2021 has produced plenty of stunning albums, and we’re not even half way through yet. UK metal has always provided albums worthy of the global stage. With the apocalypse of the past 18 months slowly coming to an end we can hopefully get to tearing it up in the mosh […]
Ah, the breakdown. Probably the single biggest bone of contention to be included within a heavy metal song. Often derided, mocked and vilified, but there is no doubting its impact on bringing heavy music to a wider audience. Part of its rejection is that the incorporation of breakdowns into heavy […]
Hailing from Hertfordshire, on the northern shore of Londontown England, VEXED have arrived with their debut album Culling Culture. Modern metal incarnate, taking a heavily djent influenced style of brutal deathcore, with clean melodic passages (and an absence of bree’s), VEXED have taken most of modern metal’s usual tropes and […]
Rejoice defenders of the ethereal realm, Extreme Wizard Metal is back. Wizardthrone have released their second single Forbidden Equations Deep Within The Epimethean Wasteland. Try saying that after a few Sambucas. Harnessing the devastating energy of folk inspired melodic death metal – think Wintersun on interdimensional steroids. Wizardthrone‘s debut album […]
Guitar playing readers, who is foaming at the naughty bits for the return of Swedish Buzzsaw in a box? After prices have been steadily rising recently with a resurgence in popularity for the legendary Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal pedal, the geniuses at the Boss Waza division have presented us with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
With the release of Cannibal Corpse‘s new LP Violence Unimagined this week, and impending album releases from Gojira, Evile, Tetrarch, Beartooth, Sumo Cyco and Vexed amongst others, heavy metal has an exciting near future in store for us all. However, lest we not forget the mighty single release as we […]
Changes have been afoot in the Cannibal Corpse household. The bizarre circumstances surroundings the exit of long time guitarist Pat O’Brien in 2020 lead to the inclusion of Hate Eternal guitarist Erik Rutan joining the elite death metal outfit. If you missed the story of aliens, guns and skulls you […]
