Rewinding the cassette tape all the way back to 1993 and the third studio album “Powertrippin’” from Scottish Metallers The Almighty is an absolute must for this weeks throwback to the tracks of days gone by. The record saw the band support Iron Maiden across Europe and also spawned a Japanese only released live EP
Following the news of the return of the much missed Endast with a new song “Standby to Get Some” and more on the way, it seems like a fitting time to go back and check out “The Craving” from the Metalcore quartets 2006 album “Odds Against Tomorrow“, complete with a music video directed by Bryan
As our personal favourite Opeth album “Ghost Reveries” has reached the 15th Anniversary milestone it seems only right that we should celebrate with “The Grand Conjuration“. The Swedish Progressive Death Metallers eighth studio record and their first for Roadrunner Records was produced by Jens Bogren (Sepultura, Between The Buried And Me, Arch Enemy) and saw
Masterminded by vocalist and bassist Steev Esquivel, Skinlab first came over our Metal Horizon in 1997 with debut album “Bound, Gagged And Blindfolded“. A Groove Metal quartet, often underrated and too quickly compared with Machine Head due to both bands hailing from the Bay Area, they have worked their way through numerous line up changes and
As 14th September 1989 marked the inception of Nottingham Industrial Metallers Pitchshifter, we’ve decided to take a trip down the yellow brick road otherwise known as memory for a Skull Crusher coffee sponsored throwback. We’re going all the way back to their debut 7″ called “Death Industrial” for the brutal “Bastardiser“. Back then the band
This year marks 25 years of “NOLA” from supergroup Down and a couple of weeks back, the band got together and played a live streamed set to an online audience. Essentially the bands debut album was written over a five year period by Pantera vocalist Philip H Anselmo and Pepper Keenan from Corrosion of Conformity before
Formed in the aftermath of his exit from Spineshank and fueled by a desire to take a new musical direction, Silent Civilian saw Jonny Santos completely reinvent himself from being the Industrial Metal vocalist to being the vocalist and guitarist of a Metalcore band. He also transformed himself, both physically and vocally, at times barely
They might have only managed a single album before implosion and partial rebirth as Dirty Americans but “Sons of the Pioneers” managed to appear on Roadrunner Records and get The Workhorse Movement a UK run with Pitchshifter. The Detroit Michigan residents brought to the table something unique with an eclectic mix of riffs and vocal
Rewinding the tape back to 2003 and the project from husband and wife duo Mick Murphy and Tarrie B otherwise known as My Ruin for today’s throwback offering is an absolute pleasure. Label issues dogged the bands career and so they spent the majority of it DIY in order to control all aspects of the
New Orleans Louisiana Sludge Metal Legends Crowbar are much loved in these parts with not only stonewall classics like “Odd Fellows Rest” and “Equilibrium” seen regularly on our playlist, but also newer material like “Sever The Wicked Hand“. Today however, we’re going to set the dial for 2001 and the bands groundbreaking seventh studio record
