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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s been 5 years since we last had a overly convoluted album name from Hell’s hillbilly overlord Rob Zombie. 2016’s The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser has now been followed up with 2021’s The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. Henceforth to be referred to as The […]
Death metal traditionalists Baest may be from the land of the little bricks of intense foot pain, but there is no shying away from the classic Swedish sound. Inspired by legendary bands such as Emtombed, Dismember and Morbid Angel, their new album Necro Sapiens aims to slay it’s way forth […]
Starting off with a classic b movie outtake, then straight into a storming groovy Rammstein esq pounding riff, Hellbound are wasting no time on new album Overlords. Mixing together the best parts of dirty southern groove and European industrial metal to give us an albums full of style, swagger, piss […]
As much as I have been a huge fan of metalcore since the early noughties glory days, Architects are a band that has somehow largely passed me by. Their early rhythmically complex math metal days don’t really appeal to me (or at least didn’t back then). So I was pretty […]
Epica return after 5 years in the abyss with their new album Omega, and boy have I been waiting for this one. Any album that is based around a theory that states a point in the future when the universe returns to a final point of unification (the Omega Point) […]
Italian group Temperance have today released their unplugged EP Melodies of Green and Blue. Containing 6 re-workings of tracks from acclaimed album Viridian, plus 2 new tracks. I really enjoyed Viridian, which was released back in 2020. Full of singalong energy, bombast and vigour only power-pop metal can generate. If […]
Immortal Guardian, the 4 piece progressive power metal outfit release their new album Psychosomatic. They had originally gathered in Sin City to record this album. However the global pandemic scuppered those plans and each member reverted back to their respective homelands. Guitarist/keyboardist Gabriel Guardian remaining in Las Vegas and vocalist […]
