Trivium guitarist and vocalist Matt Heafy has been relatively quiet by his prolific standards of late while the Florida quintet are writing the follow up to their critically acclaimed album “The Sin And The Sentence“. But today he’s back on the Twitch stream and has put out this acoustic version of “Fugue” from “Ember To Inferno“.
It’s not often that an up and coming band gets praise from one of their all time heroes. So when Megadeth founder Dave Mustaine championed Hazzerd alongside Power Trip as a promising thrash hopefuls on a Gimme Radio feature, people took note. He also included Hazzerd on his personal list of record collection picks around
If you think that Sometimes We Make Music (often abbreviated to SWMM) have a strange band name, then it isn’t without good reason. Ivar Oftedal (lead guitar and composing), Danny Valle Johannessen (vocals and lyrics), Terje Martinussen (drums), Zlatko Kusmic (rhythm guitar) and Alejandro Roberto Sanhueza (bass) started SWMM in the spring of 2013 as a
Having landed on Netflix recently, The Witcher has become the new Game Of Thrones overnight. A host of Metal covers of the theme song “Toss A Coin To Your Witcher” appearing left, right and centre in recent days. Not only has YouTube guitar teacher Marty Schwartz got in on the act, but also Trivium guitarist
25th November 2019 saw Ice Nine Kills American Nightmare tour stop at The Theatre for Living Arts in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Culled from their set on th night, Mosh Pit TV have thrown us “Thank God It’s Friday“, “Communion Of The Cursed” and of course “The American Nightmare“. The deluxe version of “The Silver Scream” complete
As “The Sin And The Sentence” and debut from new drummer Alex Bent (ex-Battlecross) has passed the two year mark, surely 2020 will see Roadrunner Records knocking on Matt Heafy’s door, cap in hand for a new album? Vainstream have shared a cut of “The Heart From The Hate” from the 2019 incarnation of the
Taking an interesting route, Louder have started a new series on the Lords of the Riff with a group of Masters in their own right including Trivium axe man Matt Heafy, Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society and Vio-Lence guitarist Phil Demmel (ex-Machine Head) all involved. The curtain raiser is a mighty fine read on
A Melodic Death Metal quartet from West Virginia, Deathless have skipped past the “let’s do an EP or some singles and fathom out our sound” phase and dived head long into traffic with their full debut album. Forming in May 2018 and releasing their first single a year later in “Into Depravity”, drummer Shane Polk,
We’ve had some submissions from all over the Globe from unsigned bands requesting reviews but this one is about as far flung as s they come! An Indonesian Heavy Metal band formed in 2017, Therodynamite dropped their debut “Entropy In The Mind” in September before playing October Noise Festival in Makassar Indonesia headlined by Silent
Finnish Crossover Thrashers TakaLaiton were founded in September 2014 in Lappeenranta, South Karelia Finland, a quartet comprising Juho Mantykivi on Rhythm guitar & Vocals, Janne Raunio on Bass & 2nd Vocals, Pasi Hyrkkanen on lead guitar and Joona Juntunen on Drums with a reputation for pure aggression and speed with catchy melodies as well as
