Whenever a band portrays an image that isn’t just 5 brooding guys in jeans and a t-shirt, my attention is peaked. Image has been a huge part of heavy metal since it’s inception. Rob Halford and the leader clad boom, the giant hair and make up in the 80s, flashy […]
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 […]
So we have seen through the first quarter of 2021. There are always ongoings in the world of heavy metal, and with Architects hitting number one on the UK album chart with latest album For Those That Wish To Exist, and Rob Zombie seeing his highest achieving album to date […]
French progressive metalcore (or do we still just call it djent?) crew Pathfinders have released the second single from their upcoming album Ares Vallis. Accompanied by a new music video, Imposters is a brutal head banging journey through chuggy melodic riffs and of course – a savage breakdown. Just two […]
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 […]
Being from the UK, it’s always exciting when a new hotly tipped UK metal band unleashed their debut offering. As Everything Unfolds are one of those aforementioned highly anticipated bands. Sitting somewhere on that modern blurry line between post-hardcore and metalcore, with the melodic choruses intertwined with screaming downtuned chuggy […]
American progressive metalcore band ERRA have largely escaped the mainstream metalcore attention over the course of their career. Their debut album came back a decade ago, and their new self titled album is their fifth, and first under label UNFD. Bridging the gap between Pendulum style EDM and prototypical progressive/math […]
Thankfully, for the sake of this week’s edition of Metal Track of the Week, there has been no new material from Howard Jones. Last week just wasn’t fair when the aforementioned legendary vocalist is kicking ass once again. In his absence this week we have had some storming new tracks […]
A band named after a spacecraft and a new album named after an astral plain is the kind of nerd-dom to get my antennae standing to attention. Ok that sounded too weird. Named after an outflow channel on Mars which appears to have been possibly carved by water, debut 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. […]
