Blending traditional Black Metal with Thrash to enrich their compositions to give them primal fury and energy with darkened melodies and rhythmic diversity, Kolac have a self titled album set for the 3rd February 2024 on Pest Records. Loosely a concept record revolving around the usage of stakes (“kolac” in Serbian language) as punishment methods
The Egyptian flavours of Progressive Metal continue to flow through the veins of Shokran as they unveil a third single in “Hathor: Drunken With Blood” from a highly anticipated album pushed back to February 2024 due to guitarist Dmitry Demyanenko needing time to recuperate from serious injury. The album remains unnamed and undated with the
They may have only released EP “The Design, The Disaster” in April but that hasn’t stopped Metalcore aggressors Copehill Down from finishing the year on a high with new single “Miasma” on the day that they play their final show of the year. They play The Bunkhouse in Swansea alongside State Of Deceit, Collapse The
“A worthless man that’s all I am and all I’ll ever be. Why stay alive there is no reason as far as I can see. Voice in my head keeps on begging for sweet release. Death is my only friend and he wants to hang with me”
A chill out rendition of their new single “Mourning The Dawn” finds one half of French Progressive Metal act Novelists on the sofa and sounding like they’re preparing to move into Oceans of Slumber territory. The band are of course preparing themselves for a lengthy European tour trek with Americans The Word Alive, Elwood Stray and Ashen
“We‘re the devil riders from the pits of hell, We’ll make you feel the burn with our rebel yell, We’re the cowboys from hell and we’re here to stay, We’ll take you down come whatever may”
The award for creating a tongue twister of an album title impossible to say when drunk goes to Inquisition for “Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence“. That’s pencilled in for 26th January 2024 via Agonia Records with the Seattle Washington Black Metal outfit choosing “A Hidden Ceremony of Blood and Flesh” offering the first
A third and final single of 2023 from Minnesota Progressive Metalcore act Reflections has surfaced as the band prepare for a couple of months of shows at the turn of the year. Titled “Alone“, curiously it was originally written, recorded and pencilled in for an early 2022 arrival before the band revised it before deciding
Conjoining “Resurrect” and “World Inferno” into a single music video means we get three minutes of Thrash infused Hardcore from Dutch heavyweight champions Lies! as they continue to promote their new album “Mind Pollution“. A record which features a guest appearance from Hugo Zerrad of French Metallic Hardcore outfit Worst Doubt, its a tornado of
Roman warriors Doomraiser have spent the better part of twenty years pushing Doom Metal in crushing new directions, contaminating their music with raw heavy metal, psychedelia and other influences. They have shared their cover of “Procreation of the Wicked“, one of six cuts to appear on a compilation from Italian label Time To Kill Records titled