The better part of two years in the making, Averted are preparing to release their debut EP “Silenced” on 13th May. In the beginning guitarist Jamie Stevens and drummer Merlin Parr got together in April 2018 to create Technical Metalcore sounds and it wasn’t long before they realised that they had created something that they
Changing your band name after a style shift is always an interesting move, especially if that means holding onto the older material. Leeds quartet KVX started out in 2016 under the moniker Kovax and after numerous singles, a debut EP “If There Was Ever Any Doubt” and gigs up and down the country with the
Back in the summer of 2018 we had the pleasure of witnessing a set from a band we’d never heard of before at Tech-Fest. Appearing on the Waghorn Guitars Stage at Newark Showground were From Eden To Exile who were playing material from their 2017 album “Modern Disdain“. They’d been on quite the journey already,
Travelling 36 miles from Watford to Woking for this week’s entry in our Black Map of the UK Underground Metal scene, it’s time for us to give a deserved mention to Sludge Grove Metal quartet Gutlocker. Currently waiting to record their debut full length album with their 2018 EP “Cry Havoc” being joined by a
In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four, Room 101 is the basement torture chamber of the Ministry of Love in which the Party subject prisoners to their own worst nightmares, fears or phobias to break their resistance. A novel that draws on the consequences of Government over reach, totalitarianism and mass surveillance, it would actually make
Formed back in August 2014 Progressive Tech Metallers with a Melodic edge Sertraline have spent the last 6 years playing shows with the likes of Ingested, Voyager and Butcher Babies while performing at the likes of Bloodstock Open Air in 2018, UK Tech-Fest in 2019 and BLOVE Festival to build their fanbase and establish a
Heading 89 miles from Liverpool down the M6 to Wolverhampton for this weeks journey into uncharted territory that is the Black Map of the UK Underground Metal scene, it’s time to check out Suffer. They’re a five piece Beatdown Deathcore collective with a reputation for leaping Metal sub-genres in single death defying bounds, being more
March is going to see Skywalker embark on their first ever bus tour, heading from Russia to Germany with stops in Poland, Switzerland and Italy. That’s because the Liverpool via Prague Post Hardcore quartet are joining Unity TX and First Blood in supporting Deez Nuts on their headlining tour for “You Got Me F***ed Up“.
Formed in Cambridge in 2017, Melodic Death Metal project Akilla was based on the axis of song writing duo of guitarist Ross Wilson and now ex-guitarist Ryan Slater. After trialing a few individuals the pair settled on bassist and backing vocalist Jonny Dawson and Will ‘Ginge’ Taylor on drums in early 2018 to complete their
It’s been a while since we crossed the Irish Sea for a page in our black book of the Underground Metal Scene that is otherwise known as The Black Map so we figured it’s about time we spread the word about Dirty Casuals from Cork City. The Groove Doom quartet with just a hint of
