A band comprised of musicians with a wealth of experience in other bands who know the highs and lows of the underground scene and have felt every frustration, Ephemera consider themselves a Yorkshire based Hardcore band and have trodden the boards with everyone from Last Hounds and Hell Can Wait to Thrown Into Exile since the
It seems unreal that “Euthanasia” is the eleventh studio album from Long Island New York heavy hitters Stray From The Path, even if this is actually only the third with the their current line up. Indeed, only guitarist Thomas Williams remains from the first line up that started out in 2001 before vocalist Andrew “Drew
If you’re anything like us then from time to time, perhaps at the recommendation of a friend, an article on your favourite webzine or magazine, you’ll put on a record you’ve never heard before with zero expectations… and then it slaps you in the face and screams “wake up!” at the top of it’s lungs
Let’s be honest for a moment. Reading Festival hasn’t been a Festival that has had Metal acts for a very long time so the announcement of Rage Against The Machine as a headliner was an odd one, especially seeing as there were no similar acts to play before them. The Festival organizers must have paid
After a decade of abstinence, the return of Browbeat in 2019 with “Remove The Control” was very much the rising of the phoenix from the ashes that the Modena Italians had started the band with in early 1998. The intention remained very much the same with that album has it had with the bands previous
“This is your God, We have rendered obsolete, Your church and idols, Will burn in one fatal sweep In the ashes of this purgatory, Return the freedom of self-determination” Another trip to the capital of this green and pleasant land will be our last for a while given the wealth of talent that remains yet
A year after “No Saviours No Kings” from London Metallic Hardcore Homewreckers Viatorem have returned with a two track EP that adds their cover of “Bulls On Parade” by Rage Against The Machine with new song “Exalt“. Mixed and Mastered at Sphynx Studios by Wynter Prior (Wounded Not Dead) the EP is available over at
The party starts with a bit of Rage Against The Machine courtesy of London powerhouse Metallic Hardcore quintet Viatorem who have covered a classic in “Bulls On Parade” and taken the guitars all the way down to Drop G with a little help from Wynter Prior (Wounded Not Dead) who mixed mastered at Sphynx Studios.
The influence of Mudvayne shouldn’t be underestimated when it comes to Technicality and during in their early records a certain amount of Progressive nature. Born out of the Nu-Metal era and featuring largely introspective lyrics from vocalist Chad Gray, they also made use of polyrhythmic sounds with guitarist Greg Tribbett and bassist Ryan Martine producing
Arguably the Cowboy’s from Hell’s darkest release lyrically was 1994’s “Far Beyond Driven” with vocalist Philip H Anselmo suffering from a pair of ruptured discs in has back and degenerative disc disease and numbing the pain with alcohol, heroin and prescription medication and perhaps the cover art which depicts the act of trephination is a
