Tag: Slipknot

Review: “Don’t Close Your Eyes” by JumpScare

Founded in November 2015 in Napoli Italy, JumpScare threw their first demo out of the plane just a month later in the form of “Broken Hands”. A pair of EPs and a split with Bormanus and Troy Southgate of HERR fame have brought them to “Don’t Close Your Eyes” their debut full length. Four years

Riff Police! Pull Over! #77: Blood Youth Vs Deftones!

Let’s start with what we know. Sacramento Californian Alternative Metallers Deftones recorded and entire album entitled “Eros” at the The Spot in Los Angeles between April and November 2008 and produced by Terry Date. The album was shelved as the final recorded work of bassist Chi Ling Dai Cheng who following a car accident and

Listmania: 5x Bands For Whom It’s Halloween Every Day!

Critically acclaimed film director and musician Rob Zombie might be saying that Heavy Metal and Horror are “Treated Like They’re Just One Step Above Pornography” (which you can read about here) but we don’t think that we’re actually that bothered. Live and let live. Oh wait. It’s Halloween! Die and let die! Here’s a little

Interview: MSRY talk to Local Distortion!

During the Castlefest Weeknd in Luton, Oxford Hardcore Punks MSRY took a moment to chat to Local Distortion about how their cover of “My Plague” by Slipknot came about with Metal Hammer Magazine and how their love.of Canadian Hardcore Punks Cancer Bats flourished into sharing a stage and Liam Cormier appearing on “Still Breaks My

Vs Tuesday: Two Bands! One Song! Who Wins? FIGHT! Marilyn Manson!

A song by Marilyn Manson also remixed by the then Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison which appears on bands fourth studio album “Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)” in the year 2000, “Fight Song” is the subject of today’s cover clash! As albums go, it’s a scathing attack on the media and mainstream culture as

Review: “Guided” by Confessions of a Traitor

After a pair of EPs in 2014’s “Seasons” and 2016’s “Illuminate”, Londoners Confessions of a Traitor are well known on the UK Underground Metal Scene with a reputation for an impressive live show, something which we witnessed as they performed at the final farewell tour show from Carcer City which was on their stomping ground.

Bootleg: A pair from Metallica in Czech Republic!

…with the news that Metallica frontman James Hetfield will enter rehab for addiction issues earlier this week came the news that their planned Australian and New Zealand tour with Slipknot has been cancelled. So for our friends down under, here’s “Frantic” and “Creeping Death” culled from the bands set in Letnany Praha Czech Republic on

Review: “Gored/New Faces In The Dark” by Loathe

In the first of what looks to be a run of two track singles by different bands appearing via SharpTone Records, genre pioneers Loathe have returned with a couple of fresh tunes to tickle our fancy and keep us talking about them. Make no mistake, the Liverpool natives have paved the way for the likes

Bootleg: Vein in San Diego!

Is this the Hardcore? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a Slipknot, no escape from The Che Cafe. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see. This is San Diego, I need no “Errorzone”. Californian sunshine, Closed Casket Activities. 27th September. Will Putney. Vein. Because I’m easy come, easy go, little high, little