“Ah, it’s time to relax. You know what that means. A glass of wine, your favorite easy chair. And of course, this compact disc Playing on your home stereo. So, go on, and indulge yourself. That’s right, kick off your shoes. Put your feet up. Lean back and just enjoy the melodies. After all, music
Occasionally during the feature we like to call The Black Map, that puts the spotlight on a few of the lessee lights of heaven in the United Kingdom Underground Metal scene, we like to raise the prospect of a blast from the past and in the case of Xenarch from Wigan, those words are very
Crossing the swords of Blackened Death Metal and Thrash and generating sparks with their war cries Leicester natives Blood Oath are Hardened Warriors of a different kind. Featuring former members of Black River Project, Mindlapse and Slavestate the five horse men of the apocalypse have delivered a pair of well received albums in 2017’s “Kingdom of
First described during the retreat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army from Russia in 1812 and rife in soldiers in the first World War, Trench Foot is a painful condition of the feet caused by long immersion in cold water or mud and marked by the blackening ans death of the surface tissue of the feet associated
The first entry on our Black Map of the UK Underground Metal scene for 2022 sees us head from Swindon and Deathcore brutes Tyrants to Bournemouth to talk about horror themed Metalcore quintet Prove Your Worth, quite literally flipping the genre script like a plot twist in a phycological thriller. As with other Theatricore acts, the
In your face confrontational Deathcore with Slamming Riffs, vocals that severs flesh from bones and some natural Hardcore elements forms the backbone of what Swindon’s Tyrants are all about, dropping a trio of singles in “Wretch“, “Apostle” and “Fear” since forming in early 2020 that have accumulated the better part of 196k of streams between
From Brighton and Glower we head North of the border to Scotland for this week’s entry in our Underground Map of the United Kingdom Underground Metal scene to talk about a band whose line up are spread between Aryshire and Glasgow. Taking influence from Chelsea Grin, Whitechapel and Thy Art Is Murder, the vision of
After a week off for bad behaviour (with a memory black spot, an unexpected tattoo and a day release tag) our weekly look at the lesser lights of heaven in the United Kingdom Metal Underground scene continues on the South Coast with Brighton Metallic Hardcore quintet Glower. A fresh outfit formed in 2019 who dropped
In a day and age where modern technology means that musicians no longer need to commit something to tape and send it across the planet via a well known courier service and wait months to get something back, International collaborations have offered up some truly unique listening experiences and innovations. One of those bands is
Like the eroding cliff faces, the walls of Metal sub-genres are gradually falling into the oceans which smash against them during wild storms with many bands often taking influences from all over the spectrum and creating their own hybrids. One of those is Kvilla who hail from Manchester, a place renouned for its Slam and
