There isn’t smoke without fire and those flames rise from a furnace in the case of London quartet After Smoke Clears. A band who love to bend Tech and Groove elements together, they have crafted 10 new tracks, carved unapologetically from stone and are set to drop them on our unexpecting skulls on 12th November
Oxford isn’t just famous for a University rivalry with Cambridge and a boat race. The city is also home to Desert Storm, a Progressive Sludge Metal act who have toured all over Europe in the last 13 years, performing at festivals including Bloodstock Open Air, Desertfest (London & Berlin), Langeln Open Air (Germany), Wasted Open
Originally formed as a quartet in late 2016 and hailing from Dundee in Scotland, Catalysis laid their foundations with a pair of EPs in 2017’s “Into The Unknown” and 2018’s self-titled “Catalysis” while making regular Viking style raids across Scotland for shows with bands like To Kill Achilles, Black Blood and Harbinger. As anyone in any
From London this week we h as to Norwich for this week’s entry in our Black Map of the UK Metal Underground Scene (Trademark, Patient applied for). Signed to One Eyed Toad Records, February saw Apollo Stands drop their EP “Minds” before competing at The Brickmakers against Perseus, Horse Called War, Terrorcaust and Hollow Reign
The beginning of the summer saw us enter through the gates of madness with the filthy Blackened Thrash of Zebadiah Crowe and their new album “Host Rider” via Lore Breaker Records. They had to get a sharpie out and do a Wendy O of the Plasmadics or Butcher Babies style nipple tape cover up to be
Hailing from Stevenage, the first of a number of new towns built on the outskirts of London after World War II and with a population of 80k, Deathcore six piece with a trio of guitarists, Clockwork Sky specialise in the combination of eerie, haunting atmospheres, skull crushing breakdowns and a violent vocal assault. Terrorising the
Who?! What?! Where?! It’s Sunday, which can only mean one thing. Nursing a hangover and headbanging whiplash from the night before while reading about one of the lesser lights of heaven from UK Underground Metal Scene in our weekly Black Map feature. It’s #118 weeks old, the longest running of the series on Metal Noise,
Famed for its Rugby and being the home of The Theatre Royal, St. Helens is the home of Deified. Back in 2015, they won the annual Metal 2 The Masses event for Merseyside and took their place, rightfully earned, at Bloodstock Festival. The band had formed in 2013 with Jamie Hughes (Vocals), Matt Pike (Guitar),
While working with a bigger name producer in Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghosts, Cathedral, Myrkur) on their new EP “Bring Me Suffering“, the follow up to the critically acclaimed “These Hollow Gods“, Milton Keynes based Dark Melodic Metallers Chasing Ghosts discovered that their man was multitasking. Not that it came as a great surprise, we all
