NEWS: When We Meet announce “The Killing Game”!

Having spent the past five years writing and producing music together, Matt Adair and Stu McDonald have announced a debut album waiting in the wings titled “The Killing Game” from their project When We Meet with the title track. The duo cite influences in Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, and While She Sleeps, blending modern

NEWS: Archives Vs Loveletter in April!

Belfast big riff merchants Archives have shouted from the rooftops as they have lined up three shows around their performance Modern Era Metal Fest in April with Loveletter. There are further special guests to be announced as the band take their sophomore album “No Bliss In Ignorance” on the road once more!

Documentary: Belushi Speed Ball at The Gathering of the Juggalos!

Filmed and Edited by Criket Camacho, a re-edited version of the behind the scenes featurette that saw Louisville, Kentucky Crossover Thrash crew Belushi Speed Ball play The Gathering of the Juggalos in Thornville Ohio last summer has surfaced online. Running on themes from cartoons, movies and humour with their 2023 album “Stellkira” they’re a hilarious

NEWS: Kittie Vs Europe all summer long! (UPDATED!)

Seemingly not content with sharing that remix of “Spit XXV” this past weekend, Canadian Metal force Kittie have added a run of club shows to fit around their previously announced festival appearances in Europe this summer. There are some serious distances involved in some of these performances so we wish them safe travels!

Review: “Necrotizing Omnipotence” by Crypt Watcher

After walking into the recording studio like it was a confessional and admitting to several crimes against the dead, the dying and the damned with debut EP “Under The Cemetery“, multi instrumentalist and vocalist Taylor Hoffman returns with “Necrotizing Omnipotence“. The second instalment from his Crypt Watcher project finds him emerging from the Hellish abyss

Live Review: Jinjer w/Textures and Unprocessed at O2 Forum Kentish Town London!

Tonight brings the European “Duél” Tour 2026 to London with the resurrected Textures and resurgent Unprocessed supporting Ukraine’s finest export Jinjer. The Progressive Metalcore headliners have come a long way since we first saw them live in 2017 at a sold out Camden Underworld off the back of their “King Of Everything” album, growing exponentially

Playthrough: “Not My War” from Post Pulse!

The Post Pulse rehearsal space remains a strictly Black Flag free zone as the band who united both former and current members of Code Unknown, Shining, The Man-Eating Tree, As the Sun Falls and Dying Reverie to name but a few, continue the preparations for the grand unveiling of their third album. A 29th May release

NEWS: Survivalist tour to Call Of The Wild Festival!

…with one date rumoured to be London still to be confirmed, Belfast heavy hitters Survivalist have announced a tour that will take them to the mighty Call Of The Wild Festival at the end of May. They keep saying “big things are coming” but having completed an unholy trinity of shows supporting Thy Art Is

NEWS: Sonus Mortis return this summer!

After outlining a dystopian journey of humanity’s downfall, rooted in themes of technological dominance, environmental collapse, and societal degradation over a trilogy of albums (Collapse The Mountain, Synapse The Hivemind, Of Red Barren Earth) a release date of 11th July 2026 has been set for a ninth Sonus Mortis album. Once agai mixed and mastered by

NEWS: Ditheist are living evil?

It seems that the beast has awoken from hibernation once more with Chicago Death Metal force Ditheist unveiling their second new song of the past twelve months in “Evil To Live“. Prior to the arrival of single “Duality Ov Evil” last February they had kept us waiting a decade after a split with Malas for