Review: “The Night Makes Us” by Champions Of Sorrow

What could be better than a swan dive into the asphalt? How about a debut EP from a Melodic Deathcore influenced Death Metal band who hail from Helsinki Finland? Champions Of Sorrow, a project which pairs multi instrumentalist Ville Jokilehto with vocalist Ville Rutanen of Anima Hereticae and Red Moon Architect fame are the band in question, the EP

Rabidfest 2024: Breaking Down The Bands #16: Existentialist!

1 stage! 20 bands! zero clashes! That’s what’s happening when Rabidfest takes over The Bullingdon in the heart of Oxford for the weekend of 2nd and 3rd November. It’s the winter warmer that will make you throw away that nasty Pumpkin Spiced Latte and get in a cold beer as the searing heat of the

NEWS: Hope Is A Lie dance with the devil?

They may have only announced themselves to an unsupecting World this summer but Finnish Post Metal operatives Hope Is A Lie have already inked a deal in blood with Inverse Records for a self titled debut album. That will appear on 13th December with an unholy trinity of singles set to surface between now and

NEWS: Vinodium ask “¿En Qué Mundo Vivimos?”

The question is a simple one. What Kind of World Do We Live In? Day after day, injustice after injustice, we ask questions like that which never get answered. The single “¿En Qué Mundo Vivimos?” overflows with anger and disillusionment. A bitter melody confronting a society clinging to a stale and outdated past, like the

NEWS: In times of peace, Distorta prepare for war!

Fuelled by themes of conflict, death and redemption, a sophomore EP titled “Dead man” will be available everywhere on 7th October courtesy of Ballarat Australian Metal act Distorta. Fusing together Groove, Death, Power and Thrash Metal with choruses you can sing alongside insane growls and screams from Dmitry Keremetskiy, the record has been preceded by

NEWS: Defiled Serenity sleep now in the fire!

After the release of their first stand-alone single ”Voices from the Void” in 2022 which has surpassed 25k streams on Spotify alone, the time is finally upon us for a debut album from Defiled Serenity. The Melodic Death Metal band from Loimaa Finland founded by Before The Dawn frontman Paavo Laapotti in 2021 have spent

NEWS: Lacuna Coil announce “Sleepless Empire”!

Italian Metal titans Lacuna Coil have finally announced their 10th studio album, “Sleepless Empire” with the arrival of a third single from it in “Oxygen“. The inspiration for their first collection of new songs since 2019’s “Black Anima” is said to have come during the sessions for 2022’s “Comalies XX“, a well received remake of

NEWS: Rotnest need a tow truck?

Set to join Divisive and Yugen for their first ever show on 2nd November at The End in Nashville Tennessee are Rotnest. The Deathcore heavy hitters are claiming it’s the one and only opportunity to witness them this year so ahead of time they’ve dropped a new single in “Eldritch” alongside a music video. Enough

NEWS: High Inquisitor Woe. Of Wolf and Man?

A tribute to the ancient Roman ritual of the Lupercalia, a second single from the upcoming album “Painted Vision of an Era Forlorn” has surfaced from the black depths in “He Who Wards Off Wolf” by Belgian Epic Doom Metal act High Inquisitor Woe. The record is out via Gio Smet Records on 28th October.

NEWS: Maudiir audition for remake of “A Few Good Men”?

An outlet for observations on obedience and industrialization riddled with man made waste for multi instrumentalist and vocalist Frédéric Bergeron, one man project Maudiir is as pure as the Maple syrup that his homeland is famed for. Unadulterated Canadian Blackened Progressive Thrash is the name of the game with “Toute Vérité” (or “All Truth“) the