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 […]
Infernalizer is the brand new creature conceived and brought to life by the creative mind of Claudio Ravinale (Disarmonia Mundi). Portraying his own take on the heavy metal genre, unleashing his debut album The Ugly Truth, now available as of February 26th via Rockshots Records. For its release day, Infernalizer is sharing its latest lyric video for […]
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) […]
Part of the thrash/groove metal establishment, Machine Head have had plenty of ups and downs throughout their lengthy career. The Oakland natives started off with a blockbuster debut album back when heavy metal was suppressed by the early 90s grunge boom. However things got very rocky for period before re-establishing […]
The wave of djent continues! UK metal band Vexed have announced their upcoming debut album Culling Culture. It will be released via Napalm Records on May 21, 2021. Vexed released two standalone singles Elite – features CJ McMahon from Thy Art Is Murder, and Dominate, and now release new single […]
Israel’s Scardust, the rising force in prog and symphonic metal, will play a free entry live stream show Breaking The Ice on Thursday, March 18th – 19:00 GMT | 11:00 PST | 14:00 EST | 20:00 CET. The show can be viewed on the day here: https://play2fund.com/event/scardust. You may have heard me mention before, but I really don’t care for much […]
I don’t really have to say much more when there is a new Gojira track out. When the French metal titans unleash a new track you already know it has been a spectacular week. Born For One Thing off their upcoming 7th studio album is an absolute belter. Full of […]
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 […]
The band that can only be described as True Norwegian Balkan Metal, Trollfest announce their new EP Happy Heroes, alongside a release of the title track. The track is accompanied by a disturbing and hilarious animated music video. If Marvel thought it would be great to introduce Happy Tree Friends […]
The undisputed king of party rocking mayhem Andrew W.K signed with metal label Napalm Records back in 2020. Now straight up, I have been a huge AWK fan since the release of debut album I Get Wet 2 decades ago. My assumption was a heavy metal influence would seep into […]
