Review: “Beyond Death” by Our Last Crusade

Eight string Metal merchants Our Last Crusade may have seemed quiet since the release of their well received 2023 album “Death Wins” but it’s the quiet ones, as they say, you have to look out for. Hailing from Calgary Alberta Canada, the band have been cutting their own path through the urban jungle since 2010

NEWS: Torchia cross into the realm of the dead!

A second piece of the puzzle has emerged from Finnish Extreme Metal force Torchia with a music video for “Nekromanteion”. The track serves as the opening one on their new album “They Are Born Under Rules of the Darkness” which will arrive on 8th May via Rockshots Records with a gothic horror narrative said to be

NEWS: Caustic unveil “Dead Mind Job”!

After eleven years wandering in the wilderness, Spanish Death Metal act Caustic have warned that their fourth studio album “Inner Deflagration” will finally see the cold light of day on 10th April via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. The record serves as an introduction to the fans for new guitarist Ismael Luna (Kreyl, Mercenario, Encadenats)

Review: “Chapters” by Deadvoid Inc.

Hailing from the axis of Mikkeli–Jyväskylä–Helsinki in the depths of Finland, Deadvoid Inc. are a freshly conceived Melodic Death Metal band who, in their own words, decided to build something new in the midst of everything old. The project started to take shape in 2025 with guitarist Tuomas Torikka (Life Suffers Defeat, ex-Deathropy) and vocalist

NEWS: Rabidfest announce first wave of bands for 2026!

Roll up, roll up, read all about it! As we know Oxfords finest Metal Weekender Rabidfest will take place over the 31st October and 1st November 2026 with no less than twenty bands set to descend upon The Bullingdon for another round of blood, sweat and beers in the mosh pit. The question at this

NEWS: Iron Kingdom warn of the apocalypse!

Following the announcement of their presence at both Armstrong Metal Fest and Loud As Hell Open Air Festival this summer, it comes as no surprise that Canadian Traditional Heavy Metal masters Iron Kingdom have new material waiting in the wings. The four piece have set a 6th June release date for their sixth studio album

NEWS: Hellripper warn of “Mortercheyn”!

Another cut from the fourth studio album “Coronach” by Scottish Blackened Speed Metal masters Hellripper has surfaced in “Mortercheyn“. The title is an archaic Scottish term for glanders, a serious, contagious, and often fatal infectious disease primarily affecting horses, which makes perfect sense when you read the lyric “Coal black horses all but perishing“. The album drops

NEWS: The Eternal cast no shadow…

If you missed the memo (or our review) of EP “Celestial” in January then we recommend you check out this freshly released lyric video for “Casting Down Shadows” by Australian-Finnish dark metal outfit The Eternal. The track represents what the four piece are all about, blending Doom, Gothic and Melodic Metal while finding a balance

NEWS: Whitechapel! Tribal Gaze! 200 Stab Wounds! Sylosis! early 2027!

2026 maybe less than 70 days old but American Deathcore institution Whitechapel are already plotting a course across Europe for early 2027. The run is dubbed “Burn Forever European Tour 2027” and will see them joined by Tribal Gaze, 200 Stab Wounds and Sylosis, the later of whom will be performing co-headlining sets in the

NEWS: Voidthrone enter the fever dream…

Structured as a three-part cosmic death ritual, a new album in “Dreaming Rat” by Seattle Dissonant Blackened Death Metal quartet Voidthrone follows a triptych of parallel arcs. A solar system burning through its lifespan, a civilization collapsing under its own complexity, and a parasite replicating itself across language, culture and flesh all happens in the