Next up in the Rock Sins End Of Year Awards for 2017 is Philip Whitehead. Following on from the two Sam’s (Sam Savigny and Sam Dignon), it’s now Philip’s turn to pick out his moments from the last twelve months. Album Of The Year: Body Count – Bloodlust This was a close call to make,…
Sinsaenum is a project that piqued a lot of interest when it first emerged, when Frédéric Leclercq (of DragonForce fame) and Vimic’s Joey Jordison teamed up with extreme metal royalty in Attila Csihar (Sunn O))), Mayhem), Stéphan Buriez (Loudblast), Heimoth (Seth) and Sean Zatorsky (Dååth, Chimaira) to release an album of blackened death metal built…
With the release of 2013’s Strangers Only, Ohio quartet My Ticket Home propelled themselves from metalcore obscurity to one of the key bands in the emerging “nu metalcore” scene. Fast forward 4 years, with a signing to Spinefarm Records along the way, and we now have unReal, the group’s third effort and first real attempt…
When a band reaches a certain point in its career, the members can often find themselves in a difficult situation: upset fans by releasing the same sort of album again and again, or upset fans by attempting to branch out and alter their sound. For Decapitated, things have very much leaned towards the latter, especially…
Logan Mader has been a busy guy lately. Aside from his acclaimed production work, he made a surprise return to performing music in 2015 with melodeath group Once Human, putting out an impressive debut at the end of that year. 2016 was then spent with some touring, before recruiting a new member (third guitarist Max…
Logan Mader has been around the block or two a time in the world of metal. Former guitarist with Machine Head on their first two albums, stints in Soulfly and Medication followed before Logan turned his hand to producing full time for a number of years. Thankfully for many of us, he picked up his…
Kitsune Art have been making waves in their native Spain through 2016 with their debut album Signals of Synchronism, and despite still searching for a record label, they can consider the feedback for the album a resounding success. This week’s global underground spotlight focuses on the band as we spoke to them about what Kitsune Art…
BAND-MAID is a J-Rock band that’s been threatening to make waves in the west for a while now. They first gained attention as little more than a gimmick, as the contrast between their hard hitting J-Rock/metal songs and their cutesy French maid imagery became a talking point in the metal community. However, they have the…
Spain is something of an oddity in that, despite having popular festivals and being a regular stop point for European tours, the local scene has still yet to throw out any truly outstanding bands. The latest act to attempt to remedy that is the alternative metal group Kitsune Art, who released their first album Signals…
90s nostalgia has been steadily growing for a few years now, so it came as no surprise when two of the biggest nu metal acts of the era, Korn and Limp Bizkit, announced a joint-headline tour through the UK in late 2016. With hardcore stalwarts Madball joining in on the action, the tour descended on…
