Having spent the past decade and a half making us rethink what Hardcore Punk can twist, contort and morph into Lansdale Pennsylvania’s L.M.I. (standing for “Lazy Middle-Class Intellectuals“) created a critically acclaimed album in 2024’s “Failed To Feel It“. Back then their award winning formula found them incorporating elements of heavy Post-Hardcore, Sludge and Post-Metal with
Blazing a trail for Progressive Death Thrash from Baltimore Maryland around the globe since 2011, Nuclear Tomb have often been called out as being a little weird. Perhaps that’s because of their wide ranging sound that has been known to include shades of noisy Punk aggression as well as Traditional Heavy Metal at its extremes
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird…! It’s a plane…! no! It’s an inflatable palm tree coming to bounce off your skull! That’s what’s going to happen in the mosh pit as Mercury’s Well scream “Fire!” while throwing their instruments around with the vim and vigour of those possessed come 18th June. That’s the
Produced, mixed and mastered by Clayton Segelov (Bad Absalom, Infested Entrails, Transcendent Sea) who also performed additional guitars, a new single from To The Grave has surfaced in “Eyestalk Ablations“. Recorded at The Brain Recording Studios in Sydney Australia, it also has drums written by Bobby Crow of Signs Of The Swarm fame, proving it’s
Thanking FM guitars for their continued support, Esodic guitarist Mo LaMastro has shared a playthrough video for the bands new single “Torment of the Djinn“. Aside from taking us back to 1997 and Wishmaster, the video demonstrates LaMastro’s distinctive blend of microtonal phrasing, sliding techniques, thumping and unconventional approach that help define the bands sound.
Canadian Hardcore Punks Cancer Bats have made “Long Tooth” the second single from their upcoming album “Give Me Dirt” with a music video directed and edited by Mitch Barnes. It comes as the band prepare to play 2000 Trees Festival next month as their alter egos Bat Sabbath, embracing a deeper relationship with Marshall for
Pearl Drums, Zidljian Cymbals, Chaos Drum Sticks, Precision Kicks V2 Series Trigger, Czarcie Kopyto Pedals and Remo Drum Skins were harmed in the creation of a playthrough video as Psycroptic drummer David Haley destroys his rig for a demonstration of “Gathering a Venomous Herd“. The track appears on the bands upcoming Metal Blade Records releasing album
Former Nervosa vocalist Diva Satanica has joined Belgian Jasper for an interview ahead of the release of “Sons Of The Abandoned“, a new album from her project Bloodhunter. Curiously however the interview isn’t about the record but instead a more personal one that finds the pair talking about authenticity, self expression, personal growth, overcoming expectations
Continuing the waterfall release of singles with a myriad of guests, Tonic Breed have unveiled “Name Dealer“. This time out drummer Tommy Albridge (Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne) and guitarist Joel Hoekstra (Whitesnake, Trans-Siberian Orchestra) join multi instrumentalist Patrik K. Svendsen who reinvented the band as a solo project after four years in the wilderness in 2022.
Time To Kill Records have plucked a second single from the “Global Dominion” by Undertakers in “All Out War“. Trapped in the Bermuda triangle between Grindcore, Hardcore and Death Metal the album explores themes of power, control and submission in contemporary society. Cold, aggressive and direct, it’s a ruthless statement of resistance and awareness with no
