Powerful, pumping metal with a twist from the UK based 5 piece. Let's be honest 'Lords Of Ruin' is a great name for a metal band, or for that matter a Viking raiding party. Both have the same effect - lots of noise and devastation!
Canadian - American metalcore knockouts Spiritbox surfaced with their colossal breakthrough first album Eternal Blue In 2020, which followed a plethora of stunning singles that built hype within the realms of melodic metalcore lovers, offering a stunning adaptation of the genre.
Relatively new act this, forming in 2021 and from Gothenburg in Sweden, a scene that is home to Melodic Death Metal and has been ground zero for years, so no pressure then!! Let's see what these guys have to offer!
These guys have been about a long time, since 2000, a load of Demos EPs and two full lengths to their name so far, so let's get stuck into this newly released EP and see what the guys are up to!
The powerful singer from Revival Black and most recently Skin has branched out to a solo career and the first incarnation is EP Beginnings and it is epic.
11 years in as a band, the Israeli quartet are hitting us with a new 5 track ep, full of death/thrash brutality, let's get stuck in and see what we are dealing with!
Shout it loud, rock's not dead and with incendiary new release 'Beyond The Flames', Nottingham outfit Phoenix Lake have declared that they're here and ready to take on the world.
Viatorem is the Latin word for traveller/messenger and is also an anti fascist metal band from London and Brighton. They have been building a very strong following in the underground scene since the release of their 2019 E.P "No Saviours No Kings"
Bristol’s thundering alt-rocking trio Krooked Tongue have just delivered their second EP entitled ‘Deathproof’. The successor to last year’s debut EP ‘No Vacancy Hotel’ this release represents a wholesale upscaling in terms of a maturity of capture and despatch.
From ‘Prelude’ to ‘Prologue’ searing Norfolk six-stringer Oli Brown and his deservedly much lauded Dead Collective project have just released their sophomore EP.
We are already nearly half way through 2023! Was it just me or did that winter feel endless? Spring is in full action! Plants are popping through the ground and sprouting their colourful heads, the sunshine is peering through the clouds and it's absolutely wonderful.
A three way collaboration of some real muscular metal is due to be released on the 7th April from Fit For An Autopsy, Thy Art Is Murder and Malevolence.
Talks of California’s long time renowned answer to Metalcore, Atreyu’s newest offering has been kept as a relatively quiet surprise to many until the reveal of The Hope of a Spark came about on 15th March.
New band for me, I haven't heard these guys before so excited to see what they sound like
Quality trashy sleazy rock across three songs and one song of sheer essential musical brilliance. American Jetset hail from the USA. New to my ears this EP drips with the kind of sleazy trashy rock and roll that I love. It also contains a song which could be my choice for song of the year so read on.
From the flames so the phoenix gracefully rises, casting a new light and burning hope anew. When Western Sand announced that their set at last year’s Nozfest, in Southampton, was to be their very last there was a noticeable chill running in the air.