Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat. It will soon be snowing. Then there will be Christmas jumper day at the 9-5 daily grind to raise a few quid for charity and perhaps even a mince pie tasting competition, if you’re lucky. But while you’re doing all that, what are your favourite musicians up
For Canadian guitarist guitarist Geoff Waye (Artach, Category VI) when it comes to his project Traditional Heavy Metal meets Thrash Metal project Triskelyon it’s not a case of what you know but who. He’s joined by a wealth of co-conspirators for the the undertaking with the fourth album “Maelstrom Of Chaos” now everywhere that’s good courtesy
“March of the Gods” creators King Kraken have announced a six date co-headlining run with Traditional Heavy Metal act and Rabidfest veterans Fury put together by Grumpy Clown Booking Agency. The run will will see them playing Friday and Saturday shows across three weekends across April and May and breaks down as follows:
Inspired by the novel “The Book of Nod” by Sam Chupp and Andrew Greenberg, Genus Ordinis Dei have written a concept album titled “The Land East of Eden” about the obscure path of Caine who lead him to become the first vampire. An obscure tragedy without redemption, an endless fall into the darkness of sin,
As it transpires Buried In Smoke Festival on Saturday 28th March at The Bullingdon in Oxford will double as a hometown album launch party for “Buried Under The Weight Of Reason” by Desert Storm. The Bloodstock survivors will be joined by Winnebago Deal, SEXTODECIMO, Slabdragger, GURT, Alunah, Froglord, Indica Blues and Antler Velvet at the event
A second prize pair in “Death by Hanging” and “Eternal Night” have emerged from the archive crypt of Black Metal purveyors Ancestor Of Kaos. As with the last two, these are also from a show that took place in Miami Florida on 17th February 2024 as the Cuban Americans love nothing more than getting rowdy.
Pro-shot at Globe Iron in Cleveland Ohio on 21st November, a full set from Deathcore skull splitters Bodysnatcher has landed with a thump. It finds them on the Rituals of Hate Tour with Whitechapel, Angelmaker and Disembodied Tyrant with Steven Dionne recording and providing the raw tracks for Leo Sypniewski to mix and master for video.
Joining the recent tidal wave of tour announcements for 2026, Post-Metal… whisper it… supergroup… SUMAC, who feature in their ranks members of such house hold names as Isis, Baptists, Russian Circles, Botch, These Arms Are Snakes, Mamiffer and Old Man Gloom have explained that they will be raiding Europe in April. Its the final show
Celebrating the arrival of their new EP “Atonement” via Art Gates Records, Lost In Existence have shared a music video for “From The Outside“. Recorded in early 2024 at Absolomb Studios in Seville where it was also produced, mixed and mastered by Enrique Navarrete (Hunger, Beheading Samsara, Tassma) the record marks a style shift from
Engineered by Jason Brooks, mixed by Taylor Young (Nails, Kruelty, God’s Hate) at The Pit Recording Studio, mastered by Brad Boatright (Obituary, Internal Bleeding, Creeping Death) at Audiosiege and complemented by artwork from Stein Hansen, “Witness The Power” is a second burnt offering of Thrashing violence from Denial Of Life. Hailing from Tacoma Washington the four
