When Coheed and Cambria released their 2015 effort The Color Before the Sun, listeners were left wondering if the band were finished with their Amory Wars storyline, which has been written by frontman Claudio Sanchez in comic book form throughout the band’s history (and the reason for the band’s name). The album was different for…
Devildriver’s remastered re-releases of their first five albums might feel a bit pointless to some. Indeed, there’s no real “anniversary” to make them feel warranted. ‘Beast’ and ‘Pray for Villains’ the latest albums of the five were, indeed, both released under a decade ago. However Devildriver have still had one of the best, and most…
Over the last few years, there seems to have been a great number of so-called ‘US radio-rock’ bands starting to make bigger and bigger waves over on European shores, with the likes of Shinedown and their ilk now sitting comfortably towards the top of festival bills and playing ever-increasingly huge tours. Halestorm are one such…
Following up the modern classic that was ‘The Satanist’ was never going to be easy. Behemoth’s magnum opus changed the game in the world of extreme metal, raising the bar and challenging peers, contemporaries and all future artists to up their respective games and attempt to knock the Polish quartet off of their blackened pedestal….
Those Damn Crows are a band at the forefront of the UK’s burgeoning “NWOCR” movement (New Wave Of Classic Rock for the uninitiated). Having built up quite the reputation on the UK live circuit over the last year or so, they attracted the attention of Earache Records who inked them to a record deal, which…
Things have been quite busy for the guys in Chthonic. Although there has been no new album since 2013’s immense Bú-Tik, an acoustic album and feature length film have come since, all while frontman Freddy Lim has been working as a politician, having been elected to Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan in 2016. This has given the…
Skyharbor have had some substantial line-up changes over the years, with the departing of TesseracT’s Daniel Tompkins on vocals and Anup Sastry on drums in 2015. This could have signalled a dismantling of the group but were promptly replaced by Aditya Ashok on drums and Eric Emery on vocals, who had a big weight on…
9 years since forming Canadian band Monster Truck have overcome the difficult 3rd album syndrome by releasing the stereo melting ‘True Rockers’. Packed with ad-libs, huge choruses, rock & roll swagger and Dee Mother Fucking Snider, this album propels the band into the next level of live venue as it is begging to be performed…
Beartooth have always been a cut above the rest of the bands in their scene. With an energy and passion that can only be described as explosive and a frontman in Caleb Shomo who is both enigmatic and vulnerable as well as hugely relatable, it’s no wonder they have such a dedicated fanbase. Their previous…
There is an unholy buzz of anticipation surrounding the Royal Albert Hall this evening. It’s a Sunday night and the congregation have descended on the venue as tonight it plays makeshift church to an evening with Ghost. One of the most eagerly anticipated gigs in recent memory is finally here and it promises to be…
Palm Reader have spent most of the last six years being one of the UK’s most exciting bands but never getting the recognition for it. Their first two albums were brilliant and their live shows were always fantastic but it just never seemed to connect with people. Then this year their latest album Braille finally grabbed peoples attention,…
Word of mouth surrounding The Fever 333 (10) has been spreading like wildfire. With just an EP out and a single UK show, the band managed to sell out the Islington Academy in 3 days. With this sort of buzz it is easy to write it all off as nothing more than hype if the band couldn’t…
