Review: “What Dwells Below” by Throne Of Roaches

Hailing from the metropolitan city of Malmö in Sweden Throne Of Roaches have been making a name for themselves with a sound that lives between the worlds of Deathcore and Melodic Death Metal since 2023. The following year only saw them unleash their debut EP “Infested Dominion” but also winning Emergenza Sweden, before going on

5 Albums I Want To Be Buried With #39: The Cartographer!

Ever wondered about your favourite bands inspirations, influences or guilty pleasures when it comes to music? We certainly do! After reviewing their blistering new album “The Collapse Of A Bitter End“, we spoke to Derby Deathcore heavyweights The Cartographer about the albums they’d take with them to the afterlife and their selections are intriguing. If

NEWS: Inheritors need mosh pit therapy!

Having previously only issued threats in English, Inheritors, a Crossover Thrash Metal unit from Malang in Indonesia have fired their first warning shot in their native tongue. Titled “Intoksikasi“, the track has a satirical lyrical narrative about social resistance and “mosh pit therapy” as they turn their obsession with heavy music into a collective therapy for

Bootleg: Madrost in Los Angeles!

Continuing to raid the archives Madrost have shared a full set filmed at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles on 1st November 2009. It features such classics as “Under the Hammer” and “Aggressive Nihilism” adding weight to the five live albums the Californian Thrash quartet have unleashed since inception in 2007. The question is,

NEWS: Party Cannon! Internal Bleeding! Gutteral Slug! Déjà vu? 2027!

Having completed a European run together earlier this year, Scottish Slamming Death Metal force Party Cannon and New York Death Metal veterans Internal Bleeding will be joining forces for a co-headlining run again next year. This time out  Guttural Slug will be opening the shows which will run from Hoogeveen to Kortrijk as follows:

NEWS: BleedSkin return to the crime scene?

Featuring a guest vocal appearance from Clémence Plapied of Locked Years fame, Belgian Brutal Death Metal trio BleedSkin have celebrated the second anniversary of their album “Homicidal Therapy” with new single “Quiet Compulsion“. Mixed and mastered by Julien Huyssens (InHuman, Neverus, Omnerod) it appears alongside a music video by CM Studio Videography and lands after the

NEWS: Black Spikes speak of demons…

It seems “Ydos” is the gift that keeps giving as Napalm Records signings Black Spikes have returned to their freshly released concept record for a music video for “Senas Demonas“. The Lithuanian avant-garde Metal outfit describe it as a dark fairy tale about human vices which pushes the boundaries of what Progressive Metal means, so

Review: “What We Leave Behind” by The Crawling

“The EP is an acknowledgement that the past is behind us. We spend too long lamenting what has been, rather than being mindful of the present and the joy it can bring. Then, when we finally realise time has slipped away, we begin mourning that as well. The constant mourning of time is a sickness.”

NEWS: Hurakan make it three with disgrace!

A third single from a fourth studio album “Eternal Scars” by French Deathcore brutes Hurakan has surfaced in “Disgrace“. Produced, mixed and mastered by Niko “HK” (Betraying The Martyrs, Sinsaenum, Vented) at Vamacara Studio, the record has a 30th October date against it for release, the band doing so independently. Pre-orders including an incredible looking