Having purposefully avoided hitting up our fair capital city and mining it for talent, it’s time we took The Black Map to London and gave a mention to Renounced. Having played shows with Stray From The Path last year, the band are about to embark on Harms Way‘s European run with Sanction that will include
Guildford in Surrey is about as close to being a city as you can get without being a city. In 2015, the census recorded 146,000 residence – with Saxon roots, a University and Cathedral, you have everything you need. So as we continue our journey across the Black Map of the UK Underground Metal Scene,
Continuing our journey across the black map of the UK underground metal scene, we come to the fair city of Coventry. Perhaps the birth place of legendary figure, St. George “The Dragon Slayer”, patron Saint of England but more aptly the place that Chuck Berry recorded his No. 1 single “My Ding-a-ling”, doing so at
Distortion. Check. Feedback and buzzing amps. Check. Downtuned guitars. Check. Salford Sludge Doom Metallers Tronald are one of the filthiest bands around at the moment. Their Satanic Priest ritual video for single “Obelisk Ov Hash” brings to mind Witch burnings while the having the sense of the theatrical and old school horror films. 2017’s self-titled
As a side piece to our Black Map of the UK Underground Metal Scene, here is a playlist of 10 UK Underground Metal bands that are well worth investigating. Seeing as it’s Monday. And it’s time to head home from UK Tech-Fest. Which is all a bit sh*t. Starting off with one of the undoubted
Week #16 of our journey across The Black Map of the UK Underground Metal Scene takes us to Derby. The home of Download Festival, famous for giving us Sociology, Lara Croft and the first ever water works system is also the home of DJent infused progressive tech-metal (or as The Derby Evening Telegraph described them
Continuing our journey across The Black Map of the UK Underground Metal scene, we head from Glasgow down to leafy Oxford. Unsigned Tech-Influenced Metalcore crew Perception have been busy cutting down everything in their path since 2012 and supporting anyone and everyone at shows the length and breadth of our green and pleasant land at
Our journey around the Black Map of the UK Underground Metal scene returns to the North of England this week. Sharing stages with the likes of Lotus Eater, Oasiah and From Sorrow To Serenity, Newcastle’s Deathcore quintet Starve To Survive have been making a ruckus since 2014. Released in December of 2016, their debut EP “Life//Loss”
15 years after the death of original frontman Johnny Morrow in 2002, Nottingham’s legendary sludge metallers Iron Monkey returned to the fray in 2017 as a trio. Orignally formed in 1994 from members of other bands as a side project, the band recorded and released a self titled EP at saw re-issue via Earache Records
Continuing our journey across The Black Map of the UK Underground Metal scene, we arrive from Birmingham to Liverpool and Metalcore tinged Tech-Metallers Carcer City. Current release “Infinite//Unknown” is out now via Attila’s Stay Sick Recordings and the bands third album following 2009’s debut “The Life We Have Chosen” and 2012’s “The Road Journals”. We
