NEWS: Cancer Bats Vs Bat Sabbath! Summer 2026!

It’s time for Cancer Bats alter ego Bat Sabbath to awaken once more as the Canadian Hardcore Punks play Black Sabbath covers across the United Kingdom around their appearance at next summer’s 2000 Trees festival. The run of shows will take place in July with support bands to be confirmed, shaping up like this:

NEWS: Krateros get ready to Thrash!

Helsinki Finland Progressive Thrash act Krateros have inked a deal in quill and ink before sealing it with wax so Inverse Records can distribute their debut EP “Lost in Translation” on 30th January 2026. Citing influences in Annihilator, Trivium and Exodus the three piece formed in 2023 and have shared first single “Linguicide” so you

NEWS: Hidden Mothers get reimagined by 601!

Friday 21st November at Yellow Arch in Sheffield will find Post-Metal act Hidden Mothers playing a home town show with Din Of Celestial Birds, Pleiades and Baosbeinn in support. Legendary Leeds breakbeat duo 601 will be providing DJ sets between bands, themselves having a new album littered with collaborations throughout on the horizon. In celebration

NEWS: Whitechapel speak of the prisoner…

Ahead of the imminent “Rituals Of Hate Tour” across North America that will find Whitechapel joined by Bodysnatcher, AngelMaker and Disembodied Tyrant from Norfolk to Knoxville, a music video for “Prisoner 666” has surfaced. A track with the kind of groove that put the Deathcore heavy weights on the map, it leaves them needing to thank

Playthrough: “Prepare to Die” from Shadow Of Intent!

What do an Ibanez Iron Label RGRTBB21 guitar, a  Neural DSP Gojira rhythm amp and a Neural DSP Archetype: John Petrucci lead amp have in common? They’re all used by Shadow Of Intent guitarist Chris Wiseman in this fresh playthrough video for “Prepare to Die” from the Symphonic Deathcore brutes summer released album “Imperium Delirium“.

Review: “Blistering Autolysis” by Flayed Disciple

Three years after “A Hell In Living Flesh” scalded the ear canals of everyone in a thirty mile radius of someone listening to it, Somerset England based Death Thrash lovers Flayed Disciple return for another round of unflinching brutality with “Blistering Autolysis“. Recorded at Muddy Road Studios in Somerset, using only vintage gear, no click

Documentary: Annisokay: The Abyss vLog – Chapter Two!

As they’ve got shows penciled in from Saarbrücken to Nottingham starting later this month now seems like a great time for German Metalcore stalwarts Annisokay to give us the second chapter of their Abyss European Tour vLog. Technically they have a new album out later this month too with “Abyss: The Final Chapter” comprising twelve

NEWS: Argus Megere bask in the sunset!

Rumours of a fifth studio album after six years of silence from Romanian Atmospheric Black Metal entity Argus Megere have been substantiated with the arrival of a monumental 17 minute long composition in “Iarba-fiarelor“. The record has been titled “Cerburea apusului” (or “The Sunset’s Glow“) and will see the cold light of day on 10th December