Wrecking necks since 1980, New Jersey Thrash overlords Overkill have shared their second new cut in three years with one called “The Surgeon” which follows the live debut in December at Ruhrpott Metal Meeting Festival in Germany another called “Wicked Place“. Both will appear on the bands twentieth studio album “Scorched” which will drop via
A third of eight new cuts from “Heimdal” by Extreme Blackened Viking Progressive Metal act Enslaved has been revealed by Nuclear Blast in “Forest Dweller“. Said to be both a departure and communion with roots forged over the past three decades in Norway’s Black Metal scene, the album is their sixteenth in all and named
Having witnessed them create possibly the biggest circle pit for an opening band ever seen at the Hammersmith Apollo this past weekend when they set the pace for Heaven Shall Burn and Trivium, Alex Taylor and Charlie Thorpe from Malevolence join Stray From The Path drummer Craig Reynolds for another episode of The Downbeat Podcast.
…with new album “Foregone” less than a month away on 10th February via Nuclear Blast, Swedish Melodic Death Metal pioneers In Flames have chosen to give us one called “Meet Your Maker“. Perhaps bid to put to bed the idea of a rivalry between them and former members united in The Halo Effect, this one
Continuing the wealth of interviews that have been trickle released by Bloodstock over the past four months is a conversation between interviewer extraordinare Oran O’Beirne and Malevolence men Alex Taylor and Wilkie Robinson. Skipping over the bands upcoming run with Trivium and Heaven Shall Burn, the topics of conversation instead focus on their plans for
As “Heimdal” approaches on 3rd March 2023 via Nuclear Blast, Extreme Blackened Viking Progressive Metal act Enslaved have entrusted us with a third single from the album. This one is actually taken from the bonus version of the album and is titled “Caravans to the Outer Worlds” (Live from The Otherworldly Big Band Experience). A peach
People will argue about whether they consider the likes of Despised Icon and Carnifex Deathcore pioneers until the end of time but we don’t care. We’ve got our favourites and we know where we stand. Filmed at the Willem Twee Den Bosch Netherlands stop of Carnifex run with Chelsea Grin, Varials, Bodysnatcher and The Covalence
Sheffield Shredders Malevolence will soon be crossing some of Europe’s great divides as they open a co-headlining tour that will find Trivium and Heaven Shall Burn alternating in different countries. Back in the summer they were one of the many highlights of Bloodstock Open Air Festival with pro-shot footage of “Higher Place” from the Sophie
Is it a coincidence that Bloodstock Open Air Festival have decided to air “Self Supremacy” from Sheffield Shredders Malevolence on the day that frontman Alex Taylor’s guest vocal appearance on the new Lionheart album “Welcome To The West Coast III” appeared? This one is from the Sophie Lancaster main stage ahead of that European Tour
