The Japanese scene has exploded in the last decade with acts such as Babymetal, Lovebites and Band-Maid making waves around the world. The latest act hoping to make their international breakthrough are BRIDEAR, who signed to Setsuzoku Records last year and this summer released their latest effort, Aegis of Athena. Ahead of their September tour…
Neue Deutsche Härte legends Rammstein have dropped the first single from their upcoming 8th studio album. With touring put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic, the sextet once again united with producer Olsen Involtini at La Fabrique Studios in Saint Rémy de Provence to record Zeit (translation: “Time”), the follow up to their much anticipated…
It’s been a testing few years for Korn. From the death and loss that spurred 2019’s The Nothing, to the isolation and uncertainty triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, it would be perfectly understandable if Jonathan Davis and Co. took things to even darker places on their next outing, particularly with the hiatus of bassist Fieldy…
Since their inception in 2005, the mysterious French black metallers Celeste have become something of a cult band in extreme metal circles, blending black metal with various different genres, chiefly post-hardcore and sludge metal. Their 2013 effort Animale(s) in particular cemented their status as one of the scene’s most interesting propositions, and last year their…
The 2022 BRIT Awards, the UK’s premier music awards ceremony, kicked off on Tuesday night with an explosive performance from Bring Me the Horizon, collaborating with none other than pop megastar Ed Sheeran. After a brief opening sequence from host Mo Gilligan, the unusual pairing kicked off proceedings with a raucous metal rendition of Sheeran’s…
The long awaited black metal side project of Trivium frontman Matt Heafy has finally released its first song, ahead of a full album release later this year. IBARAKI has been in the works for a number of years, initially going by the name Mrityu as a collaboration between Heafy and Emperor mastermind Ihsahn. It has…
Limp Bizkit. The much maligned face of turn-of-the-century nu metal which was often pointed to by critics as the worst of the worst, and justification for the intense hatred held towards nu metal as a whole for the next decade. Of course, in the intervening years, those who grew up with the genre have begun…
After weeks of teasing, from billboards in London, to exclusive Instragram filters, to cryptic live streams, Korn have finally released the first single from their 14th studio album Requiem. Dropping online at midnight Eastern Time (5am UK time), “Start the Healing” is a stormer of a track that follows where 2019’s The Nothing left off,…
It has been an interesting past year for Babymetal. While continuing to tour relentlessly after the success of their sophomore effort Metal Resistance, the group was hit by the departure of Yui Mizuno in late 2018 due to undisclosed health reasons, and the core group reverted to a duo of Suzuka Nakamoto and Moa Kikuchi….
Afreet is the brand new post-metal project of Yousef Shah and Sulleiman Omar, previously half of the band District Unknown (who we covered a couple of years ago. Read here). They made waves several years ago with their status as Afghanistan’s first metal band, often forced to play in secret in order to avoid falling…
