Recorded by Tom Hill at The Bookhouse Studio and filmed by Joe Guppy, a one take drum playthrough from Employed To Serve sticksman Casey McHale with no edits is a thing of beauty. It’s for “Whose Side Are You On?” from the bands new album “Fallen Star” and finds him using and abusing gear from Pearl
Back in 2022 when we saw Novelists for Bury Tomorrow and August Burns Red we had no idea about the shape of punk to come from the French Progressive Metal act Novelists. Since then they’ve had their world flipped, turned upside down and inside out with new frontwoman Camille Contreras steadying the ship and becoming
Bloodstock Festival surviving Nu-Deathcore purveyors Dead Flesh have shared a drum playthrough video for recent single “D.N.R” that finds sticksman Michael ‘Nelly’ O’Neill proving his worth. The track was produced by Justin Hill (Hacktivist, The Five Hundred, SikTh) and fits nicely within their mission statement of wanting to create sound of “Blastbeats and breakdowns. Deathcore with depression.
Axe throwing pair Paul Johnson and Coop Schuh have been put through their paces and ordered to record a guitar playthrough of “The Reactor” from their album “Pathogenic Automation” by their band mates in Gorgatron. It follows the news that the Death Metal lovers will be appearing at this summer’s incarnation of Loud As Hell
After spending seven long years wandering the wilderness and musing on apocalyptic events and environmental destruction, Welsh Blackened Deathcore purveyors Plague Father returned in 2024 with single “Negation“. As if to confirm that wasn’t a flash in the pan “Self Exile” followed like a warning shot across the bow. Now, with new music in the
Any album adorned by artwork by the legend that is Dan Goldsworthy (Aborted, Buried Realm, Inhuman Condition) is one that demands your attention, so when Thraxas! chose his piece for “Violent Vacation” it turned heads. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure then a bass playthrough of “Rapid Descent Into Madness … And Brutality” by
A new single is always a good excuse for a playthrough video of some kind and so Beyond Extinction take a minute to confirm their guitarist Danny Russel proudly endorses Fender and Jackson Guitars playing the DKAF8-MS in this video and live. Titled “Winter Sun“, the track was mixed and mastered by Andy Mallaby (Osiah, Rituals)
Last month London based Sardinian Blackened Death Metal band Cogas gave us their second full length album “Among the Dead: How to Become a Ghost“, a DIY or DIE affair that is as raw and honest as it is intense and intricate. From that Guitarist Davide Ambu rages through “Absorption of the flesh through self abuse”
A drum playthrough for new single “Choking on the Rotten Seed” completed in one take, shot from three different angles without quantization or automating volumes has been shared by Celestial Sanctuary sticksman James Burke. The Cambridge Death Metal act have of course recently signed to Metal Blade Records following the success of 2023 sophomore album
In Infected Rain we trust and Moldova’s finest exports never disappoint which is why we know this one take vocal performance of “Pandemonium” by Lena Scissorhands is going to be the real deal. The cut is of course taken form their latest burnt offering “Time” with the band set to play a run of European
