Your view on the word retro is likely to stem from life experience. It might bring back cringe memories of your parents hideous floral furniture. Or the time when you wore flared trousers or sported a glorious mullet with no sense of self-consciousness. Under the right circumstances however, it can […]
When the king of party rocking has taken a sharp turn to the dark side, does that sum up the modern world in one succinct action? Whilst the world is simultaneously recovering from and being further battered by Covid, political differences and agenda’s coming out of every orifice, heavy metal […]
Spirits and oceans collide on this week’s edition of Metal Track of the Week. Along with a certain crustacean labelled form of metalcore making it’s long awaited resurgence. There have been some standout heavy metal albums released this week. But we’re not here for that, we’re here for the mighty […]
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. […]
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 […]
Is there a better way to kick off the long Easter bank holiday weekend than with a sharp dose of savage blackened death metal? I’m waiting….. no didn’t think so. Hailing from the heavy metal homeland of the UK’s middle lands, Infested Angel have released their debut EP Nourish Me, […]
The blackened souls of Finland’s Ghastly are due to release their third full length release Mercurial Passages in late May. If you are clawing at the window for a (un)healthy dose of lo-fi death metal, then you are in luck, Ghastly have released the first single from their new album. […]
One of heavy metal’s premier vocalists, former Killswitch Engage frontman Howard Jones is back with new single The Blade. New band SION has been formed in collaboration with YouTuber, guitarist and lord of memes Jared Dines. Jared is continuing to flex his muscles with recent collaborations with Trivium‘s Matt Heafy. […]
Are you looking to add some complete chaos to your musical library? Belgum’s Verwilderd bring their brand of blackened death metal to assault your very existence. The release of their debut EP Homo Homini Lupus Est throws you straight into the pit with no messing around. The 5 track EP […]
