Tag Metalcore
Ah like a nagging child repeatedly asking are we there yet or can I please, go on can I please, metalcore resolutely remains a force within metal and like said nagging child we might want it to shut up or… Continue Reading →
Meaning “true cross” the French band Vera Cruz (yes, we’re not talking about the place, the film, the computer virus, the football club or the canyon here) are a group who wear their music influences as badges of honour. They… Continue Reading →
When receiving self-released albums in for review, it really is a lottery when it comes to what sort of quality you get. Bands vary in what they consider to be a ‘finished article’ in terms of production and songwriting and… Continue Reading →
We’re promised much on this, the second album release by US “progmetal alchemists” The Contortionist. I confess to being sceptical of their claim to “shatter the boundaries of conventional music”. It’s always best to listen to these things, so that’s… Continue Reading →
Do you like metalcore? Yes, then continue reading; No, then you may as well go elsewhere. Wikipedia has the definition of metalcore as a cross between extreme metal and hardcore punk… BOLLOCKS is my response to that as metalcore is… Continue Reading →
Solace and Stable are self-proclaimed “progressive metalcore bruisers” from Kansas City. What I heard after a deliberate start was an explosion into brutal death growls with incongruous colourful technicality going on in the background. There’s a touch of Suspyre there,… Continue Reading →
These Sasquatch-obsessed metalheads are based in sunny Los Angeles rather than the wilds of some wintry country and that is, indeed, rather baffling. Only a mug would believe these songs were written on the beach and their PR blurb leads… Continue Reading →
This is In This Moment’s fourth album release. I heard the first two and particularly liked the first one “Beautiful Tragedy” (2007), which was in a feisty, gothic pop-metalcore style. I thought “The Dream”, while having a good range and… Continue Reading →
Damn this is such an annoying album, just like all the others from Shadows Fall. I started playing it with an air of elitism thinking “yeah used to quite enjoy them when I was younger but now I have totally… Continue Reading →
I’ve been following Danish band Mnemic since their first album “Mechanical Spin Phenomena” in 2003. This and its successor “The Audio Injected Sound” (2004) showed signs of a fresh face in the world of modern, futuristic metal or metalcore or… Continue Reading →
This unusual and mysterious band seem to have courted controversy since their inception, espousing a highly unique and slightly impenetrable philosophy in which God, nature, animals, good and evil seem to be the same thing (although I may have misunderstood… Continue Reading →