Three years since their last album, Totem. Brazillian tribal metal chiefs, Soulfly have returned from the studio with their latest effort, Chama. Set for release on October 24th, Chama once again calls upon the ancestral strength and inspiration of Max Cavalera’s homeland. Promising another relentlessly primal, groove laden addition to the bands already exhaustive catalogue….
Having risen to the top of the heavy metal food chain with 2022’s Malicious Intent. Steel City apex predators Malevolence have returned from the studio with their fourth full length dose of whiplash, Where Only The Truth Is Spoken. A no frills barrage of high octane riffs and bowel churning breakdowns that will no doubt…
South Yorkshires foremost purveyors of heavy riffs and bowel altering breakdowns Malevolence announced their latest studio album yesterday. With the bands fourth full length outing, Where Only The Truth Is Spoken, now scheduled for release on June 20th. Alongside the announcement of their long awaited follow up to 2022’s Malicious Intent. They also released a…
Melodic Death Metal or Melodeath as it’s become known, like all subgenres was once full of innovation and a sense of novelty. As with every other genre or scene, the bands who made their mark went moved on, leaving the other behind trying to figure out how to put some new tread on very old…
Time can be a fickle mistress depending on how you look at it. Moments of infinity pass by with each second. Many alternate paths of our lives die with them. What about the time which has already elapsed? We can’t claw it back or go back to the moment before a split decision. So we’re…
Throwing it back to both bands humble beginnings, HOLDING ABSENCE and ALPHA WOLF’s four-track split EP is a unique proposition. The Lost & The Longing presents two bands with very different but striking styles and that makes for a weird listening experience but cohesiveness isn’t the goal in mind here, it’s collaboration. With that, the…
Ask anyone with a pre-existing relationship with MALEVOLENCE and their music and they will tell you they’re one of the most underrated bands to come out in the 2010s. Whilst they’ve always been beloved in their circles, keeping up their momentum has been their biggest hurdle but the tides are starting to turn. After reaching…
A decade is a long time for a project to come together. Though when you and your creative counterpart are in bands such as TRIVIUM and EMPEROR, the wait can be forgiven. Nevertheless, we can finally indulge our curiosity in IBARAKI’s Rashomon. Fuelled by Matt Kiichi Heafy’s multifaceted journey of self-discovery, Rashomon is steeped in…
The boys are back in town! After a smattering of reunion shows and occasional teasing with the idea of a full-blown The Hellacopters comeback, here we are with a shiny new album from Sweden’s stonking retro-rockers. Eyes Of Oblivion is the first The Hellacopters album since they signed off with Heads Off all the way…
Coming through the ups and downs of the last few years, the 6th album by Glasgow’s Bleed From Within has been announced. Titled Shrine, the record will be released on June 3rd and the announcement also brings with it a new single and video of the track Levitate. Here is what the band had to…