NEWS: The Crown announce farewell tour in 2026!

Legendary Swedish Death Medal quintet The Crown have announced their intention to hang up their boots at the end of 2026 after thirty five years in the game. Before that happens the band have announced a farewell tour that includes a number of festival stops to celebrate everything they have achieved in career spanning sets.

Review: “Here Comes The Void” by Buried Souls

Sitting cross legged in the center of the Bermuda Triangle between Hardcore, Death and Sludge Metal are Lausanne Switzerland based duo Buried Souls. Influenced by Black Metal they have been delivering aggressive, cold and relentlessly mechanical sonic abrasions since 2010, submitting two albums and three extended plays in evidence to the court. Their last audio

Live Review: Reading Rising 2025 (Sunday)!

Day two of this years expanded format for Reading Rising gets underway at the sensible time of 15:00, allowing some of those who had a little too much fun last night with American Metalcore heroes Still Remains some extra time in bed. Don’t be fooled however, there are still 10 bands to shoehorn in before

Bootleg: Heavensgate in Lakewood Ohio!

Pro-shot at The Roxy at Mahall’s in Lakewood Ohio on 25th October with multi track audio mixed and mastered for video by the legendary Leo Sypniewski, a full set including “Oblivion“, “Violent Joy” and “Chemical Heaven” has emerged from Heavensgate. The Melbourne Australians remain trapped in a realm between Gloom Metal, Modern Metalcore and Nu-Metalcore

NEWS: Fathom Farewell seek the forsaken?

Produced, mixed, mastered and engineered by Chris Piquette (Trophy Wives, Riviera) at No Boundaries Studios, a new single from American Metalcore heroes Fathom Farewell has arrived in “Forsaken Creatures“. As you might expect it cites the bands most recent addition in guitarist Christopher Prendergast (ex-Frantic Endeavor, Sunsinger) as the main composer as they follow channel

Documentary: Fear Factory on Gear Masters!

The latest episode of the Digital Tour Bus series Gear Masters finds new Fear Factory vocalist Milo Silvestro giving us a run down of his live equipment during the bands North American “Demanufacture” anniversary tour. It was filmed on 17th September at The WC Social Club in Chicago and appears just a few days after

NEWS: The Zenith Passage premier “Fleshbound Reliquary”!

…with five shows left of their North American tour with Entheos, Fallujah and Tracheotomy,  Progressive Death Metal heroes The Zenith Passage have let Metal Blade Records uncloak a new single in “Fleshbound Reliquary”. Mixed and mastered by Dave Otero (Cattle Decapitation, Allegaeon, Archspire) it serves as the band‘s first new material since their 2023 critically

NEWS: 96 Bitter Beings Vs United Kingdom in 2026!

It seems CKY related bands simply can’t let the residents of Skull Island rest with their former vocalist and guitarist Deron Miller bringing 96 Bitter Beings to our shores for no less than nine February shows. The news appears on the eve of the bands “Synergy Restored Winter Tour 2025” in North America that runs

NEWS: Domhain share “My Tomb Beneath The Tide”!

Northern Irish Atmospheric Post-Black Metal band Domhain have unveiled the first track from their upcoming debut full length album “In Perfect Stillness”, a record pencilled in for a 20th February release via These Hands Melt. “My Tomb Beneath The Tide” is a dramatic and deeply evocative composition with a guest vocal appearance from Sarah Fielding