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 […]
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 […]
Black metal plus haunting woodland terrain cliché alert? Moody melodic black metal band Sojourner have released the title track from their upcoming mini-EP Perennial. Mini-EP is a needless re-branding of a 2 track release – i.e. a single with a bonus/b-side track, but I’m not going to pretend I’m offended. […]
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 […]
Variety is the spice of life so I have heard. So when a week in metal which contains metalcore titans, djenty destruction, inter-dimensional extreme wizards, and a cappella metal, ’tis a good week it be. Mighty forces have travelled through time to test the might of earth’s greatest heroes. The […]
Mortal beings, the time has finally come. After generations of anticipation, the ancient prophecy has finally been realised. The mighty supergroup Wizardthrone have released their first single, and it’s totally not what I was expecting. Frozen Winds Of Thyraxia is a technical blackened melodic death metal odyssey, honed through light […]
