and Sweden are obvious places to go to find a plethora of the heavy metal […]
Being from the UK, it’s always exciting when a new hotly tipped UK metal band unleashed their debut offering. As Everything Unfolds are one of those aforementioned highly anticipated bands. Sitting somewhere on that modern blurry line between post-hardcore and metalcore, with the melodic choruses intertwined with screaming downtuned chuggy […]
The blackened souls of Finland’s Ghastly are due to release their third full length release Mercurial Passages in late May. If you are clawing at the window for a (un)healthy dose of lo-fi death metal, then you are in luck, Ghastly have released the first single from their new album. […]
American progressive metalcore band ERRA have largely escaped the mainstream metalcore attention over the course of their career. Their debut album came back a decade ago, and their new self titled album is their fifth, and first under label UNFD. Bridging the gap between Pendulum style EDM and prototypical progressive/math […]
Thankfully, for the sake of this week’s edition of Metal Track of the Week, there has been no new material from Howard Jones. Last week just wasn’t fair when the aforementioned legendary vocalist is kicking ass once again. In his absence this week we have had some storming new tracks […]
Norway’s party ogres Trollfest have backed up their recent Happy Heroes single with their full EP. An abundance of happy party folk metal is present for your waiting ears. Strap on your beer hat, glow sticks at the ready, the party bus is in town. It might have mowed a […]
When the title track for Serj Tankian‘s new solo Elasticity EP came out a few weeks ago, I was mostly left feeling disappointed. The despondency came twofold, both from the excellent twin release of Protect The Land and Genocidal Humanoidz from the full System of a Down collective, and just […]
Symphonic Prog Metal Band SCARDUST Previously Announced March 18 Free Livestream Israel’s progressive/symphonic metal wizards Scardust recently revealed new membership within their lineup as their critically acclaimed sophomore concept album Strangers continues to pick up accolades and new fans. That new lineup will make its live debut this Thursday, March 18 with a special […]
