Author: DJ Vapour

NEWS: BlackGold phone home once more!

Having already ripped through the country like a tornado with Pengshui at the end of April, mask wearing Nu-Metal quintet BlackGold have announced an autumn run of headlining shows with an as yet unnamed special guest. Before that the summer has a run of festivals on their agenda with 2000 Trees, Graspop Metal Meeting, Radar

NEWS: Shroud announce “Pax Nocturna”!

We’re not ones for using the cliché “long awaited, highly anticipated” often but in fairness we’ve waited a year since singles “The Eternal Void” and “All Creation” arrived for word of album “Pax Nocturna” from Canadian Blackened Thrash overlords Shroud. The four piece have now set a 4th June date with destiny, the record said

NEWS: Twist Lock: fuelled by frustration!

Frustrated with modern society, manipulation, and the growing divide created by money and power, Twist Lock bring the heat with a Beatdown Deathcore blend that has Metallic Hardcore influences at one end and Slam inspirations at the other. Their debut EP “Surplus Citizen“, is slated for a 12th June arrival musicians you may recognise from

NEWS: Kulk warned it would get worse…

Having toured the United Kingdom extensively in recent times with everyone from Conan to Crowbar and even Portrayal of Guilt to name but a few, Norwich based Doom duo Kulk have announced the follow up to 2024 album “It Gets Worse” will be appearing on 28th August via Church Road Records. Titled “Choosing to Die” it

Review: “A Pathetic Excuse For A Life” by Melting

“This first year of You Exist Because We Allow It has been absolutely nuts! It’s hard to put into words how full on it has been. All we know is that we are so grateful to have done all the things we have already done in such a short period of time. Camp Melting is

NEWS: Rabidfest announce final bands of 2026!

What was that lyric? “Just when you thought you had it figured out. That’s when the wave of terror comes crashing down“. You can bet your bottom dollar that when Danny Leal wrote that the Upon A Burning Body vocalist wasn’t thinking about Rabidfest, Oxford or The Bullingdon. But it seems kind of appropriate as

NEWS: Sounds of Delusion warn of fresh hell!

Ahead of their first ever live show on 29th May at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki, Sludge Metal trio Sounds Of Delusion have shared new song “Newborn“. Originally the solo project of Juuso Raatikainen (Swallow The Sun) the band now also features Okko Solanterä (Horizon Ignited, I Am the Night), Antti Karhu (Shining, Post Pulse) and

NEWS: Defiler don’t get even…

Tacoma Washington Downtempo Deathcore brutes Defier have returned without warning dropping the tactical nuke that is “Die Mad” and walking away like it was nothing. The track appears on their recently released EP “Trauma Model“, a record which sees them playing Seattle, Portland, Reno and Albany in celebration having been recorded, mixed and mastered in