Category: The Black Map

The Black Map #185: Seasons Awake from Hereford!

After a week off while we attended last weekends Rabidfest in Oxford, it’s time to return once again to our longest running feature, The Black Map, a weekly insight into the UK Underground Metal scene. As the headline suggests, it’s to deepest darkest Hereford that we travel, 16 miles away from the border with Wales

The Black Map #184: LVCIFYRE from London!

Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun or working like a slave? It’s that time of the week once again, when nursing a hangover with hot coffee and aspirin, we talk about one of the lesser lights of heaven in the UK Metal Underground scene in a weekly feature we call The Black Map. This

The Black Map #183: Bleed Again from Brighton!

In a change from the scheduled transmission this weeks entry in our Black Book of the UK Underground Metal scene we call “The Black Map” is all about Brighton Metalcore outfit Bleed Again. In just 5 days time the band will be dropping their sophomore album “Resurgence“, four years after their debut album “Momentum” went

The Black Map #182: Azazel from Nottingham!

The Black Map isn’t around the World in 80 Days but an ongoing weekly feature that enables us to tell you about a few of the lesser lights of Heaven when it comes to the UK Underground Metal scene. So from the Isle Of Man last week we head head to Nottingham and the house

The Black Map #181: Aeons from the Isle Of Man!

Taking the guide book and throwing it out of the nearest open window, Aeons are a Progressive Technical Metal quintet who instead chose to go with with flow and cut their own path through the overgrowth. They are able to do that thanks to their dedication to their craft as they ably amalgamate the light

The Black Map #180: Insurgent from Birmingham!

By unveiling their debut EP “Sentient” with just enough time to get it into our greasy paws before this year’s incarnation of Bloodstock Open Air Festival, Birmingham Progressive Metalcore outfit Insurgent ensured their lyrics could be sung back to them by a packed audience. Not that anyone who had seen them live before wouldn’t have

The Black Map #179: Blind Summit from Manchester!

In a few weeks time Manchester Metallers Blind Summit will be hitting the road for run of shows with Exist Immortal and so there probably has never been a better time for us to give them a mention. Let’s face it, that’s what this easy like Sunday morning feature that we like to call The

The Black Map #178: Internal Conflict from Leicester!

In choosing Neil Hudson (Krysthla, From Eden To Exile) at Initiate Audio & Media Studios in Northampton to mix and master their sophomore album “Aphoria“, Leicester based Metalcore outfit Internal Conflict put their money where their mouths are and got the best person for the job. The album title means “An irresolvable internal contradiction or

The Black Map #177: Far From Refuge from Cambridge!

It’s Sunday, which can only mean one thing. Recovering from the excess of the night before with a hot cup of coffee in a hot coffee cup while reading about a band we’ve chosen to spotlight as one of the lesser lights of heaven on the UK Metal Underground scene. So from Aberdeen to Cambridge

The Black Map #176: Cyclops Cataract from Aberdeen!

Heading from Shrewsbury to Aberdeen for this week’s entry in our Black book of the UK Metal Underground scene that we like to call The Black Map, we turn our attentions to another one of the lesser lights of heaven in Cyclops Cataract. Having begun their work with a debut EP in “Swallow The World”