Creating songs which tackle themes including trauma and domestic violence by channelling cult horror and science fiction films, Halloran have been making a name for themselves with intense, introspective and brutally honest material with which they pull no punches. Hailing from Reading in the United Kingdom, the bands reputation is for the kind of incendiary
Burn baby burn, disco inferno. While the United Kingdom is either enjoying or enduring a heatwave, depending on your point of view, Mercury’s Well are preparing for this years incarnation of Summer Bash. Their annual Hawaiian themed Beach Party has reached a milestone eighth year this year and so no less than ten bands will
If you haven’t heard, Nu-Metalcore outfit Paleface Swiss played not one but two sets at Welcome To Rockville. While they were there, vocalist Marc “Zelli” Zellweger and new drummer Luigi Paraventi joined the host with the most Craig Reynolds for a conversation that would become the latest episode of The Downbeat Podcast. So if you
Burning with Luciferian hunger and baptized in nuclear horror, Hoc est Bellum came to exist in 2022. Pushing into Extreme Metal territory, the trio have created a savage blend of grinding, bestial Black Death chaos, channeling a sound that is raw, primitive and devastatingly direct. Their 2023 demo was a warning of the shape of
Having released six albums and toured Finland, Central Europe, Japan and China over the past twenty five odd years, you could forgive Melodic Death Metal act Noumena if they wanted to take a break. However inspired by sharing stages with bands like Insomnium, Beast in Black and Moonsorrow to name but a few, they’re currently
In August 2022 we enjoyed the thrill of a nautical-themed first-person horror experience as Eaten By Sharks have us Technical Death Metal with the apex predators of the ocean in album “Eradication”. Now they return with follow up “The Undertow Of Hate” set to arrive on 17th July via CDN Records and while we impatiently
Australian label Wild Things Records have shared a single from Progressive Rock tinged Post Metal act Changing Places in the Fire titled “The Epiphany Tree“. It’s one that will appear on the exile-born, Venezuelan bands self titled debut album which the label will release on 24th July. They’ve described that as a dreamlike journey into
Art Gates Records are warning of a perfect storm is rising from the southern hemisphere as Chilean Extreme Metal act Without The Sun unleash “Kraken” as the third and final advanced preview of their upcoming third album “III“. That will see the warm waters of the blue lagoon on 12th June without any rum being
Weaponizing contrast, Say Grace blur the lines between razor sharp, Technical Deathcore precision and claustrophobic, atmospheric passages that allow the tension to simmer before reaching a crescendo. They warn that there is no room for mercy when the truth is at stake so following the brutality that was the “Art Of Murder” they deliver “False Preacher“,
Adorned by “The Astral Body” (1903) by Sascha Schneider (Der Astralmensch) and inspired by Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s novel “Der Verdacht” (or “The Suspicion”), a new EP from Italian Black Metal masters Kybalion is set to arrive on 5th June via Non Serviam Records. An exploration of themes of absolute power and their psychological consequences – anxiety, guilt
