We found a cool Christmas gift for anyone who has ever dreamed of growling, screaming or shouting like their extreme metal heroes… Britta Görtz (Critical Mess,...
This nightmare of a year has forced musicians to find new ways of working, but French vocalist/instrumentalist/songwriter Stéphanie Nolf was ahead of the pandemic when she...
Swiss quartet The Erkonauts are back with their third album, I Want It To End, which continues to develop the strikingly original sound that garnered them...
James Kennedy is a Welsh musician, formerly the frontman and founder of rock band Kyshera, and now working as a solo artist… and author. Noise Damage,...
The self-titled fourth album from Houston’s Oceans of Slumber has been eagerly anticipated, following the critical acclaim heaped upon their 2018 offering, The Banished Heart. While...
In Hinduism, Kaliyuga is the fourth and present cycle of the world, often referred to as the dark age due to its predominant traits of discord,...
One of the biggest heavy metal bands of the twenty-first century, Lamb of God has been busy supporting Slayer on their massive final tour, which partly...
After an incredible 32 years and fifteen albums, legendary purveyors of doom, Paradise Lost have relinquished none of their creative energy. Sixteenth studio album Obsidian (due...
The doom-death-gothic legends have been through so many musical phases in their incredible 32-year career that you never know quite what to expect from a Paradise...
Finnish melodeath group Wolfheart is masterminded by frontman Tuomas Saukkonen, whose very own sub-genre of ‘winter metal,’ a heavy yet atmospheric blend of melodic death, black...
Pennsylvania’s twice Grammy-nominated melodic metalcore heroes, August Burns Red have long been a force for positivity and hope within heavy music. Seventeen-year veterans of a scene...
For the past four years, German extreme metal masters Heaven Shall Burn have been on a creative journey unprecedented in their long career. Of Truth and...
Endurance (Tenacity Music) is an appropriate title for the seventh album from MXD, the Swiss electro-industrial outfit who have been navigating the underground for an impressive...
Due September 27th via Tenacity Music, Voice of Ruin’s Acheron has an anthemic feel throughout. This is a big album that deserves international recognition for this...
It takes courage to self-publish a book, as it takes courage to self-release an album, and Prognosis’ Phil Weller is to be applauded; for baring his...
Europe is pretty spoiled for extreme music festivals these days, but don’t let SYLAK Open Air slip under your radar. This small, friendly and eclectic gathering...
Due June 7th via Listenable Records, Bury The Pain is a solid, enjoyable thrash album that should ensure Xentrix a warm welcome back to festival stages...
Cages (New Age Records) packs a lot of brilliant, inspiring stuff into only thirteen minutes. Redbait is a profoundly important band, deep in the trenches of...
Full of Hell return with their new full-length, Weeping Choir, via Relapse Records and it is genuinely terrifying. Weeping Choir is an absolute nightmare, and that’s...
We spoke at length with Lisa Voisard, lead vocalist of the technical death metal band Anachronism, about the group, their beginnings, and absolutely stunning album, Orogeny,...
Due March 8th via Nuclear Blast, Hexed, the eagerly-anticipated tenth studio album from Children of Bodom, rings out with the inherent playfulness and reckless energy of...
Catherine Fearns chats with Christophe Godin, frontman of French progressive jazz-rock-metallers MÖRGLBL, about a range of issues, including their new album The Story Of Scott Rötti,...
On the eve of the release of their thirteenth album, I, The Mask (due March 1st via Nuclear Blast Records and 11-7 Music), we caught up...
With their first anthology, One, new Leeds, UK-based digital black metal label Cult of Osiris have succeeded in demonstrating that new bands from the black metal...
On their second full-length, Earthbeat, due via Tenacity Music, Switzerland’s Colossus Fall successfully manage to combine progressive metal’s discordant experimentalism and sludge’s filthy riffs with the...
It’s not an easy task to create uplifting hardcore music, but CardiaC undoubtedly achieve just that. Their latest offering, Mañana No Serà Otro Día Igual, via...
