If there is an album that wraps up everything about modern heavy metal in a neat package, it would be Dysphoria. Technical rhythms and brutal breakdowns. Singalong choruses designed for stadiums. Aggressive deathcore screaming and bellowing. Downtuned complex chugging. The band in question here is Termina, formed of vocalist Andy Cizek […]
When the king of party rocking has taken a sharp turn to the dark side, does that sum up the modern world in one succinct action? Whilst the world is simultaneously recovering from and being further battered by Covid, political differences and agenda’s coming out of every orifice, heavy metal […]
Canadian crossover rockers Sumo Cyco announced that their latest release Initiation is titled as an invite to fans to enter their world. An interesting world it is. Mixing up the world of reality with a comic book inspired world called Cyco City, it takes a little while to wrap your […]
Italy’s Reality Grey have released a brutal new music video for Preachers of Hatred, taken from their upcoming third full length release Beneath This Crown. Recommended for those to require a healthy dose of heavy metalcore, with some standout drumming and a pounding outro. The premise of the track is […]
Spirits and oceans collide on this week’s edition of Metal Track of the Week. Along with a certain crustacean labelled form of metalcore making it’s long awaited resurgence. There have been some standout heavy metal albums released this week. But we’re not here for that, we’re here for the mighty […]
Some bands release extreme music, and are therefore destined to remain in the underground. Some bands deliberately release music which will be eaten up by the masses quicker than a Black Friday TV sale. Then there is Gojira. A band which has slowly progressed from quirky death metal beginnings, through […]
Crabcore is back baby! Seafood sauce at the ready. After shifting away from the style they thrust upon the unsuspecting masses on their first return track All My Life, Attack Attack! have gone back to their roots on latest release Brachyura Bombshell. Did you miss the explosion that happened in […]
Evile were there to begin the modern thrash metal revival before it even began. Their debut album Enter The Grave was released in 2007, a little before the thrash metal revival really kicked off with Metallica‘s Death Magnetic in 2008 and Slayer‘s World Painted Blood in 2009. However there is […]
Back in the year 2000, an album that was relatively mildly received at first, went on to define an entire generation. It might have been Korn‘s debut album that gave birth to nu-metal, but it was Linkin Park‘s debut release Hybrid Theory that caused nu-metal to dominate the musical sphere […]
At the pioneering forefront of the 2021 nu-metal revival, breakout US stars Tetrarch have released the latest single from their upcoming album Unstable. Addicted is the fourth and final release before their sophomore album is released this Friday on Napalm Records. After Tetrarch channelled their inner Slipknot on previous release […]
