Hailing from Trondheim in Norway and proving that the area has many more styles played by the bands in the area than the obvious ones people would expect The Hate Colony describe themselves as ‘metalcoreish.’ The biog also mentions that… Continue Reading →
18 years in the business, Sparzanza are a fine example of heavy and dark Swedish groove metal. Still going strong, the band recently released “Circle”, the band’s seventh full length recording and in their home country, it entered the charts… Continue Reading →
The 6th album by the Bavarian sextet contains the same line-up as the album they released at the beginning of last year and is in a similar vein. And sadly for me Daniel Schmidle’s keyboards still feel overused, especially when… Continue Reading →
You don’t need much time for this two-track blast from Zeit. Five minutes will do it. Zeit are from Italy and arose from the ashes of As The Sun who released a very good and lively album called “Event Horizon”… Continue Reading →
There’s been a few changes in the Deadlock camp which means that there has been a certain amount of pressure on the German melodic groovers of late. First they lost original male vocalist Johannes Prem meaning that bassist John Gahlert… Continue Reading →
Formed from the ashes of As I Lay Dying after singer Tim Lambesis’ incarceration for ordering a hit on his wife (sadly not for making terrible music!), the remaining members of the band regrouped with a new vocalist to continue… Continue Reading →
Hailing from a farm somewhere in Switzerland, Voice of Ruin have had to stop tending to the cows, put down their shovels and pitchforks and pick up their instruments once again to record their newest offering ‘Morning Wood’, because, as… Continue Reading →
You have probably heard the name Killer Be Killed being thrown around recently, but for those of you who are not up to date I will fill you in. Killer Be killed is a new super-group comprised of a rather… Continue Reading →
Over the years, Athens has gave the world many things – it is cited as the birthplace of modern democracy, it was home to the great thinkers Plato and Aristotle and it is often referred to as the ‘cradle of… Continue Reading →
An interesting intro to the second album release from this Athens-based band gives a suggestion of something djenty-progressive with electro touches. Such intros can be indicative of what follows or meaningless. Here it’s indicative, at least for the following two… Continue Reading →
I doubt I was the only person who was rather surprised to hear that singer Candice Clot had decided to call it a day and leave Marseille based heavyweights Eths. The band had not long since released excellent album III… Continue Reading →
If you like your metal to be modern, heavy, energetic, melodic and djenty, this is for you. Vortice come from Barcelona and are releasing their third album with “Host”. They were presented to me as a band who play thrash,… Continue Reading →