We’re going to go a bit early with this one, but who cares? 31st August 2024 will be be the 20th Anniversary of “Leviathan” from American Progressive Metal giants Mastodon, a concept album which took the band from zero to hero in less than 60 seconds. Loosely based on the 1851 novel “Moby-Dick” by Herman
It might not be an anniversary but with American Technical Death Metal act Nile preparing a new album and an extensive European tour trek for this summer it seems appropriate to delve into the archives for a classic from them. For the purpose we choose “Sacrifice Unto Sebek” from “Annihilation Of The Wicked“. A 2005
If you had told us back in 2003 that after the tragic passing of vocalist Johnny Morrow, that Nottingham Sludge Metal legends Iron Monkey would be making anything new at any point we’d have laughed. But 2017 saw original guitarist Jim Rushby put together a three piece and unleash “9-13” via Relapse Records and now,
Gritty Sludge Doom is the order of the day and it’s served hot by Nottingham skull bashers Iron Monkey with a second single in “Switch Off” from their first album in seven years “Spleen And Goad”. A 5th April drop via Relapse Records is on the tarot cards with pre-orders including vinyl available here. Be
It feels like there is a familiar pattern emerging as seven years after their last triumphant return, Nottingham’s Iron Monkey are set to return once more. They’ve unveiled “Misanthropizer” as the first single from a new album titled “Spleen And Goad” which is set for 5th April with Relapse Records set to distribute. Pre-orders including very
Why have a regular meal when you can go large and have a desert? Relapse Records have taken that approach with American Technical Death Metal outfit Revocation and re-issued four of the bands records on vinyl and compact disc as well as offering classic album t-shirts. Those records are 2009’s “Existence Is Futile“, 2011’s “Chaos
“Coming from behind, My headlights drawing near, A sadist in the night, A psychopath on wheels, With Toolbox at my side, And duct tape in my hands, My rope around her neck, I drag her screaming, then I Throw them, in the…”
As the fires of EP “Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge” are still burning, American Black Metal warriors Wolves In The Throne Room have announced a European headlining tour trek for this spring with support from Gaerea and Mortiferum. As well as taking in all the usual stops the bands will also appear at several festivals on
An unholy trinity of barbed wire cuts from the set of Dying Fetus at this past summers incarnation of Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany have surfaced in “Subject to a Bearing“, “Grotesque Impalement” and “Compultion for Cruelty” as the American Death Metal veterans continue to watch the World burn with new album “Make Them
Twenty years of “Stop at Nothing“, lyrical themes and their new album “Make Them Beg for Death” are all topics of conversation as John Gallagher from Maryland Death Metal masters Dying Fetus joins Heavy New York for another classic interview. It has of course been six long years since their last record “Wrong One to
