US thrash metal newcomers The Band Repent have released their latest single Unbreachable, which will be part of their upcoming debut EP Written in Blood. Hailing from Casper, Wyoming, guitarist/vocalist Jeremy Amack, drummer Shawn Hill and bassist Joe Rodriguez set forth to melt the skin from your face with some […]
Your view on the word retro is likely to stem from life experience. It might bring back cringe memories of your parents hideous floral furniture. Or the time when you wore flared trousers or sported a glorious mullet with no sense of self-consciousness. Under the right circumstances however, it can […]
Brazil and The Netherlands combine forces in the brutally destructive form of Crypta, who have released their third single Dark Night of the Soul. Their upcoming debut album Echoes of the Soul will be released this Friday on Napalm Records. Expect an overload of old school savagery, destructive riffing and […]
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 […]
Following the release of their first single From the Ashes, Brazilian/Dutch death metal outfit Crypta have released their second single Starvation. Offering a savage old school lo-fi death metal bludgeoning, Crypta‘s debut album Echoes of the Soul is likely to extend an ever growing list of terrific recent throwback death […]
Evile were there to begin the modern thrash metal revival before it even began. Their debut album Enter The Grave was released in 2007, a little before the thrash metal revival really kicked off with Metallica‘s Death Magnetic in 2008 and Slayer‘s World Painted Blood in 2009. However there is […]
Is djent still used as a colloquial term, or do we now recognise this as a genuine genre? Often rather than using potentially a dirty word in djent, progressive metalcore is common the word of choice. I find that a little weird, how progressive metalcore can be a genre. 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 […]
The badass gals in Brazilian death/thrash metal band Nervosa today released a behind the scenes look at their single Under Ruins from acclaimed album Perpetual Chaos. Their recently released album Perpetual Chaos is a killer album, full of fish pumping thrash metal with a heavy death metal influence. If you […]
