In sometime back in 2024, there was some rumours and tinter web goss about a new Ghost album being released in ‘early 2025’. Those of you who have conditions, will know what that is like. Like a meeting at 3pm in the afternoon, and its 9 in the morning, you sit, agitated, all day, until that meeting has been and gone.
There's something stirring in the Valleys right now with Those Damn Crows rapidly heading to arena-filling status and Haxan releasing the finest track of their career so far.
One of the most brutal bands from the North East since Venom, KIlonova aren't interested in taking prisoners, their aim instead to eviscerate everything in their path.
There's no question that Birmingham is THE home of Heavy Metal, the Midlands city boasting more than its fair share of legends and newcomers alike.
Your new addiction is here. Hailing from Northampton, Mercy Falls have burst onto the scene with this monstrous slab of irresistible sonic assault that blends eviscerating fretwork, city block destroying drums and a soaring chorus that will stay in your brain for days and never leave.
Hungry and out to prove themselves, Cambridge's finest metal outfit For The Forsaken release this new monster from their mighty arsenal of killer tunes.
One of the most unutterably cool bands on the scene, London quintet Dead Writers have been casting their spell over audiences whenever they play.
In a world full of mediocrity and blandness where over-polished production and big dance routines are seemingly king, it's great to shake things up with something authentic and raw like Crymwav.
Arguably Volbeat are now Denmarks greatest export. They have steadily built their profile around the world over the last two decades or so and released some absolutely top quality rock/metal albums such as ‘Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies’ which combines classic fist pumping metal and the best of punk rock.
Ghost are an interesting band that often spilts opinion in the metal and rock community. On the one hand the band have a tremendous gothic metal style image and the capability to rock with the best of them. Their lyrics delve into many of the popular stereotypes of metal music, but are very intelligent, clever and witty along with it.
Ian Kaine MacGregor will be known to many as the lead vocal and guitarist with the mighty 'American Jetset', a band who in 2024 released the album '1987', a titanic slice of classic 1980s Sunset Strip rock that was without doubt my album of the year.
Since their formation in 1995, Aborted have respectfully achieved their position within the death metal industry. They have positively manipulated all borders of extreme death metal resulting in zero limitations to their evolving sound, it's also evidently clear these guys are far from becoming ordinary any time soon.
King Krakens debut album was one of the highlights of 2023 and since then the band having been working hard both gigging and building their social media presence.
It’s more than fair to say independent record company Earache Records punch well above their weight nowadays and deservedly so.
The boys are back in town. Whilst their former singer is shuffling around old haunts, recapturing hazy memories, Black Eyed Sons have freed themselves from the past and are looking at a bright future.
Working from the ground up, Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork have released a brand new single, “Spirit Of No Return” via Nuclear Blast Records.