Adding another batch of top artists to an already great line-up, 2000Trees is shaping up to be an unmissable event. With only four months to go until the festivities get underway, You Me At Six, Nova Twins, Twin Atlantic (playing an acoustic session), Boston Manor and Kenny Hoopla have all been added among others. 2000trees…
Gloucester’s Underground Festival returned on March 26th with 30 bands across four stages and three indoor venues. With the weather on their side and free admission to the festival, the stage(s) was set for a brief taster to wet your appetite for what is to come in the summer once festival season gets underway. Cult…
2018’s Prequelle saw Ghost transport its loyal followers to the middle ages, using this setting of plagues and poverty as a framing device for its narrative. Four years on from an album that forced us to survive through a tumultuous time and we have arrived at the other end. The industrial revolution is upon us…
Lorna Shore were one of the unfortunate bands who were playing in the UK at the time when everything started to shut down in March of 2020. Forced to cut their expedition as part of the Rising Death Merch – Faces Of Death tour alongside Decapitated short after just two dates, they returned home before…
Coming through the ups and downs of the last few years, the 6th album by Glasgow’s Bleed From Within has been announced. Titled Shrine, the record will be released on June 3rd and the announcement also brings with it a new single and video of the track Levitate. Here is what the band had to…
With its ‘7 Days Of Trees’, 2000Trees have announced seven more bands to the line-up with STILL more to follow. Announced via seven different platforms such as Kerrang!, Rolling Stone and NME, the likes of Creeper and Puppy will join the festival. The seven bands announced are: London grunge metal band Puppy – Via Kerrang!…
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett will release his first-ever solo project named Portals on April 23rd. The four-track EP will be the first solo project released by an active member of the band and will be released via Blackened Recordings. The EP features the likes of drummers Jon Theodore and Abraham Laboriel, Greg Fidelman on bass,…
Polaris are set to return to UK and European shores this autumn with a 21-show run. The Aussies will take their The Death Of Me headline tour on the road through the UK in Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham, Southampton and Leeds. They will be joined by their countrymen in Alpha Wolf, Gravemind and Stepson….
Cult Of Luna have been celebrated in post-metal circles for a long time now but their recent run of releases stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any band’s recent form. 2016’s Mariner and 2019’s A Dawn To Fear alongside 2021’s The Raging River EP didn’t just solidify their place as one of the best bands in the scene,…
Though it comes wrapped in a tapestry blanket of grand Greek mythology, Venom Prison’s Erebos quickly unveils its darkness whilst saving some of its greatest treasures for repeated listens. A large portion of its runtime is made up of the sheer force we’ve come to expect from one of the most exciting bands on the…
The mighty Meshuggah are back with a brand new single titled The Abysmal Eye. Taken as the lead single from their upcoming album Immutable, this serves as the first taste of new music from the band since 2016’s Grammy-nominated The Violent Sleep Of Reason. Despite being on the cusp of releasing their ninth studio album,…
Palm Reader are back hitting UK venues this March with support from Blackpool’s Blanket. After releasing their acclaimed album Sleepless in 2020, they’ll embark on their first UK headline tour in four years, starting in Brighton and finishing in Glasgow. Palm Reader stated: “We are so happy to announce we’ll be heading out on our…
