Month: June 2022

The Black Map #215: Row Of Ashes from London

Escaping Bristol and heading for the bright lights and streets paved in Gold of our capital city, while you throw down a couple of asprin and sip on an industrial strength coffee and wonder why you have a traffic cone in your bedroom it’s time we gave Row Of Ashes a short and yet sickly sweet

Playthrough: “Protoplasmic Imprisonment” from Unfathomable Ruination!

Showing off the unquestionable talents of new vocalist Mallika Sundaramurthy, London Extreme Metallers Unfathomable Ruination have shared a one take vocal performance of the final track of their 2019 record “Enraged And Unbound“, one called “Protoplasmic Imprisonment“. She will be making her live debut at two shows at the New Cross Inn in London as they

Bootleg: “Akudama” from Alpha Wolf!

Keeping the momentum going after the release of their new single “Hotel Underground”, Australian Nu-Metalcore aggressors Alpha Wolf have shared a live performance of “Akudama” from their current tour with Polaris. The aforementioned new cut is one that will appear on the bands upcoming split EP with Holding Absence called “The Lost and The Longing”

NEWS: Orthodox announce “Learning To Dissolve”!

The long awaited Century Media debut and follow up to the darkly brilliant “Let It Take It’s Course” from Nashville Metal Kings Orthodox is finally officially set for 19th August via Century Media. Titled “Learning To Dissolve” the band have celebrated the news with a Nick Chance directed music video for second single “Head On

NEWS: Vexes hit rock bottom…

Celebrating the release of their double album “Imagine What We Could Destroy /// If Only Given Time” former Vessl, Downstage and A Life Once Lost members united in New Jersey burgeoning alternative Metal quartet Vexes have dropped a music video for “At Nothing“. The cut that warns of the current high suicide and self harm

NEWS: Chaoseum follow Alice to Wonderland?

Taking what was great about Nu-Metal in the second half of the 90’s and pouring petrol on it to create a raging inferno are Swiss natives Chaoseum. They’ve followed album “Second Life” with a blistering new single in “My Wonderland” and once again welcome to the Museum of Chaos ahead of US shows in September

Bootleg: Deified at Bloodstock!

As the clock ticks down to this year’s incarnation of Bloodstock Open Air Festival in August there can’t be that many pro-shot full sets from last year’s 20th Anniversary event left can there? Celebrating “Anthrobscene” by Deified the organisers have spat out their half an hour of power performance from the Sophie Lancaster stage on

NEWS: Spirit Adrift warn of “Mass Formation Psychosis”!

When The Riff Beast Tour that will see Spirit Adrift supporting Crowbar across the US hits the Downtown Music Hall in Ft. Walton Beach in  Florida the band will be in celebratory mood as their next burnt offering “20th Centuries Gone” will have been released to the World via Century Media. “Mass Formation Psychosis” marks

NEWS: Hilltops Are For Dreamers seek purification?

While multi instrumentalist Vasilis Papageorgakopoulos quietly plans a revolution, fleshing out his studio project Hilltops Are For Dreamers for live performances, he has returned to the bands March released debut full length album “In Disbelief” to release a music video for “Unsoiled Soul“. A cut that achieves the impossible as a stand out in an album

NEWS: Praise the Sun announce “The Proffer Of Light” for September!

Recorded, mixed and master at Invent-Sound Studio by Szymon Grodzki, 10th September will finally see the international release of “The Proffer Of Light”, the debut album of Polish Melodic Death Metal band Praise the Sun. Formed in 2019 in Warsaw Poland the female fronted quintet made their mark with EP “The Art of Agony” in 2020,