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 […]
As much as I have been a huge fan of metalcore since the early noughties glory days, Architects are a band that has somehow largely passed me by. Their early rhythmically complex math metal days don’t really appeal to me (or at least didn’t back then). So I was pretty […]
Rockshots Records announce re-release of DUALITY on January 29th 2021 – plus new Video SELFEAR Belgium’s Cellar Twins formed in 2014 and debuted their self-titled EP in 2017, along with single My Shell. Following a crowd funding campaign they released their debut album Duality in December 2019. They have since […]
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 […]
You have no doubt been involved in a conversation where a version of the following question has been asked; “If you could only take 10 albums with you to a desert island to listen to forevermore, what would you take?” Which is just a fancy way of saying what is […]
So you have no doubt heard this before. A band classified as Christian Rock or Christian Metal. But what does that really mean? A genre is typically there to describe a type of music. To let you know what you’re in for. We typically like certain types of music because […]
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 […]
Florida’s Trivium have been around long enough now to be mainstays in the heavy metal world and are onto their ninth studio album in 2020. Comprising of vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy, lead guitarist Corey Beaulieu, bassist Paulo Gregoletto and stickman Alex Bent, their lineup has been largely stable over their career. […]
Would these 5 metal albums have been better received if another band had released them instead? These metal albums are often criticised for being a sharp shift in musical direction. But would they have been better received by established bands within that genre? Sometimes a band releases an album and […]
