Eva Plays Dead – Sounds of the Written Word EP
People often complain about the lack of female musicians in the rock and metal music scene, and it is easy to see why. Despite this, many of the new and upcoming rock bands are female fronted, such as...
View ArticleOrchid – Sign Of The Witch
It doesn’t seem that long ago that “Grease” was the word. In fact it was the word right around the time that Black Sabbath were threatening to implode and spilled Ozzy out of the band and out of the...
View ArticleFell To Low – Low In The Dust
Post-hardcore is a genre which has thrived in recent years, which is due to a vast number of reasons. One of these is the so-called ‘Tumblr’ bands, such as La Dispute and Defeater, whose music seems to...
View ArticleCathedral – In Memoriam 2015
When doom metal legends Cathedral finally called it a day in 2013, there was much sadness but also a great outpouring of gratitude for the music recorded in their twenty-three year career as titans of...
View ArticleSewer Rats – Moneymaker EP
One of the thing that is great about rock music is that it doesn't have to be always be so perfect or pretty. Take British psychedelic rockers Sewer Rats for instance. They write and play like they...
View ArticleVictor Love – The Network EP
For those of you unfamiliar with the delights of Victor Love: no, this isn’t some 1950s B-Movie hero. Love, in fact, heads up Italian Electro-Industrialists Dope Stars Inc, and 'The Network' EP...
View ArticleEcstatic Vision – Sonic Praise
There used to be an old gag doing the rounds of bars and clubs. It went a bit like this: “I see that Rollin’ Stones guitarist Keith Richards has joined the campaign against hard drug use. Don’t do...
View ArticleXandria – Fire And Ashes
With the EP 'Fire & Ashes' (Napalm), German Symphonic Metal band Xandria releases their second work to feature vocalist Dianne van Giersbergen. Continue reading → The post Xandria – Fire And Ashes...
View ArticleA Trust Unclean – Reality Relinquished EP
It’s been a while since UK mob A Trust Unclean battered our eardrums, four years between EP’s to be precise. Seeking to jumpstart their career, they’re self-releasing an EP, 'Reality Relinquished',...
View ArticleJøtnarr – Burn and Bury
The host of independent labels involved in the various-format issue of 'Burn and Bury' (React With Protest / Vetala Productions / SuperFi Records / Prismatik), the latest EP from Colchester nasty...
View ArticleHiraeth – The World Ends With You
You can find out a lot about a band simply from their name. Take Hiraeth for example: Hiraeth is a Welsh word which has no direct English translation. The University of Wales has described it as...
View ArticleNeshiima – Beware of Gifts
Despite only having a handful of bands playing that style, Nu-Djent/Djent-hop may well be one of the most divisive genres in metal nowadays. Glaswegian five-piece Neshiima not only fall into that...
View ArticleVenom Prison – The Primal Chaos
Sat backstage at Temples Festival in May 2015 were five quiet, unassuming, polite young people, looking for all the world like competition winners nervously waiting in chairs to be shuffled through to...
View ArticleDenner/Shermann – Satan’s Tomb
Between 1981 and 1984, Mercyful Fate recorded some of the finest Heavy Metal that has ever been written. This is not open to discussion. The news that classic-era guitarists Michael Denner and Hank...
View ArticleVarathron – The Confessional of the Black Penitents
A pivotal part of the Hellenic black metal scene along with Rotting Christ, Varathron have remained consistent since their inception way back in 1988. Following the success of last year’s Untrodden...
View ArticleSaint[The]Sinner – Masquerades EP
Since Kiefer Sutherland’s piercing, well, I was going to say eyes but let’s go with teeth, made rock chicks around the world swoon and crick their necks to be bitten, vampires and rock/metal have been...
View ArticleThis Year’s Ghost – Yesterday Becomes Tomorrow Today
With hints of Smashing Pumpkins and Alter Bridge, 'Yesterday Becomes Tomorrow Today' (self-released) commences in a cascading shimmer before the opening song is supplemented by a flowing guitar line...
View ArticleFalse Flags – Hexmachine
'HexMachine' by False Flags is a self-released debut mini-album, although when you give it a listen it certainly doesn’t feel particularly mini, this packs some considerable force. False Flags rise out...
View ArticleAttan – From Nothing
Okay, honest question – what does “core” mean? Really? Whether we admit it or not, the fact is that most music that’s called “Hardcore” these days is more an aesthetic than a style of music – an...
View ArticleAutopsy – Skull Grinder
One of the simplest yet strongest arguments against modern bands playing “Old School” Death Metal is that they’re not Autopsy. With one of the most seminal bands of that style putting out at least one...
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