Taken from the recent Metal Hammer Magazine tribute to Avenged Sevenfold, our very own Harbinger have streamed their cover of “Burn It Down” from 2005’s “City Of Evil” for those who haven’t heard it. It’s a choice cut that they’re also giving away free via bandcamp. It doesn’t get much better than that!
Metal Hammer Magazine subscribers will have woken up to issue 310 this morning in the mail. Rather surprisingly, Avenged Sevenfold grace the cover, but it’s the “Hail To The Kings” Avenged Sevenfold Tribute album that is the big gain this time out! It’s celebration of up and coming UK underground metal bands as much as
Huddersfield thrashers Evile, who won a coveted Metal Hammer Magazine Golden God award in 2010 have announced the return of original lead guitarist Ol Drake! After a period of relative quiet, the band will headline Manorfest at the Keighley Victoria Hall on 12th May. Evile’s last album was 2013’s “Skull” which is available via Century Media.
The Mike James Rock Show caught up with Trivium, Venom Prison & Power Trip during the UK dates of their 7 week, 34 show Metal Hammer Magazine sponsored tour of Europe. We reviewed the final show of the tour at London’s Brixton Academy.
It’s a blisteringly hot Saturday in April that sees the Metal Hammer Sponsored “The Sin And The Sentence” tour arrive for it’s final show in London. The venue? A sold out Brixton Academy that has 4,921 Metal heads descending on the capital. The closing night of a nearly 7 week European run has concluded with
That’s right folks. It’s that time of year again. Time to click here and cast your vote in Metal Hammer Magazine’s Golden Gods Awards for 2018! The annual event will hosted by Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed fame at London’s Indigo2 on 11th June. The nominees are; Best New Band: Conjurer Lovebites Sleep Token Loathe Visigoth Best Underground
Epica, Oceans of Slumber & Myrkur will be touring our shores together in April! The trio of female fronted Metal bands will be performing for the first time together on the Metal Hammer sponsored run; 06: Rock City, Nottingham 07: O2 ABC, Glasgow 08: O2 Academy, Bristol 10: Tivoli, Dublin 12: O2 Ritz, Manchester 13:
So one of our favourite publications Metal Hammer have released their top 100 albums of 2017. That’s right. One Hundred. Which is epic. So how many of the epic list have we actually heard…? Twelve! 12! 100) Hey Colossus – The Guillotine 99) Rebirth Of Nefast – Tabernaculum 98) Bokassa – Divide & Conquer 97)
So it’s not actually called the “Golden Gods” awards outside of the UK but… it sounds better. The Metal Hammer Award Winners were announced as follows, with videos below; Metal Anthem Award: Ghost – “Square Hammer” Up & Coming Award: Night Demon Best Debut Album Award: Dool – “Here Now, There Then” Best German Band Award: Sodom Best Album Award: Heaven
