As Festival Season reaches its conclusion, Inverse Records will be releasing the debut album ”Plains of Oblivion” from Blackment, a band that has existed in one form or another since 2014. That will drop on 9th September with new single “Clouds” painting the black to grey as they showcase a lighter moment from the record.
“A newly improved sound has taken hold, evolved yet still dissonant and macabre as ever before, but with a dark progressive twist to the songwriting. This newfound direction has enabled the function; to create audio scapes that fill the mind with a dreadful fleeting embrace. The embrace of what it must feel like to be
Treking over snow capped mountains, cutting our way through Jungle undergrowth, crossing treacherous rivers and walking through graveyards in the dead of night, we head from the sunny south coast city of Brighton and Glass Grave to leafy Oxford to talk about The Hope Burden for this week’s essential hangover reading. It’s Sunday morning, so
The story of Mantah began in 2018 when Bart Vandeportaele exited stage left from Spoil Engine after eight years. Over the next couple years he began working with members former members of Fields of Troy, Diecast Unit, Fields of Troy, Lethal Injury and Bloodrocuted, a collection of musicians grew up in the heart of the
A hybrid of Florida Death Metal, UK Grindcore, and classic 80s Thrash, Thirteen Goats stampeded out of Canada and into our eardrums with the politically-charged single “Return to Ruin” last month. The first single from their upcoming debut record “Servants of the Outer Dark” is inevitably followed by a second and “Unholy Mass” takes the
The return of the Impericon Never Say Die Tour will be making another whirlwind tour across Europe in November… and it’s going to be heavy. After The Burial and Suicide Silence will be co-headlining this year’s incarnation with Currents, Spite, Invent Animate, Cabal and Boundaries all making their presence felt. The stops upon our shores
If a new album is on the way then logic dictates that Gloom Metal pioneers Loathe would drop it prior to this freshly announced October headlining tour with support from Void Of Vision and Omerta as their current album “I Let It In And It Took Everything” has surpassed its second anniversary. Although two and two
While he may no longer be part of Deathcore transcending American act Whitechapel, Alex Rudinger is still an incredible drummer and solely responsible for percussive battery on their current album “Kin“. He’s shared what he promises is the first of four one take playthrough videos for cuts from that record in “The Ones That Made
Alphaville’s finest Imperial Triumphant have premiered another cut from “Spirit of Ecstasy” due out 22nd July via Century Media. Titled “Merkurius Gilded” and featuring guest appearances from Kenny G and Max Gorelick it offers a flavour of what the avant-garde act have in store, complete with a video directed and edited by Steve Blanco who
What do Killswitch Engage, Baroness, Suicide Silence, Motionless In White, Fit For An Autopsy, Spiritbox and Animals As Leaders all have in common? At various points in September and October in the US they’ll all be supporting Grammy-nominated Groove Metal overlords Lamb Of God as they rip up the road with new cuts from “Omens“.
