Hailing from Hertfordshire, on the northern shore of Londontown England, VEXED have arrived with their debut album Culling Culture. Modern metal incarnate, taking a heavily djent influenced style of brutal deathcore, with clean melodic passages (and an absence of bree’s), VEXED have taken most of modern metal’s usual tropes and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Whenever a band has released a number of EPs and garnered millions of YouTube views, the pressure is on for the inevitable debut album. The Netherlands’ Blackbriar are one of said bands. Having released multiple singles and 3 EPs since their formation in 2012. Their debut LP The Cause of […]
Whenever a band portrays an image that isn’t just 5 brooding guys in jeans and a t-shirt, my attention is peaked. Image has been a huge part of heavy metal since it’s inception. Rob Halford and the leader clad boom, the giant hair and make up in the 80s, flashy […]
Changes have been afoot in the Cannibal Corpse household. The bizarre circumstances surroundings the exit of long time guitarist Pat O’Brien in 2020 lead to the inclusion of Hate Eternal guitarist Erik Rutan joining the elite death metal outfit. If you missed the story of aliens, guns and skulls you […]
If you follow me at all, then you know my penchant for a slice of epic power metal. Germany’s purveyor of anthems Orden Ogan are now onto their seventh studio album with recent release Final Days. This time, they have moved on from the Wild West theme of 2017’s Gunman, […]
