Author: DJ Vapour

Review: “Stillness and Suffering” by Tongues of Mercury

Just six months after they announced themselves to an unsuspecting world with debut EP “A Sense of Injury” in July 2025, multi instrumentalist Shaun Mitchell (Dead Man Risen, Soul’s Darkness, Dreams of Nightmares) and vocalist Jaime Ribeiro (Semyazah, Priest Killer, Abattoir of Shrikes) return with a follow up titled “Stillness and Suffering“. Inspired by various

NEWS: Nothingness dream of Trephination!

A third album and second in partnership with Everlasting Spew Records is on the horizon for Minneapolis Digressive Death Medal force Nothingness in “Godslaughter“. To create their latest burnt offering they’ve returned to engineer Adam Tucker (Thou, Suffering Hour, Cavernous Maw) of Signaturetone Recording for a third time, while also inviting Gabriele Gramaglia of Cosmic

NEWS: Monovoid make it six this summer?

While we impatiently await on the arrival of album “Dissolving The Brain” from Brighton masters of abrasive Metal Monovoid, the band have announced six shows for June and July to whet the appetite for destruction. They promise the record will be with us this summer so we’re kind of hoping that one of these shows

NEWS: The Conflux Collective unveil “Devouring Light”!

Montreal Extreme Metal collaborative force The Conflux Collective have shared a second single in “Devouring Light” from sophomore album “In the Wake of Saturn“. The record marks the reincarnation of a project once thought lost to time, rebuilt from the ground up by multi instrumentalist, composer and producer Tommy McKinnon after a decade of dormancy.

NEWS: Soulfly storm European Gates!

Hoping around Europe like a stone skipping across a million pond, this summer will see the thirteenth album from Soulfly celebrated across both Festivals and club shows with the Tribal Technology Tour. A battle cry against control and greed, “Storm The Gates” was the first single from “Chama“, a track which summons ancestral strength and

Bootleg: Ocean Planet in Banbury!

Filmed on a single static camera, Progressive Metal six piece Ocean Planet have shared their full set from The Wheatsheaf in Banbury on 30th May. The forty minute set runs to seven compositions including “Devastate” and “Siege Machine“, their next show being 11th July at The Jericho Tavern in Oxford. Don’t say we didn’t warn

Documentary: Speed at Sick New World!

Are Australian’s Speed ever not on tour?! They’ve shared a documentary featurette about playing Sick New World Festival in Las Vegas with the likes of KoRn and System of a Down that finds them living their best lives. The Sydney Hardcore crew have made a habit of dropping this kind of thing since they started

Documentary: “May-Hem” weekender with Hellbearer!

Manchester Thrash crew Hellbearer have documented the final three shows dubbed “May-Hem” with drummer Sam Hatt gracing the stool. The final night of the run saw them play Slayfest at the Brickmakers in Norwich, an event headliner by Breed 77 and Shrapnel as twenty eight bands took to two stages for some epic madness. If