Unlike other festivals we’ve attended where bands don’t start until high noon, Bloodstock Open Air Festival gets going early with bands from 10:30 which is cool because there is no waiting around the be entertained. After yesterday’s overcast and drizzle nonsense, the sun is shining as we emerge from our tents like Ace Ventura from
Canadian Science Fiction Metal innovators Voivod have announced they are preparing to return to European stages in November – as special guests of Opeth. They will be supporting their new album “Synchro Anarchy“, which came out earlier this year worldwide via Century Media and have a single date upon our shores in London. Voivod guitarist
Seven years after it was released in 2015 we return to “The Way of Ashes“, a concept EP from Reading Progressive Death Metal trio Mercury’s Well for a review to set the stage for their upcoming self titled debut album. Recorded and produced by Dean Nelson at Platform Studios, it finds vocalist and guitarist Simon
How do you follow a critically acclaimed masterpiece? That’s the question that Boston Progressive Metal outfit have to answer with “Epigone“, knowing that it’s predecessor in 2019’s “Veil Of Imagination” is considered to be the kind of grandiose and sophisticated affair that you’d need the Sydney Opera House or Royal Albert Hall to have a
Having been forged in the fires of Lelystad Netherlands in 2015, Mask of Insanity spent five years crafting their debut album “Damnation Is Eternal“ in Blackened Melodic Death Metal splendor. When we asked the band about the influences behind the record Gildor van Mourlik (bass, vocals), Vincent Klien (guitars) and Cor Vos (guitars) have us
“Into the flood again, Same old trip it was back then, So I made a big mistake, Try to see it once my way, Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home? Have I gone? Left you here alone”
What can we say about Brighton Progressive Metalcore heroes Architects that we haven’t already? As their tour cycle for “Holy Hell” has come to an end and the band are preparing for the next phase of their career in “For Those That Wish To Exist” which will appear in February 2021, it seems apt that
After a couple of jam sessions in Helsinki Finland in early 2019, guitarist Severi Saarioja and drummer Aaro Koskinen created the axis that would become Omnivortex and were soon joined by Niko Lindman (vocals), Mikko Pylkkö (guitars) and Mikael Reinikka (bass). A shared love of extreme music sees them citing influences in bands like Revocation, Gojira
Founded in Oulu Finland in 2016 by bassist and songwriter Markku Kerosalo to follow the path of Melodic Death Metal with touches of Doom, Slow Fall released their debut EP in 2017 entitled “The First Ones to Fall” however the of progression and evolution of their sound has meant line up changes. Now settled with
As our personal favourite Opeth album “Ghost Reveries” has reached the 15th Anniversary milestone it seems only right that we should celebrate with “The Grand Conjuration“. The Swedish Progressive Death Metallers eighth studio record and their first for Roadrunner Records was produced by Jens Bogren (Sepultura, Between The Buried And Me, Arch Enemy) and saw
