Only our Black Map feature could take you from Weymouth in Dorset and Accursed Years to St. Andrews in Scotland and Catharist in a single Hulk sized death defying leap. The home of Golf and Scotland’s oldest seat of learning, the University of St Andrews is where they celebrate a decade of destruction since their
The history of the United Kingdom has been one which has seen these Islands invaded by Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians during the 5th and 6th centuries A.D., gradually creating a multi cultural heritage long before the arrival of Indians with dual citizenship due to the actions of Idi “Butcher of Uganda” Amin in the 1970’s.
Sheffield Shredders Utilitarian weren’t the only ones to have a spleen to vent in 2020 but they certainly put their rage to good use with not one but two records released in the year of the Great Plague. The first, entitled “Fight War, Not Wars. Destroy Power Not People” saw the trio of Jon Crowder
Having released a demo of “Invasion” in 2019, Manchester Thrash infused Death Metal quintet BruteAllies were not prepared to comprise when it came to recording their debut album. Vocalist James “Mallah” Bridges was joined by guitarist duo Luke Michniewski and Sonny Fox with a rhythm section of drummer Gabi Tretze and bassist Hassan Alemdar former
Known as the birthplace of radio after Guglielmo Marconi opened the World’s first wireless factory there in 1899, Chelmsford Essex is also home to a band who like to dabble in the space between Nu-Metal and Grunge with influences from the World’s of both rap and rock in Fatality. A quartet in Jordan Maze, Josh
After six years in the wilderness Reading Metalcore crew Terakai made a triumphant return with a pair of brand new singles for 2020 in “More To Say” and “All that Divides“, their first new material since 2014 album “Paradox“. It had been a long road for the quartet whose early days saw them persevering through a
After five years, two EPs and a “Best Metal Act” award at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards in 2017, Progressive Metal quintet Tiberius are a band entering the land of opportunity, where the streets are paved with Gold and everyone knows their name. At Tech-Fest at least. 2020 was a huge year for the band
Spending the better part of a year in the shadowy basement practice room (or dingy garage) recording a debut full length after the success of their 2017 EP “Reincarnate The Immortal“, Oxford quartet Force of Mortality had been been trimmed from a quartet to a trio [Christmas gag? Trimming the tree? Too soon? ~ Ed.]
Travelling from Manchester to Glasgow to pay homage to the violent Death Metal beast that is Scordatura for this weeks entry in our black book is very much the pilgrimage from hell. Waging their war on the masses for the past fifteen years with a trio of albums in 2020’s “Mass Failure” (which tells the
We’ve spoken before of the rich Metal scene in Manchester, so it’s no surprise to find us returning to the Northern powerhouse of a city for this week’s entry in our Black Map of the UK Underground Metal scene. Forged in fire and ice with songs that seamlessly blend the angular riffs of Carcass with
