Children of metal royalty have it hard. Having such established parentage always means that expectations will be piled upon you and we’ve seen many of these younger generations fail to live up to them, or see their careers curtailed altogether by the pressure. While Austin Dickinson has had some moderate success with Rise to Remain…
Hacktivist’s debut album has been a long time coming. Back in 2012 they burst onto the scene with their self-titled EP, with the unique blend of grime rapping and djent riffs creating a stir in both the metal and underground rap scenes, culminating in airplay on BBC Radio One and tours supporting such acts as…
Max Cavalera doesn’t know the meaning of “day off”. The man’s released at least one album every year since 2008 and when he’s not in the studio, he’s out on the road. Now he’s bringing the Maximum Cavalera Tour to the UK once more with additional support from King Parrot before preparing to work on…
Fear Factory have been around a good while. Often credited as the first band to blend harsh vocals and clean singing courtesy of stalwart Burton C. Bell, the band have been celebrating 20 years since the release of their landmark 1995 album Demanufacture with a UK tour. On December 13, accompanied by Dead Label and…
The Russian Sleep Experiment is a band we’re no strangers to, having reviewed their debut album An End Reborn last summer. The quintet showed a good deal of promise with this first effort, with the mix of haunting ambience and aggressive metalcore putting them in good stead for the future. This November, after a change…
Like them or loath them, Crazy Town are well and truly back. After a series of aborted reunions and Shifty Shellshock’s well publicised drug problems, they finally released their third album, the rap oriented The Brimstone Sluggers, in August this year and have been touring relentlessly since. Last week they stopped off at The Borderline…
On October 30, 2015, Romania was rocked by a shocking fire at The Colectiv Nightclub that caused unprecedented destruction in its wake. The fire, caused by a pyrotechnic error, has so far killed at least 60 people (as of November 23), including many members of the local rock and metal scene within Bucharest. In this…
Cyanotic are one of the central players in the US industrial scene. Although still firmly in the underground, their collective Glitch Mode has helped propel many industrial acts into the scene and has led to a tight relationship with acts such as Rabbit Junk. At the start of the year they released their new album,…
JP Anderson is a busy man. As mentioned in our interview with the Rabbit Junk/The Named/Wolves Under Sail frontman earlier this summer, Anderson has had to juggle a mountain of different projects with his family life and education as a Politics graduate for the past few years, and yet here he is continuing to throw…
The members of Fightstar have been busy boys during their 5 year hiatus after the release of 2009’s stellar Be Human. While Charlie Simpson had to keep fending off Busted reunion rumours he released two solo albums, played the world’s coldest gig in Siberia and wrote a song with the remote San Bushmen as part…
