Last month saw the debut album “Bullet Proof” from a crowdfunded Metal Project called Death Mother provide us with some heavy grooves for the summer and with over a million streams between Spotify and YouTube it can be considered to have made an impact. Citing influences in Linkin Park, Bring Me The Horizon and Slipknot,
The second of our creature double feature of interviews with multi-instrumentalist Evangelos Vasilakos, the mastermind behind Edinburgh based Blackend Death Sludge Metal outfit Chestcrush is finally here after the release of the well received and brutally ugly monster that is “Vdelygmia”. It is the plague of nightmares that haunts with dark thoughts and apocalyptic visions wrapped
Having announced they will be joining Volumes, Varials and UnityTX on a US run in October, Kingsmen have teamed up with Producer Mark Lewis and recorded a cover of “Sad But True” in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of “The Black Album” from Metallica. They spoke to Alicia Atout and Ryan Downey from Knotfest about
It seems hard to believe but February this year saw the 20th Anniversary of “A Predators Portrait” from Swedish Melodic Death Metallers Soilwork. It was the first album where Björn “Speed” Strid used clean vocals, their first with Nuclear Blast and one which showcases just how good guitarist Peter Wichers was when he was in
A hugely successful crowdfunding campaign for a band who had release no prior material followed by a trio of singles that blew any form of expectations out of the water ahead of the champagne bottle smashing on the side of the the ship that is Dear Mother before it set sail on the voyage “Bulletproof”
Last month saw the release of “Vdelygmia” by Chestcrush, a full debut album that was highly anticipated in these parts after their demo quite literarily landed in our lap courtesy of Cardiff based Record Label FHED who released it on cassette. The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Evangelos Vasilakos (guitars, bass, lyrics, programming) that fuses Blackend Death
This weeks entry in the Metal Blade Live Series sees host and Allegaeon frontman Riley McShane chat to Sacha Dunable, the mastermind behind American Progressive Metal act Intronaut and Dunable Guitars. As well as last years “Fluid Existential Inversions” which features the drum skills of Alex Rüdinger (Whitechapel, Light the Torch, Cognizance), the conversation goes off
Taking a minute at Fajtfest Festival in the Czech Republic, Jinjer bassist Eugene Abdukhanov spoke to Metal Shop TV about the bands upcoming and highly anticipated fourth studio album “Wallflowers” as well as what it was like for a band known for their road worship to down tools for 18 months. You shouldn’t need us
“The Mountain Between Us”, “Flauros“, “Pure Fury & Wonder” and “Hello, Drifter“ have all appeared as singles over the four year gap between 2017’s “Human Nature” and 13th August releasing “Cura Nata” from Solid State Records signings Spirit Breaker and each one will appear on the album despite the oldest of those being released as
From their inception in 2018 to the release of their debut EP “Descent” a couple of weeks back, Bristol trio Moon Reaper have been at the coal face, creating spine crushing Metal that moves through sub-genres like a Juggernaut changing gears on the highway to hell, blending elements of Doom, Post, Progressive, Black and Sludge
