Escaping Bristol and heading for the bright lights and streets paved in Gold of our capital city, while you throw down a couple of asprin and sip on an industrial strength coffee and wonder why you have a traffic cone in your bedroom it’s time we gave Row Of Ashes a short and yet sickly sweet
Two Hundred and Fourteen. That’s how many of the lesser lights of heaven in the UK Metal Underground scene we’ve put a spotlight brighter than a solar flare on with our weekly feature “The Black Map“. The numbers will only keep getting higher because the number of bands coming and going from the scene is
After a trip to London to talk about Throne Of Icarus and then Taunton to spotlight Flayed Disciple, this week’s entry in The Black Map, our weekly look at one of the lesser lights of heaven from the United Kingdom Underground Metal scene finds us in Sunny Brighton. There we find Glass Grave, a quintet
From London and Thrash infused Metalcore merchants Throne Of Icarus we head to Taunton in Summerset. A place with a thousand year history which includes a 10th Century monastic foundation built by the Normans in Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. But we’re not here to talk about that. Instead the resurrection of Death
As Festival Season fast approaches and gossip turns to line ups, just remember that the early bird catches the worm and those bands that are opening up such events deserve some attention. After all, it’s an honour to be selected to get any party started! One such event is Amplified Festival, returning after a leave
“It is a circle, there is a plan, dead skin will atrophy itself to start again. Look closely at the open wound, see past what covers the surface, Underneath chaotic catastrophe, creation takes stage. Its all been saved, with exception for the right parts. When will we be new skin?” Metal Heads of a certain
In our weekly journey across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom Underground Metal scene in what we like to call The Black Map, it’s been a little while since we mentioned a band from deepest darkest Wales. So righting that wrong, it’s time we spoke about Copehill Down, a five piece that love
First of the month and “A pinch and a pinch for the first of the month and no returns back” is uttered followed by “A kick in the d*** for being so quick” wherever you are. Kids and adults alike joining in the stupid game and coffee getting spilled in the process. It doesn’t help
“Tell me Mr Anderson. What good is a phone call if you’re unable to speak?“. The scene from the original Matrix movie in which Keanu Reeves mouth disappears in the interrogation room moments before he’s bugged is coincidentally the image depicted by the name that Bath Summerset outfit eyesnomouth have taken as their own. A
Travelling from Glasgow to Norwich for today’s entry on our Black Map of the UK Metal Underground scene that provides an introduction to some of the lesser lights of heaven, bands you may not have heard of before and that could be your next favourite thing, we meet Luke Fowler, Karl Morse, David Lawrence, Flynn
