The wave of djent continues! UK metal band Vexed have announced their upcoming debut album Culling Culture. It will be released via Napalm Records on May 21, 2021. Vexed released two standalone singles Elite – features CJ McMahon from Thy Art Is Murder, and Dominate, and now release new single […]
Israel’s Scardust, the rising force in prog and symphonic metal, will play a free entry live stream show Breaking The Ice on Thursday, March 18th – 19:00 GMT | 11:00 PST | 14:00 EST | 20:00 CET. The show can be viewed on the day here: https://play2fund.com/event/scardust. You may have heard me mention before, but I really don’t care for much […]
Set to release their third full length Crimson Wreath this coming May 2021 via Rockshots Records, Greece’s prog power Illusory are sharing the record’s first single Besetting Sins. “This is the opening track of the album and also our first single off the “Crimson Wreath” album. A very heavy song with fast guitar gallops, an Eastern […]
Immortal Guardian, the 4 piece progressive power metal outfit release their new album Psychosomatic. They had originally gathered in Sin City to record this album. However the global pandemic scuppered those plans and each member reverted back to their respective homelands. Guitarist/keyboardist Gabriel Guardian remaining in Las Vegas and vocalist […]
The purveyors of massive guitar tone. The mighty Gojira have very few rivals when it comes to chest pounding bass that can comfortably knock you off the road if you are crazy enough to listen to them through your car stereo. Ranking all Gojira albums is a tough task, but […]
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 […]
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 […]
How did I miss the eponymous debut album by Killer Be Killed back in 2014? The heavy metal supergroup consists of Max Cavalera (Soulfly, Sepultura, Cavalera Conspiracy), Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Troy Sanders (Mastodon) and Ben Koller (Converge). A blend of artists of that quality can only lead […]
Progressive infusion makes Rites of the Nameless a perfect entry into the dark and twisted world of black metal Out of Boston, Massachusetts this is Infera Bruo‘s fourth studio album. At 6 songs and a 39 minute run time, Rites of the Nameless follows the rules of prog whilst being […]
