The start of our awards season is here! This time out we’re cutting “Top #5 Live Bands of 2020!” from the awards for obvious reasons and it’s replacement is this, our countdown of the our “Top #5 Christmas Metal Songs of 2020” and if it’s popular, who knows, it could be here to stay! So
That’s right, it’s that time of year folks! Spotify Wrapped has given us the top 20 tunes we listened to in 2020, so rather than share the full list, we’re going to do what we did in 2019 and hit you with 5 of those records which we listened to the most in 2020. Just
Awards season seems to have started early this year with Revolver Magazine announcing their top 25 albums of 2020 with 36 days to go until New Years Day. So no hope for a pair of highly anticipated releases for December in “The Sins of Our Fathers” from Serbian Groove Death Metal band Mud Factory or “The Great
The influence of Mudvayne shouldn’t be underestimated when it comes to Technicality and during in their early records a certain amount of Progressive nature. Born out of the Nu-Metal era and featuring largely introspective lyrics from vocalist Chad Gray, they also made use of polyrhythmic sounds with guitarist Greg Tribbett and bassist Ryan Martine producing
10th October saw Nonpoint take to the stage for a pay-per-view live streamed set to celebrate 20 years of their major label debut album “Statement“, the Fort Lauderdale Florida quintet subsequently putting down 10 further records with vocalist Elias Soriano and drummer Robb Rivera being ever present in the group since 1996. In that time
Stoke-On-Trent Melodic Hardcore merchants Black Coast have announced a Crowd Funding campaign for their debut full length record after 3 EPs in 4 years as a band, entering the studio on 9th November to record material they have been working on for more than 18 months. Even if they don’t reach their target, the as
A band of legend centered around the work of Kirk Windstein as the only member who has been in the revolving door of the band over the last 32 odd years, Crowbar are the undisputed Kings of Louisiana Sludge Metal that takes the slow, brooding style of Doom Metal and Injects it with a lethal
Our boys in Hilltops Are For Dreamers have launched a crowd funding campaign to raise £1k towards a partial funding of their debut album which you can participate in here. A Melodic Death Metal band working with members across a trio of countries who have dropped an EP and a split EP in the past
To celebrate 20 years of the seminal sophomore album “Broke” by (hed)p.e. which achieved that anniversary status last month, we’re going to answer a question we’ve seen appear in many forums and comment sections around the time of the release. So many people said they hadn’t heard any (hed)p.e. material since “Broke” and with the
After much delay this years Heavy Music Awards finally took place last night and there weren’t many surprises in the winners this time around. It seems strange to have a Best Festival award at the end of a summer where there have been no festivals in the physical sense however it seems logical to award
