One of the hottest bands that should be firmly on your radar is Ukraine’s IGNEA, set to release their new album Dreams of Lands Unseen via Napalm Records on April 28, 2023. Coupled with this is the release od barnstorming new track Nomad’s Luck, which is equal parts Middle Eastern […]
UK death metal brutalisers Ingested embark on their quest to collapse some bodies across North America with vicious breakdowns and delicious slam on their forthcoming headline tour. Kicking off in Brooklyn, NY on May 4, and continuing through to June 4 in Cambridge, MA. Be there to experience the Slam […]
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 […]
If there is an album that wraps up everything about modern heavy metal in a neat package, it would be Dysphoria. Technical rhythms and brutal breakdowns. Singalong choruses designed for stadiums. Aggressive deathcore screaming and bellowing. Downtuned complex chugging. The band in question here is Termina, formed of vocalist Andy Cizek […]
When I mentioned last week that any release featuring elite vocalist Howard Jones quickly leaves everyone else scrabbling just to make themselves viable for metal track of the week, I should have mentioned that any release by Gojira also falls squarely into this category. The French metal titans can do […]
Another week stuck at home, but at least here in the UK we have signs of hope that the end is near. That sounded a little bleaker than I had intended, the end of lockdown I meant. That first festival after almost 2 years is going to be carnage! On […]
Pick up your metal mixing bowl. Combine 3 parts deathcore, 2 parts djent and 1 part 8 bit video game music. Bake it in hell fire for 47 minutes and 2 seconds and you have Black Heart, the sixth studio album from Massachusetts’ Within The Ruins. I often find at […]
