Metal Noise

“Get your boating shoes on, we’re drinking Red Stripe on the canal” ~ Bobby Mandala’s Midnight Elite

An exploration of the story of Dracula, war and occult themes over abrasive guitars, pummeling perc and unforgiving vocals from Dragsholm is what they’re calling Jersey Devil Bestial Black Metal. Following 2024 EP “Sorrow Hexen” the band are continuing their partnership with Pain Gore Death Productions for debut full length album “From The Bloodlines Of Bram“,

Scarlet Doom pioneers Messa will be dragging  melancholic heavy metal outfit The Night Eternal across Europe in autumn, moments after the later see their album “Cold Velvet” being distributed via Metal Blade Records at the end of August. Could it be a match made in heaven?

Massachusetts Hardcore scene junkies Holder have announced they’ll be in Europe as special guests alongside Grunge-gaze lovers Soul Blind to open for Post-Hardcore crew Static Dress, a band whose sophomore album “Injury Episode” is just a few days old. Love Rarely will be opening for the bands in the United Kingdom only.

Following the news that Finnish Deathcore collective Kneel Before The Death will make their festival debut appearances at Tuska Festival, Nummirock and Saarihelvetti, the band have given the world another glimpse of their forthcoming sophomore album. That comes in the form of “The Weight Of Truth”, a new single unveiled by label Ranka Kustannus that has

Inverse Records have shared the debut single of Finnish Death Metal newcomers Monarch of Hate in “There Goes the Sun”. All is not as it seems however as the project is a partnership between a pair of veteran musicians. Tomi Tilli, known in the melodic death metal scene as the singer and guitarist of Superdeathflame

When The Atrocity Exhibit guitarist James Caygill and The Infernal Sea vocalist Dean Lettice discovered their mutual admiration for the anarchic, angry sludge of bands like Iron Monkey and Eyehategod they always knew they would do a project together. Joined by Oneiros bassist John Hunter and Shrykull drummer Kez Whelan their initial ideas were evolved into Tomb

Produced by Chris Fielding (Electric Wizard, Fen, Winterfylleth) and featuring guest appearances from Serena Cherry of Svalbard and Noctule fame as well as Sammy Urwin of Employed To Serve, a new album from Witchsorrow titled “The Devil And All His Works‘” is slated for 3rd July via Church Road Records. From that the four piece have

Belgian Hardcore crew Nasty have announced a European tour to take them to this years Stabruch Festival with Crawlspace and Pintglass in tow. The run will have a wide variety of opening bands who include Premonition, Words Of Concrete, Harm/Shelter, Eternal Enemy, Once And For All, Give Em Blood, Xoxo, Dismembered, Whatever It Takes, Ghetto

London Heavy Metal machine Metasoma have announced that their long awaited EP “Core” will land on 2nd August, more than a year after first single “Downfall“. While that tune was produced by Filip Halucha (Behemoth, Vader) at Heinrich House Studio, the remainder are produced by Dawid Konrad Rydz, the record being described as a pessimistic hellscape,