Widely recognised as the heaviest and most aggressive album from Los Angeles Californian Nu-Metal quartet Coal Chamber, “Dark Days” was produced by Ross Hogarth and appeared via Roadrunner Records in May 2002. It was the album that sowed the seeds for vocalist Dez Fafara’s next project, Groove Metallers Devildriver after tensions within the band that boiled
As Between The Buried And Me will be upon our shores in October for an “Evening With” styled show featuring a pair of sets, we figured it was about time we turned our attention to our favourite album of their back catalogue. You maybe surprised that it’s not the seminal “Colors” but for us, we
It’s time for us to say a few things that might be considered controversial. First off for us, while “Dig” was without a doubt the groundbreaking single from Peoria Illinois quartet Mudvayne, it was their complexities, their use of odd time signatures and tapping sequences and the playing that appeared on their first pair of
In the year 2000, Stampin’ Ground delivered an Earth shattering album that crossed over Groove Metal and Hardcore in “Carved From Empty Words” that Ultimately ended up with the Cheltenham band fronted by Adam Frakes-Sime appearing on the main stage at Download Festival in 2003. Sadly calling it a day a year later but returning
Some bands are destined to burn out and others to fade away. Originally called The Six and opening for Slipknot in their home town of Des Moines Iowa, Downthesun inked a deal with Slipknot’s Maggot Recordings label after their original label London Sire Records folded. The band were active between 1999 and 2003 with a
“Our Lady Of Annihilation” by Brooklyn New York Metallic Hardcore crew Most Precious Blood from 2003 that took everyone by surprise. They had formed a couple of years earlier from the ashes of another band called Indecision and were based around the axe wielding duo of Rachel Rosen and Justin Brannan. The bands second album
New Jersey Melodic Hardcore and perhaps one of the founders of the Metalcore sound crew Nora are actually best known for being the band of Good Fight Music label owner Carl Severson. Originally starting his own label Ferret Music having gone to high school with Trustkill owner and president Josh Grabelle, Severson sold up to
Manchester Industrial Metallers Kill II This let us have their third album “Trinity” back in 2001. The band seemed to be on the rise having supported Megadeth on their “Cryptic Writings” tour in 1997 and gaining critical acclaim from Metal Hammer Magazine for their sophomore album “Deviate”, which appeared a year later. They ended up
Having formed in 1998, it was June 2003 before Buffalo New York Hardcore Punks Everytime I Die dropped their sophomore album “Hot Damn!” via Ferret Music. Recorded at Trax East Studios in South River, New Jersey with Eric Rachel in the production chair, it famously outsold the bands debut full length “Last Night In Town”
Something of a lazy throwback for a Monday morning but why not? When Thrash legends and arguably the fifth member of the “big four” of Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax otherwise know as Exodus launched 2004’s “Tempo of the Damned” upon us it was a sonic assault happily received. The bands first album since their
