Documentary: “Dark Reign” episode #2 with No Kings Allowed!

Subtitled “The Stolen Tour“, the second installment of the documentary around the making of EP “Dark Reign” from No Kings Allowed is now streaming in cyberspace. Diving into their struggles, creativity and the making of the music, it also finds the Netherlands–Belgium outfit unmasked for the first time. Deathcore, Metalcore and cinematic layers? Chaos and

Playthrough: “Thoughts On Life… And Death” from Cemetery!

Filmed by Sergej Dukart at Walzwerk Tonstudio during the recording sessions of “Thoughts On Life… And Death” by German Death Metal act Cemetery, a drum playthrough for the album title track from Tobias Kasper is a thing of beauty. The record is an exploration of fear, manipulation, psychological isolation and the final struggle for dignity

NEWS: Age Of Ruin welcome the wanderer!

If you haven’t already had the pleasure then let us tell you that in “Nothingman“, Age Of Ruin have given us a portrait in Metalcore that is an absolute pleasure. The band have shared a fourth music video cut from that in “The Traveller” which explore the odd time signatures and harmonic dissonance in ways

NEWS: Soulgrind swim in the dead sea?

If you missed the news, Legendary Finnish Metal band Soulgrind will be letting their tenth album “Ad Pulchram Mortem” (from the Latin “To a beautiful death“) be distributed via Inverse Records on an as yet undisclosed date in 2026. Founded in 1992, the band who are known primarily for their blend of Gothic, Thrash and

NEWS: Gaerea realise they’re hellbound?

It may not be arriving in full until 20th March 2026 but that hasn’t stopped Century Media from sharing a second statement piece in “Hellbound” from the new Gaerea album “Loss” in music video format. The Post-Metal collective are promising something which fuses the aesthetics of Extreme Metal to the openness of Post-Rock while complementing

NEWS: Pintglass Vs Kublai Khan in “Stella FC”!

Taking Sunday league football to a whole new level, Stella Artois loving Geezer Core crew Pintglass have got Matt Honeycutt from Kublai Khan to drop some knowledge on their new single “Stella FC“. The band, who feature in their ranks Ben Mason of Bound In Fear and Angus Roberton of Break Fifty, will be dropping a self

Review: “Nothingman” by Age of Ruin

They may have only released the half an hour of power that is their fourth studio album “Thieves” in February of 2023 but by the October of that very same year Washington DC natives Age Of Ruin were already working on follow up “Nothingman“. In what can only be considered a labour of love, the

NEWS: Grove Street admit to self sabotage…

Another new album on the horizon is one from  Southampton Crossover Thrash quintet Grove Street, which sits complete awaiting the summer of 2026. The cycle for the unnamed and undated affair begins with new single “Self-Sabotage” a track which features Seth Gilmore (Fugitive, Skourge, Power Trip) and will no doubt take pride of place in

NEWS: The Losts search for a hill to die upon?

Featuring a guest vocal performance from Valérie Chantraine of Penumbra on “Here Comes Tragedy”, a third album from French dark and melodic heavy metal band The Losts is set to appear before the year is out. Titled “Venom Within“, the record will be released via Finnish record label Inverse Records on 19 December 2025 with

NEWS: Krushor ask “War? What is it good for?”

Coming out swinging from Oulu, Finland with a razor sharp Groove Thrash Metal blend are Krushor. They’ve chosen a tale of War in “Shockwave” as the first single from their debut EP “Taste of Hatred” which is slated for a 9th January 2026 release via Inverse Records. No Adobe products were harmed in the making