NEWS: Defences love lithium?

Mixed by Christoph Wieczorek (Annisokay, Caskets, Stellvris) at Sawdust Recordings and conjoined to a music video filmed by Oli Duncanson (TheCityIsOurs, Confessions Of A Traitor, Shields) a new track dubbed “Lithium Kiss” has arrived from British Alternative Metal outfit Defences. It comes shortly after the first anniversary of their album “Shadowlight” with the band enjoying

NEWS: Warmarshal bring out the dead!

It has been seven long years since EP “To Regain Lost Glory” by Indian Extreme Metal force Warmarshal caught our attention with its Death Thrash flavours so after last year’s seemingly stand alone single “Shell Shocked” isn’t it high time they gave us some new material?

Playthrough: “Glory Is Reserved For The Dead” by Thraxas!

A Drum playthrough of “Glory Is Reserved For The Dead” by Thraxas drummer Izak Easterbrook has surfaced leaving us wondering how exactly he would be able to continue his career gracing the drum stool if it wasn’t for endorsements by Rech Cymbals, Chaos Drums, Roodiment Hardware and Czarcie Kopyto. That’s because if you’ve heard album “Violent

Playthrough: “Two” by Vertex!

If you haven’t had the pleasure of “The Purest Light” by French Progressive Metal outfit Vertex over the past ten months then there has never been a better place than here or a better time than now. To give you an idea of what it’s all about the band have shared a one take vocal

Review: “Ostracism” by Orbstruct

“Ostracism was meant to be a manifesto of our solitude, which we wanted to offer as a gift and the best chance for each person to truly know themselves. But as we dove deeper into our own minds, we came across images we weren’t ready for. Under pressure from outside forces we couldn’t control, we

Rabidfest 2025: Breaking Down The Bands #16: Wall!

They say time flies when you’re having fun, one minute you’re at Catton Park in Derbyshire enjoying all that Bloodstock has to offer in the blazing summer sun, the next it’s just thirty one days until November and Oxford’s finest Metal Weekender Rabidfest. Where does the time go? Earning cold hard cash to spend on

NEWS: Mental Cruelty enter the realm of the dead!

Featuring a guest vocal appearance from David Simonich of Signs Of The Swarm, a new single in “Helheim” has emerged from German Blackened Deathcore collective Mental Cruelty via Century Media. Its a tale of the underworld realm that the dead go to in Norse mythology and appears on the eve of a Canadian and North American

Playthrough: “Condemned to Vascular Famine” from Defeated Sanity!

As the band prepare to head out on a North American tour in November, Defeated Sanity give us the opportunity to witness drummer Lille Gruber smash his way through arguably the most punishing song on their critically acclaimed seventh album “Chronicles of Lunacy“. It’s one that the Brutal Technical Death Metal outfit like to call

NEWS: Amiensus collapse the mountain?

Named after North America’s highest peak, new composition “The Peak of Denali” marks the return of vocalist Chela Rhea Harper to Progressive Black Metal act Amiensus after a nine year leave of absence. It’s the bands third single of 2025, continuing a prolific streak that saw them unveil not one but two albums last year