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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Los Angeles metal stalwarts release their new album Punching The Sky. Armoured Saint have sat on the outskirts of the heavy metal big hitters since their inception in 1986. As such I have never really been exposed them or can confess to knowing much of their back catalogue. However, […]
Progressive infusion makes Rites of the Nameless a perfect entry into the dark and twisted world of black metal Out of Boston, Massachusetts this is Infera Bruo‘s fourth studio album. At 6 songs and a 39 minute run time, Rites of the Nameless follows the rules of prog whilst being […]
Sometimes things completely pass me by. I like to think of myself as generally well researched and informed in earthly on goings, but multi-instrumentalist Nate Garrett and his band Spirit Adrift are one of the aforementioned items to avert my gaze. Releasing their second album in two years Enlightened in […]
Benediction return with first new album in 12 years Benediction are a death metal band from Birmingham who formed in 1989. Never one to stray too far from what they do best, they are one of the underground legends of the death metal scene. However, I will admit that I […]
Ah as if 2020 couldn’t get anymore bleak or hopeless, here come the masters of nihilistic brutality – Birmingham’s Anaal Nathrakh with their new album Endarkenment. Straight off the bat I will tell you this is one seriously good album. I expected the brutality, Dave Hunt‘s signature shrieking, and a […]
