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 […]
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 […]
Finnish modern melodic death metal band Dimman are set to release their debut album Songs and Tales of Grievance on July 30th, 2021 via Inverse Records. The first single from that album Paroxysm has been released, and it’s an interesting take on some more typical metal styles. Normally when you get the […]
Starting off with a classic b movie outtake, then straight into a storming groovy Rammstein esq pounding riff, Hellbound are wasting no time on new album Overlords. Mixing together the best parts of dirty southern groove and European industrial metal to give us an albums full of style, swagger, piss […]
The sophomore slump. When a second offering is vastly inferior to a high quality initial offering. The Jaws 2 syndrome. Or RGIII. There aren’t many things in the world more disappointing then a terrible follow up effort. You know it very well in the music world. When an artist breaks […]
2020 has been a total disaster on many fronts. Stuck in lockdown, no live music. Nightmare. However what 2020 has produced is a heap of quality heavy metal albums. Narrowing it down to ten was pretty tough going. But such is the quality of albums this year they are all […]
Rammstein need very little introduction. The industrial metal pioneers from Berlin have risen to upper echelon of metal music through a mix of writing tremendous music and stage shows that are pretty much unmatched. Here we’re going to look at ranking all Rammstein albums. They have also courted much controversy, […]
Are we living in a golden age of genre bending heavy music? There has been plenty of genre fusion through the history of heavy music. But there seems to be now, more than ever, artists who blend a huge variation into a single release, or across multiple albums. An example […]
I have been listening to heavy metal music for 20 years now. But I had to start somewhere. If you already listen to metal, then you will know the albums that got you there. If not, then take note of some of the albums below, maybe they will get you […]
You will have heard that vocalist Burton C Bell quit Fear Factory (again) this past week. Appears that the confrontation within the band finally got to breaking point and the exit is permanent this time. Burton was the only member there for the whole discography, with Dino Cazares now the […]
