Someone needs to start a petition to get Carcosa guitarist Andrew Baena to go full band for some of his jucier instrumental cover offerings. Who wouldn’t want to hear Carcosa go full shotgun blast on this rendition of “Lethargica” from Meshuggah? Baena did his damage with an Ibanez FTM33 8 string in F standard tuning
When it comes down to it, it could almost be considered a crime against humanity that a collective like VILDHJARTA have been allowed to leave in excess of 2920 days between releases but the quality of their 2011 debut “Måsstaden” and 2013 EP “Thousands Of Evils” have been more than enough to keep the home
A long conceived idea that finally came the summer of 2020, the self titled EP from Catercorner was recorded at The Box at GemJamHQ, London as an entirely DIY and solo entity from start to finish, the sole work of James Sherwin, a Southcoast Metal scene veteran with multi-instrumentalist skills. A release that has a
Originally starting out life as a solo project of guitarist and clean-vocalist Hassan Ali, Neon Empire evolved into a four piece Electronic Metalcore band with the addition of unclean vocalist John Collard, bassist Tom Ambrose and the rarest of things in drummer Veronika Švecová. August 2019 saw the line up complete and the Dublin based
The continuing announcements of gigs at the tail end of 2021 is beginning to amuse us, especially with some of the stranger combinations that have appeared. The Godfathers of DJent Meshuggah will be upon our shores for a quartet of dates in December with of all people Zeal & Ardor in tow. Given the recent
Perhaps the strangest of choices for Ozzfest in 2002 were the Godfathers of DJent Meshuggah who arguably stood out like a sore thumb when taking the stage with the likes of Mushroomhead, Ill Nino and Glassjaw but perhaps the crazy carnival train was as much about the celebration of Metal in various forms. This full
Seven years is a long time between records but life has a strange habit of getting in the way sometime and that’s no different for multi-instrumentalist and producer Pedro Mau (ex-Kneeldown, Wells Valley). His debut solo record “Interstice” appeared back in 2013 with the vocal and lyrical contributions of his Wells Valley colleague and Concealment
What does this freshly released pro-shot full set from the forefathers of DJent have in common with Lionheart? Both the upcoming Lionheart live album and this set from Meshuggah were captured at Summer Breeze Festival in Germany in 2019. The Swedish heavyweights are currently working on a new album, a highly anticipated follow up to
“I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she’s gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure… evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back… she was alive! Look at
Having just completed their tour run for 2016’s “Violent Sleep Of Reason” before lockdown, drummer Tomas Haake discusses with Beez from Knotfest how Meshuggah have been writing and recording in recent years and how the current global situation hasn’t stopped the band progressing in this latest interview in the Mosh Talks series. A late 2021
