2020 is the Year of the Rat according to Chinese zodiac. This is a Year of Metal Rat, starting from Chinese New Year on 25th January 2020 and lasting until Lunar New Year’s Eve on 11th February. Rat is the first in the 12-year cycle of Chinese zodiac. Apparently Rats are quick thinkers, successful but
Promising new material in 2020, Russian Groove Metallers Feelament have used a bass playthrough video from Wally Yuchkevich to show some of that off. Their 2018 offering “Hate Delivery” was one we reviewed earlier this year so check it out. It’s available over at bandcamp here. And yes, he’s tattooed his face.
With video filmed by Drew Mestel, Shadow of Intent guitarist Chris Wiseman has laid down the guantlet for Death Metal guitarists new material in 2020 with a playthrough for “Dirge Of The Void“. The track appears on the bands current album “Meloncholy” which is a Symphonic Deathcore favourite in these parts.
In this latest drum cam footage, sticksman Matt Young performs “Withered” with Currents live at the Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia earlier this year. Having released “I Let The Devil In” via SharpTone Records this time last year and with new single “Poverty Of Self” appearing at the end of November, the band will be back
Despite landing a brilliant covers album in “DNA” not that long ago, French DJentlemen Kadinja have returned to their last original composition “Super 90” for this new playthrough of “Veronique” which was filmed by Simon Boro at Axone Studio and edited by Tom Gadonna. They’re an absolute class act.
Introducing his new Achilles 5 signature model bass by Overload Guitars, Eugene Abdiukhanov playthrough “Retrospection” from his band Jinjer during their soundcheck at Backstage Munich in Germany on 16th December. Their critically acclaimed album “Macro” is out now via Nuclear Blast and if you’ve been reading these very pages of late you’ll know that Aristic
Melodic Death Metallers JumpScare from Napoli Italy landed “Don’t Close Your Eyes” on our ear drums in October. Their full debut album after a couple of EPs and a split with Bormanus and Troy Southgate of HERR fame set the scene but JumpScare upped their game once more. They’ve shared a guitar playthrough of “Dead Bodies” to
Conjoined twins in the live arena “Every Blade” and “Replacing Every Weakness” go perfectly back to back like whiskey and water. Having signed to Pure Noise Records and released a compilation of tracks from 2018 in “Ripping Pulling Tearing”, we’re expecting a new full length from Chamber in 2020. Here’s drum cam footage of sticksman
In January, Thornhill will be joining Wage War and Ded on the “Pressure” Tour across Europe playing cuts from their brilliant debut album “The Dark Pool“. Sticksman Ben Maida can be seen wearing a Deadlights tee in this playthrough for “All The Light We Don’t See/Lily & The Moon”, that’s not the original Long Beach,
When it comes to Symphonic Deathcore, Shadow Of Intent have the genre nailed. The will we/won’t we question over a review of their album “Melancholy” before the end of 2019 remains in the air so in the mean time – here’s sticksman Anthony Barone performing a playthrough of “Gravesinger”. The video was shot by Clinton
