Heavy Metal GENRE ARCHIVES

COMPLEXITY FEST announces SIKTH, CARNIFEX, JOHN FRUM and more

Dutch heavy music festival Complexity Fest have announced SikTh, Carnifex, Three Trapped Tigers, God Mother, Ulsect (Including members of Textures and Dodecahedron) and finally John Frum (supergroup made up of members from The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Faceless, John Zor) Many more acts are still yet to be announced. The dates of the festival are Friday 23 and Saturday 24 February 2018 and more information and tickets can be found […]

SATYRICON release single

SATYRICON have released killer new single To Your Brethren In The Dark from their upcoming album Deep Calleth Upon Deep! About the new single Satyr has said “‘To your brethren in the dark’ is definitely one of the flagship songs on the record. This is about emotion, our nature, the spirits, the autumn, the sombre and rainy days, those who we lost […]

Freakangel – How the Ghost Became..

Born out of the depths of Suicidal Romance, covered in grime, dirt and heavy riffs come Freakangel. Taking influence from bands such as Combichrist, Nine Inch Nails and Fear Factory, they reach to the darker side of the industrial metal genre with heavy drums, dark vocals, darker synths and thrashing guitars but yet, still incredibly […]

Neck Of The Woods – The Passenger

Vancouver’s progressive metallers Neck Of The Woods are releasing their killer debut album The Passenger through Basick Records on 15th September! Neck Of The Woods have already released an insane single from the new album entitled Bottom Feeder which you should definitely check out below. On the new single, the band has said it is about “Recognising recurring patterns in relationships that […]

InVisions – Never Nothing

York metalcore rockers InVisions have slowly been teasing their self released debut album, Never Nothing, for a while now. Having released three singles from the record – Turn Up, a party anthem. followed by Purge, tinged with the darker side of metalcore and concluding with the latest single is Soul Seeker. The album is finally here and it’s as loud […]

Cursed Earth – Cycles of Grief Volume 1: Growth

Fresh from signing to UNFD Australian metallic hardcore band Cursed Earth released the Cycles of Grief Volume 1: Growth EP on the 4th August. This EP sees the group display a true understanding of the various styles of heavy music, whilst maintaining a thematic consistency based around the darker aspects of life. The EP has […]

Make Them Suffer – Worlds Apart

Australian six-piece Make Them Suffer released their album Worlds Apart on July 28th. The album is full of catchy hooks, anthemic choruses, and it’s almost worlds apart from their previous albums. ‘First Movement’ opens the album, and immediately sees the band move away from their deathcore roots, onto something a little more progressive. Their style is more melodic […]

Sevendust Sign With Rise Records

Heavy metal five-piece Sevendust, formed in 1996, have recently been signed to the well-known Rise Records. Bands that have also been signed includes the impressive Five Finger Death Punch, Of Mice & Men and even PVRIS. This occurred after the massive success of their latest album, Kill The Flaw, which awarded the band with their highest album […]

Acacia Strain – Gravebloom

Deathcore band ‘Acacia Strain’ have released their 8th album, Gravebloom, and the 11 track mammoth of an album is full of heavy breakdowns, growls, and drone sounds. Faster songs like ‘Calloused Mouth’ and ‘Bitter Pill’ do well to add variety to the generally almost sludgy sound with rumbling bass lines and filthy riffs under rasping […]

2000 Trees Festival 2017

Multi-award-winning 2000 Trees festival is set in the stunning Cotswold Hills. Boasting over 130 of the best bands the world has to offer this year is looking to be one of the best yet and that is saying something!

Dream Evil are a Creature Of The Night!

Swedish heavy metallers Dream Evil have released new single Creature Of The Night! The track comes from their forthcoming album Six, set for release on May 26th via Century Media Records. The band say; “When we chose from all recorded songs the ones to be released on the main album, we summoned a Heavy Metal […]

The Lotus – Mars X

The early noughties have pushed to the forefront lots of new, and interesting bands, and alongside them come The Lotus. If Muse and The Deftones met in a pub and had a cheeky couple of Sambucca’s and hit the town and ended the night with a ride on a spaceship, that’s exactly what this […]

Lancer unleash Dead Raising Towers!

The title sounds a bit scary doesn’t it? Luckily for us, its just the name of Swedish heavy metallers Lancer‘s new single! Dead Raising Towers is taken from their January 13th Nuclear Blast Records released album >>Mastery<<. Guitarist Fredrik Kelemen says of the live video; “From Hamburg, the last German show on our European tour […]

Iron Maiden UK dates and album reissues!

Iron Maiden are set to resume their Book Of Souls World Tour in Europe in April, the tour is set to hit our shores in May and you can check out the dates below; MAY 04 UK Nottingham Motorpoint Arena 06 Ireland Dublin 3Arena 08 UK Manchester Arena 10 UK Sheffield Arena 11 UK Leeds […]

Within The Ruins – Halfway Human

Within The Ruins have been making quite a name for themselves recently in the death-metal genre. With their 5th album release (and third via E1 Music record label) Halfway Human has expectations to reach. Let me give you a track by track review. Opening with a low beefy riff on Shape Shifter, with a classic […]

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