Category: Spotlight

Spotlight: CKN ranks the Trivium albums!

Trivium are a band that has alwahs divided Metal fans. On the one hand, there is plenty of love in some quarters given their phenomenal live show, wide ranging guitar work and undoubted technical musicanship. On the flip side, some Metal fans dislike the clean vocals and introspective lyrics that have been part of the

Spotlight: Most Metal Streams?

Metal Sucks have put together a list of the most streamed Metal acts on Spotify, courtesy of the Spotify Wrapped campaign which started releasing its statistics to the unsuspecting World last week. The list contains more than a few surprises with bands who haven’t released material in several years like Throwdown managing to a achieve

Spotlight: Loathe & Trivium rated in “10 Best Live Bands”!

Whatculture.com have taken it upon themselves to join Listmania season with a “10 Best Live Bands of 2018”. To be fair, starting with Trivium at #10 is a great shout as they are indeed a live force of emmence power. For those that have seen them Loathe at #1 is also a fantastic call. No place

NEWS: 10 Metal Bands in Mainstream Media!

Getting more Metal into TV, films, radio and other mainstream media has to be a thing. After all, when you recognise a Slayer riff on a TV advert, you’re paying attention, right?! Ultimate-guitar.com have put together 10 of the most notable appearance including Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse, Anthrax and Pantera. You can check it out

Spotlight: Kmac2021 talks Top 10 albums for 2018!

It maybe a little bit early for the albums of 2018 with the whole month of December to go but Kmac2021 has gone in deep with this very interesting Top 10 list. While Brighton Progressive Metalcore Heroes Architects will no doubt feature on plenty of this year’s lists, we doubt whether Time, The Valuator will

Spotlight: The Labels That Saved Our Lives!

Kerrang! Magazine have written an article about 11 American Record Labels that made us fall in love with the sound. It’s an interesting list with the Christmas Listmania season fast approaching and uses some of the finer albums to make its point. Notable absentees include Roadrunner Records, though it has to be said their influence

Spotlight: The Return of Static-X!

Having taken the time to digest the announcement that the remaining members of the original line-up of Static-X (Bassist Tony Campos, Drummer Ken Jay & Guitarist Koichi Fukuda) are reforming the band to record a new album “Project Regeneration” and tour the World for the 20th Anniversary of “Wisconsin Death Trip”, it’s time we talked about

NEWS: Tony Campos announces NEW Static-X album!

As the 20th Anniversary of “Wisconsin Death Trip” will be 2019, the original members of Static-X are reuniting to record a new album entitled “Project Regeneration”. The album and a 20th Anniversary World Tour will be a tribute to the much loved and dearly departed Wayne Static, who passed away on 1st November 2014 of

NEWS: Kerrang! Go Evil with 50.

You’d think they’d have left it until Halloween but Kerrang! Magazine have continued the Listmania season with their Mammoth 50 Most Evil Songs Ever! It’s an interesting read, even if there is no place for any Type O Negative or Wednesday 13. The variety however is present with everyone from Slipknot to The Beatles appearing