Returning for a special edition due to popular demand, our riff police series continues to educate the people of the Globe in the ways of noticing when a guitarist has been hero worshipping just that little too much and strayed from the left hand path into territory that has lawyers sharpening their pencils. It’s been
Returning like an old flame that you simply can not extinguish no matter how hard you try, our Riff Police series lands once more for the second time this summer after nine months at her majesty’s pleasure. A hundred and sixty three times we’ve put together a pair of cuts which may or may not
It’s the return of the… wait? what? who? That’s right! After nearly 9 months off for bad behaviour we figured it’s time to bring back our Riff Police feature for the second Thursday in June. Anyone who has read these pages over the last five years knows the drill; we hear a track with a
Having clocked up an astonishing 19 million views on YouTube for the music video “Crushed” has to go down as one of the cuts that sees Byron Bay Metalcore merchants Parkway Drive at their absolute finest. There certainly can be no doubt that their fifth studio album inĀ 2015’s “Ire” from which it was taken
Having been absent without leave since the beginning of July it’s time we resurrected and reanimated the corpse of our Riff Police feature and brought it back to life with something wicked. Back in April, Spanish Cult Black Metal outfit Ouija made their return with a three track offering titled “Selenophile Impia“, their first new
Celebrating the first anniversary of their album “Hindsight“, Deathcore collective Emmure unveiled a previously unreleased track entitled “Sons of Medusa“, a short, sharp and brutally heavy number that was originally planned to serve as the introduction piece for the album, their second with guitarist Joshua Travis and drummer Josh Miller and first with bassistĀ Nicholas
When people talk about influence, there can’t be much more influential than Pantera. The phrases “inspired a generation” are often used when people talk about the likes of Nirvana but in the case of bands with the longevity that both bands have, with millions of Worldwide listeners, t-shirt wearers and name drops decades after the
In an alternate Universe, when the SWAT team arrived at Nakatomi Plaza they were forced into retreat by a Corpse paint wearing Giant Troll, dressed in black with spiked wrist guards who was blasting Behemoth from a ghetto blaster. His black toothed grin and poisonous breath enough to repel bullets. But that’s a whole other
Last week saw the long awaited and highly anticipated arrival of “Maleza” by Spanish duo BALA, their debut for Century Media and third is all. The critically acclaimed pair have already paid their dues with records that have made them something of a Global force as they have lit up festivals such as Stone and
We do nothing but resurrect old beef in this feature so if you’ve heard this one before, feel free to skip it. The choice of the 2017 “Chaos” European tour trek poster at the end of this piece is a reference to the album that Atlanta Georgia Party Deathcore animals Attila unleashed the year previously.