Featuring guest appearances from cellist Jo Quail and Troy Sanders of Mastodon, a new album titled “Setting Fire To The Sky” from London Sludge Metal act URNE is set for 30th January via Spinefarm Records. Produced by Justin Hill (Sikth, Hacktivist, The Five Hundred) it will be their last as a trio with second guitarist
Emerging from our tents like something being birthed on a David Attenborough documentary it’s safe to say it’s f***ing hot on Sunday morning in Catton Park. After yesterday’s phenomenal line up there are sore heads a plenty as well as queues for the facilities and everyone’s on a bit of a go slow. Machine Head
Returning to the tried, tested and true, it comes as no surprise that Nashville Tennessee Nu-Metalcore act Orthodox chose Randy LeBoeuf (Jesus Piece, Kublai Khan, Dying Wish) to produce their fourth album “A Door Left Open”. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it as they say and given how well their Century Media debut “Learning To Dissolve”
We’re going to go a bit early with this one, but who cares? 31st August 2024 will be be the 20th Anniversary of “Leviathan” from American Progressive Metal giants Mastodon, a concept album which took the band from zero to hero in less than 60 seconds. Loosely based on the 1851 novel “Moby-Dick” by Herman
Four years and one Godzilla sized cover since their debut EP “Cry Havoc“, the inevitable return of Gutlocker is finally upon us having been recorded with producer Lewis Johns (Employed To Serve, Conjurer, Funeral For A Friend), the choice to work with him seemingly fuelled by the bands desire to write something not only different
You’d have to go a few thousand miles to find someone who didn’t know who AC/DC were or at least be able to recognise one of their cuts but when it came to their seventh seminal album there must have been some nerves with Brian Johnson replacing the larger than life Bon Scott after his
The Indian summer continues at The Ranch Production House as we’ve reached day #5 of 6 for the recording of “Forever Nothing” by Weaponry, a place where Employed To Serve, Conjurer and Rolo Tomassi have all recorded recent material. Producer Daly George (Creeper, Milk Teeth, Boston Manor) sits at the production desk while vocalist and guitarist
There aren’t going to be many members of humanity over a certain age who don’t know who ZZ Top are. The Texas trio have a distinctive Blues Rock sound and a Beard and Stetson image has kept them in beers since 1969, with fifteen studio albums, four live albums and 44 singles to their collective
How often do we use the words “highly anticipated” and “supergroup” in the current era of Metal? It has been six long years since 2014’s self titled debut from Killer Be Killed, a band which features Greg Puciato on vocals and guitars, formerly of The Dillinger Escape Plan and currently in The Black Queen, Max
“Spit out the Venom and watch as it flows. Speak in the Tongues of Devils without Souls. Hope for the Sunrise, then you will know. The Future is written which Way will you go?”
