Tag: Century Media

NEWS: At The Gates prepare for Nightmares!

More than three decades after they started, the legendary Gothenburg Sweden Death Metallers At The Gates are set to return with “The Nightmare Of Being” on 2nd July via Century Media. In choosing which cut to throw to the bloodhounds at their doors first, they have gone for the opening cut, “Spectre of Extinction” which

NEWS: Witherfall travel to Boston!

The growing collection of cover songs that the Great Plague years have seen is being joined by another moment of splendor. Witherfall are releasing a special cover of the illustrious “foreplay/long time”, entitled “Long Time (long version)” by Boston. The song has been available as acoustic version on “Curse of Autumn” as well as slightly

Riff Police! Pull Over! #154: Bewitcher Vs WASP!

Getting scorned by the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) alongside household names like Motley Crue, Mercyful Fate and Venom in the 80’s never stopped Blackie Lawless or his band WASP but it did inspire them to write a song about them in “Harder Faster” from their 1987 record “Live…In the Raw”. Rather than go head

NEWS: BALA premier fourth single from upcoming album!

After the already releasing a holy trinity of critically acclaimed singles “Agitar“, “Hoy No” and “X“, Spanish powerhouse duo BALA have served us a fourth cut in a song called “Mi Orden” with an animated video by Josep Caballero of RSV Visual Studio. Hailing from Galicia Spain, the band whose name means “Bullet” in their native tongue

Documentary: Crazy Tour Stories with Cryptosis!

God how we’ve missed shows over the time of the Great Plague. The live streams have been great but it’s just not the same as a packed sweaty club headbanging to your favourite bands, pint of beer in hand and horns up. We’ve also missed the regular fix of Digital Tour Bus but fortunately they

Playthrough: “Conjuring The Egoist” from Cryptosis!

If you missed “Bionic Swarm“, the debut album from Dutch forward-thinking explorers of the Extreme Metal cosmos Cryptosis then it is one we highly recommend. Before you push play on that, here’s a guitar playthrough from vocalist and guitarist Laurens Houvast for one of the albums stand out cuts in “Conjuring The Egoist“. It comes

Review: “LV-426” by Hideous Divinity

Deciding on James Cameron’s “Aliens” as a theme for their latest offering, Italian Technical Death Metal force Hideous Divinity have chosen to concentrate on the story of Rebecca ‘Newt’ Jorden, the 6-year old girl rescued on the alien infested planetoid LV-426 by Ellen Ripley in the film. As the listener, we live the story from her point

Playthrough: “King Ov Deception” from Lorna Shore!

Transcending Deathcore with their third album and major label debut for Century Media “Immortal“, New Jersey powerhouse Lorna Shore have done their best to separate themselves from the tornado of controversies that surrounded it and to their credit come out stronger for it. An absolutely stunning piece of uncompromising work, it has seen drummer Austin

NEWS: Bewitcher celebrate with “Electric Phantoms”!

On the day of the release of their third journey to hell and back “Cursed Be Thy Kingdom“, an album of Heavy Speed Metal birthed in the fires of rock ‘n roll, Portland Oregon based Bewitcher have chosen the unholy confession of “Electric Phantoms” for the red carpet music video treatment. Recorded at The Captain’s