They always say expect the unexpected and if you’d told us before we reviewed it that “From The Ashes” by Turin Italy based Melodic Death Metal project Coiled Around Thy Spine would be a heavyweight contender for our Top #5 albums of 2021, we would have done a double take. Not that their 2018 debut
Last weekend saw the return of London Death Thrash Metallers The Bleeding with “Rise To Nothing”, a compilation record that includes a blistering new cut in the title track. The follow up to the critically acclaimed pair of albums in “Rites of Absolution” and “Morbid Prophecy“, it sees the band cite influences from Slayer, Morbid
“The theme behind Obsession is addiction, whether it’s sex, food, drugs or even social media. Addiction is a very real and dominating issue in many people’s lives, possibly even more so now during a time where we’re all trying to cope through a particularly challenging time” ~ TrendKill Taking 2021 by the scruff of the
Last week saw Against Evil, a Traditional Heavy Metal quartet from the city of Visakhapatnam in India unveil their highly anticipated third album “End Of The Line“. Formed in 2014 and combining elements of traditional heavy metal, power metal and speed metal with modern production value, the band are on a crusade to take on
This week has been something of a celebration of our Indonesian Metal brothers Huminoid as the Manado based Metallic Hardcore six piece landed their self titled sophomore EP on Planet Metal with a satisfying crunch. We’ve waxed lyrical about how they started life as a Death Metal outfit before getting rid of their initial recordings
The second of our two interviews with Derby Tech-Metallers The Cartographer sees them joining the likes of My Latest Failure, Penny Coffin, Akkadian and of course Weaponry in talking about the method behind the madness, the work that goes in behind the scenes when it comes to writing and recording their precious works. They’ve delivered
Hailing from Manado in Indonesia, Huminoid are a six piece who caught our ears with their debut EP “All Hell Broke Loose” in October last year, a three track effort that served as the bands first wrecking ball strike at the World of Metallic Hardcore having opening transcended to the genre having started out as
Last week saw the return of Derby Tech-Metallers The Cartographer with their sophomore EP “Mind Atlas”. We say ‘return‘ but they had never really been away; they just found a few stumbling blocks along the path from creating their debut “Human Error” to creating “Mind Atlas” but giving them their due, it has been worth
Canadians As We Suffer may have begun life as a cover band but as they evolved into writing their own music, they focused on a more metal-infused skate punk vibe with major influence stemming from Pennywise, Strung Out, and NOFX before shapeshifting even further with a Metalcore leaning along the lines of early Killswitch Engage
Writing catchy as f*** Hardcore injected Punk tunes is the stock in trade for London trio My Latest Failure. Their so freshly released it is still warm from from the oven sophomore EP, the cunningly titled “Failures Vol. 2” saw them do what they do best while outdoing themselves in terms of quality and stepping
