There’s no disputing that Iron Maiden are, along with Black Sabbath, the most famous British heavy metal band of all time. Songs such as “Run to the Hills” and “Number of the Beast” are synonymous with the public perception of the genre, and turn of the century albums including 2010’s global No. 1, The Final…
Bring Me the Horizon have been in ascendancy with every release since their controversial inception in 2004. Initial deathcore releases “This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For” and “Count Your Blessings” earned the group a negative reputation as the example of all that is wrong with deathcore, before subsequent releases “Suicide…
Witchour are a 5 piece melodic death metal group from Buenos Aires, Argentina. This August they came out of nowhere with their debut EP, “The Haunting”. When I clicked on the link, I expected it to be rather generic melodeath which wouldn’t amount to much. Boy, was I wrong. The EP opens up with “Feel…
Her Blood In My Veins, formerly known as Aynth, is a one man band from Germany that’s spent a few years developing in the underground IDM scene. Despite only starting to release material in 2012, the project has been surprisingly prolific and new mini-album NOA is the 13th release by the project, and first under…
JP Anderson is the workhorse frontman of Rabbit Junk and formerly The Shizit, two of the underground industrial scene’s most celebrated acts. More than 10 years into his RJ career, the group is planning to release its latest genre defying EP, “Beast”, later this autumn. I spoke to JP about the new EP as well…
Logan Mader has been absent from the stage for a long time. After the former Machine Head and Soulfly axeman’s attempt to front nu metal band Stereo Black failed to pick up significant interest, he retreated to the production table for the next decade, helping bands such as Cavalera Conspiracy, Gojira, Fear Factory and SepticFlesh…
Above The Earth was formed by Russian industrial virtuoso Roman Arsafes and former Destiny Potato vocalist Aleksandra Radosavljevic after the latter’s departure from the Serbian pop-djent band in 2012. With their debut EP in the same year, they made a name for themselves in the Eastern European progressive metal scene and this year, with “Every…
Some readers may remember that last year I was given a demo to review by a young Yorkshire group called Sweet Exile, and that I had given it a somewhat lukewarm response. After taking time in the studio, the band has come back and challenged me to review their full debut EP and to see…
Oh, Crazy Town. The band that’s become the peak example of every negative excess of the turn-of-the-century wave of nu metal and rap-rock were best known for the hit single “Butterfly”, which didn’t really have any original instrumentation and relied mostly on a looped bridge they took from a Red Hot Chili Peppers song. The…
Max Cavalera has certainly kept himself busy over the past couple of years. The man has been releasing at least one album per year since 2008, and since September 2013 has released 4 albums, including “Savages”, Cavalera Conspiracy’s “Pandemonium”, Killer Be Killed’s long awaited debut and now “Archangel”, an album that takes the patented post-thrash…
