Interview: Cynic talk Progressive Metal on The Garza Podcast!

Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza has made a habit of sitting down in person with everyone who’s anyone over the past #214 episodes of The Garza Podcast and becoming the host with the most. This time out his guest is Cynic mastermind Paul Masvidal, a vocalist and guitarist of legendary status in Progressive Metal. Everything

Review: “Coast II” by Sardonic Allegiance

Sardonic Allegiance was formed as a studio project back in 2009 by multi-instrumentalist Vasco “Triest” Lub and drummer Rick “Griendhakker” Lieffering (Fenris, The Darkest Red) with a vision for creating Black Metal in an epic way through the incorporation of melody and symphonic elements. Based in Rotterdam, Netherlands they released their first EP “Germania Inferior”

5 Albums I Want To Be Buried With #17: Godeater!

After a little time off for bad behavior we’ve brought back our “5 Albums I Want To Be Buried With” feature for another run in 2026! Last time out, back in October, saw Tribe Of Ghosts guitarist and vocalist Adam Sedgwick run through his choices as the band prepared to unleash new EP “Open Wounds”

Bootleg: Hellripper at Dynamo Metal Fest 2025!

Including such classics as “The Hanging Tree“, “All Hail The Goat” and “Headless Angels” a pro-shot full set from Blackened Speed Metal masters Hellripper at Dynamo Metal Fest 2025 has surfaced online. They’ve been announced as playing Motorcultor Festival in August with a European tour preceding that in April. That will take them from Aalst

NEWS: Obsidian Mind bring Metalcore to the Masses!

Having shared stages with the likes of Attila, Norma Jean and Escape The Fate off the back of their 2022 self titled record, Obsidian Mind have continued to raise awareness for the state of Metalcore in Cincinnati, Ohio with a run of standalone singles. The latest of those is one called “Mirage” which might mean they.think

Bootleg: Boltcutter in Lakewood Ohio!

They call themselves “Pacific Northwest Idiotic Homicidal Brutal Slamming Chainbreak Chuggery” but they’re releasing an album titled “Still Broke“? That can only be the infamous Boltcutter! They were caught on camera on 26th November at The Roxy at Mahall’s in Lakewood Ohio with multi-track audio recorded live and mixed for video by the legendary Leo

Review: “Coast I” by Sardonic Allegiance

After fifteen years wandering the back streets of Rotterdam, Dutch Black Metal duo Sardonic Allegiance returned with their first new material since 2010’s “Germania Inferior” in April 2025. Seven songs for seven deadly sins, spilling over the poison chalice of forty five minutes have been split into two parts, one for April 2025 one for

NEWS: Anomic call for an end to the plague!

Having given us their debut EP “Opacity” as a duo, Death Thrash purveyors Anomic have grown into a five piece for live shows, beating the living daylights out of their instruments in 2025 across the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Footage from those shows has been pieced together by Nicky van der Schaaf to create a music

NEWS. Graufar enter the gates of the Necropolis!

Made up of live footage from nine different shows, including their performance at Wacken Open Air Festival, Austrian Blackened Death Metal force  Graufar have shared a music video for “Via Necropolis“, a cut which serves as the title track of their next album. Taking their name from an old German word for the color “grey”

NEWS: From Ashes Reborn divide and conquer!

Eight long years after their well received debut album “Existence Exiled“, German Melodic Death Metal maestro’s From Ashes Reborn have been resurrected from hiatus. What made that album so good was that they had interwoven into its fabric moments of Technical Death and Black Metal in formulating their sound, something which they have continued with