After the mixed bag of “Temper Temper“, Welsh Metallers Bullet For My Valentine had expressed the desire to return to something heavier with their 2015 fifth studio album “Venom“. The departure of bassist Jay James prior to the recording left guitarist and vocalist Matt Tuck to play the bass parts, despite James replacement Jamie Mathias
These days credited as a solo project of Swedish singer songwriter Tobias Forge, who performs under the names Papa Emeritus and Cardinal Copia, Ghost recorded their third studio album “Meliora” back in 2015 with the title from the Latin for “the pursuit of something better“. It won a pair of Grammy Awards for both it’s lead
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. For us, “Master Of Puppets” is the finest Metallica album around. The third studio record from the Big Four titans and tragically the last with bassist Cliff Burton who died in a bus accident in Sweden during the tour cycle. Recorded in Copenhagen Denmark with Flemming
Using a copy of Gabriel Ferrier’s ‘Chaperon Rouge‘, depicting the instantly recognisable tale of Little Red Riding Hood, with a girl standing beside a Wolf bearing its teeth that has that mild threat to it makes for a fitting cover for any Melodic Death Metal album. It was chosen by Australian quintet Be’lakor, to grace “Of
Originally formed as Godzilla in 1996 and changing their name five years later to Gojira, brothers Joe Duplantier (lead vocals, guitar) and Mario Duplantier (drums, backing vocals), guitarist Christian Andreu, and bassist Jean-Michel Labadie are well known to most. They hail from the city of Bayonne in France and are known for Environmental themed lyrics while
Back in 2015 A Night In Texas unleashed a Technical Deathcore album in “The God Delusion” which is a horror film soundtrack under a different name with vocalist Rheese Peters screaming and screeching like demonic hell spawn. A thirty minute edge of the seat affair loaded with blast beats from a well drilled percussion section
August 2005 saw Swedish Progressive Death Metallers Opeth make their major label debut with Roadrunner Records. They did so with their eighth studio album “Ghost Reveries“, produced by Jens Bogren (Sepultura, God Forbid, At The Gates) and saw just one promotional single in “The Grand Conjuration“. For the music video for the track saw it cut
Taking the title from “Cloud Atlas“, a novel by David Mitchell and with lyrics that are loosely based on the concept of the Samsara Cycle of Death and rebirth, Progressive Metallers Monuments recorded their sophomore album “The Amanuensis” in 2013 for a 2014 release via Century Media. Splitting the recording between a trio of locations
Founded in 1987 in Miami Florida by guitarist and vocalist Paul Masvidal and drummer Sean Reinert, Cynic incorporated elements of Progressive and Alternative Rock into Extreme Metal and after four demos in four years they signed to Roadrunner Records in 1991 and began work on the debut album. Both Masvidal and Reinert were part of
Released in 1996, the ninth studio album “Murder Ballads” from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds received critical acclaim with Cave heralded as giving the performance of his life throughout the recording. Joined by no less than sixteen guest musicians while performing duets with PJ Harvey and Kylie Minogue, it might surprise you to know
