We are now over half way through 2021. Whilst we cannot say the world is in much of a better place than the dumpster fire of 2020, we certainly seem to be heading in a better direction. The return of live shows and festivals here in the UK is a […]
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 […]
Brazil and The Netherlands combine forces in the brutally destructive form of Crypta, who have released their third single Dark Night of the Soul. Their upcoming debut album Echoes of the Soul will be released this Friday on Napalm Records. Expect an overload of old school savagery, destructive riffing and […]
Following the release of their first single From the Ashes, Brazilian/Dutch death metal outfit Crypta have released their second single Starvation. Offering a savage old school lo-fi death metal bludgeoning, Crypta‘s debut album Echoes of the Soul is likely to extend an ever growing list of terrific recent throwback death […]
Is djent still used as a colloquial term, or do we now recognise this as a genuine genre? Often rather than using potentially a dirty word in djent, progressive metalcore is common the word of choice. I find that a little weird, how progressive metalcore can be a genre. The […]