This time out Clawfinger guitarist Bård Torstensen is the man under the FBI style interrogation spotlight with Australians Sense Music Media, the Swedish Rap Metal veterans having just released album “Before We All Die“. The discussion is about everything from the very start of their politically charged and socially aware sound to their fond memories
It may have taken them nineteen long years to get a new album but now it’s here the Stockholm Sweden based pioneering force in European Industrial tinged Rap-Metal that are Clawfinger are beating a drum about it and rightly so. They’ve shared a music video for the title track “Before We All Die” from the record
A third advanced single from the first studio album from Swedish-Norwegian rap-metal trailblazers Clawfinger in 18 years has landed in “Big Brother“. Another explosive taste of their long awaited comeback album “Before We All Die“, the new single arrives with a razor-edged video clip and all the pent-up fury you’d expect from a band that helped
Steadily growing from an ember to a bright flame, over the past seven years Southampton Progressive Metalcore quartet Theorist have been busy making a name for themselves. The fruits of their labour started coming to fruition in 2023 which saw them unveil a debut EP in “Perception” which features their biggest single “Paralysed“. A track
A first album in eighteen years from Swedish Rap Metal pioneers Clawfinger is set for a 20th February arrival via Perception, an imprint label under the Reigning Phoenix Music banner. Titled “Before We All Die” and mastered by Jens Bogren (Sepultura, Amorphis, At The Gates) at Fascination Street, it follows a summer European Festival run
The better part of 14 months after their last single “Black Smoke” and the announcement that the band had no plans for an album or live shows and instead would simply release singles from time to time, Bern Switzerland based Metalcore merchants Breakdown Of Sanity have teamed up with Impericon to release “Collapse“. It is
There can be no question that the return with promises of singles from time to time of Swiss Metalcore merchants Breakdown Of Sanity earlier this month served as a timely reminder of just how good the band actually are. Still having 114k monthly listeners on Spotify alone despite playing their last live show in December
London & Reading based Arcaeon have been on our *ahem* Radar for a while now. Having first witnessed their impressive live show in 2017 when they joined the recently retired and much loved Carcer City and Perception (now known as Keepsake) in an impressive line-up for the return of The Arusha Accord prior to the
It’s been just 7 days since we left Newark Showgrounds after another triumphant incarnation of Tech-Fest, thanks to Simon Garrod and the team. The Festival that inspired the creation of Metal Noise back in August 2017 has completed its 8th year and remains the King of the Underground Metal Scene, the UK’s equivalent of Euroblast.
Day #2 of UK Tech-Fest has plenty of treats in store including some very new bands. Originally called Perception and now incorporating large doses of Post-hardcore melodic elements to create a bastardised version of their older sound, Keepsake [7/10] get the Fireball Whiskey stage off to a sweaty start. It’s an emotive set that is
