Given the quality of the material from Darko, a side project of Chelsea Grin vocalist Tom Barber and Emmure drummer Josh Miller, what are the chances of it turning into a full time entity in 2021 and Alex Kohler rejoining his former band? For their part, Darko have given us “Donna” two weeks after the
Probably the toughest category of our listmania awards series each year has to be the albums. These pages have had a daily review during the year of the Great Plague of 2020 and there have even been some occasions when there have been more than one. So that’s 365 plus records to consider, which is
The debut EP “Dethmask” from the side project of Emmure drummer Josh Miller and Chelsea Grin frontman Tom Barber wasn’t heavy enough for you then their upcoming debut full length promises to be a reign of fire. Darko have laid down the gauntlet with gore filled introspective lyrics of “Pale Tongue“, mixed by Matt Thomas.
There is making your debut and then making your debut with style and with a solo written and recorded by Within Destruction Guitarist Howard Fang and a guest vocal appearance from former Lorna Shore and current Chelsea Grin and Darko vocalist Tom Barber, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales Deathcore collective Wretched Dawn have very much
There was a chance that “Immortal” would be shelved while Lorna Shore hunted down a new vocalist but fortunately they didn’t and the results speak for themselves. Drummer Austin Archey provides all the rhythmic power requited to ignite a fire underneath the rest of the band and has been filmed by Brett Miller for Sick
Strange and supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore. Yokai is a combination of the characters 妖 (yō) — attractive, bewitching, calamity — and 怪 (kai) — mystery, wonder). That is the name that this Japanese themed Deathcore collective from Detroit Michigan have chosen for themselves. Formed in late 2018 by guitarist and programmer Jordan Lawrence and
As if a supergroup comprising Emmure drummer Josh Miller and Chelsea Grin frontman Tom Barber wasn’t enough of a heavyweight partnership, the pair have got Ben Duerr of Shadow Of Intent fame to add guest vocals to a new single “Pretenders“. The band have been working on a debut album since their EP dropped.
Hailing from Rutland Vermont and giving us some spine tingling chills and brutal breakdowns with “Open Me“, their debut full length album in Avante Garde Deathcore style are No Soul. After reviewing their skull crushing and yet sensitive nine track opus, we spoke to them and asked a few burning questions having digested the album
After a pair of critically acclaimed albums in 2014’s “The Wreckage Of Stars” and it’s follow up in 2016’s “Selves We Cannot Forgive“, Reading Pennsylvanian Progressive Death Metallers Black Crown Initiate can be forgiven for taking their time over getting to their third studio record “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape“, which finds them with a
Whatevercore?! What the hell is that?! It’s a amalgamation of Metalcore, Hardcore and Deathcore styles which Louisville, Kentucky Monsters Until The Dead Walk are calling their signature style. Following up their 2018 EP “Dead Walking” with a full length album for 2020 going by the name “No Music, Just Violence” and bringing on board a
