Founded by guitarist and songwriter Robin Staps in Berlin Germany back in the year 2000, The Ocean (sometimes referred to as The Ocean Collective) and a Progressive Metal quintet who draw influences from other sub genres into their sound, including Sludge, Post, Avant-garde and Extreme Metal. They signed with Metal Blade Records in 2005 and
1999 saw the release of the fourth studio record “Colony” from Gothenburg Sweden Melodic Death Metal quintet In Flames, an album which is the first of an eleven year run for what many fans consider the bands classic lineup. Alongside Dark Tranquillity and At The Gates, the Swedes were pioneers in the genre and helped
The first Australian Thrash act to tour internationally, Mortal Sin were one of the lesser lights of heaven during their run between 1985 and 2012. Hailing from Sydney, New South Wales, they were part of a small but well respected Speed Thrash scene with Slaughter Lord the other real band of note. As you might
There can’t be many people on Planet Metal who don’t know who Linkin Park are. Back in October 2000 they unveiled their debut record “Hybrid Theory“, which spawned four huge singles in “One Step Closer“, “In the End“, “Crawling” and “Papercut“, all of which helped deliver the Californian Nu-Metal act to the Global stage. Lyrically
The 20th Anniversary of the sophomore album from Slipknot seems a highly appropriate time to talk about the record that takes its name from the bands home state of “Iowa“. Produced by Slipknot and Ross Robinson (Limp Bizkit, KoRn, Sepultura) and widely considered to be heavier, darker and more technical than their major label debut
Having been forged in the fires of Lelystad Netherlands in 2015, Mask of Insanity spent five years crafting their debut album “Damnation Is Eternal“ in Blackened Melodic Death Metal splendor. When we asked the band about the influences behind the record Gildor van Mourlik (bass, vocals), Vincent Klien (guitars) and Cor Vos (guitars) have us
Dedicated to the memory Michael Kotouzas, “No Hope, No Light…Only Death” is the debut full length album from Greek Black Metallers Isolert. Released in 2016 following a three track demo “Isolated Soul” which appeared a year prior when the band were more of a solo project of multi instrumentalist Jason Kasioptas, it sees Dødsferd vocalist
The third studio album from Finnish Extreme Metallers Impaled Nazarene was recorded in July 1994 at Tico Tico studios in Kemi Finland with producer Ahti Kortelainen and was the last to feature both Luttinen brothers and to this day Mika Luttinen remains the sole remaining original member of the group. For most of their history, Impaled
Following the success of 1996’s breakthrough album “Antichrist Superstar” the pressure was very much on for Marilyn Manson to create a worthy successor. The decision to leave behind some of the abrasive and aggressive Industrial edge and to build in a bit more Glam Rock might have seemed on paper at least to be a
Released on 19th March 1987, five years after the tragic death of Randy Rhoads in a plane crash in Florida, “Tribute” is a live album that celebrates the life of the Ozzy Osbourne guitarist who was in the band between 1979 and 1982, writing “Blizzard of Ozz” in 1981 and the follow up “Diary of a
