Tag Nuclear Blast
A typhoon of black metal, sludge, post metal and hardcore, France’s Celeste are unwavering in the enormity of their sound. Having already laid the foundations for experimentation with the ambitious mixture of genres they’ve managed to hybrid together, they’ve spent… Continue Reading →
Fit For An Autopsy, are one of those bands that, for me, have been lumped in with what seems like a plethora of cookie cutter bands, bubbling away in the stew that is the Deathcore scene. All syncopated double bass… Continue Reading →
This shall be the sixth album by the German quartet and first on Nuclear Blast. Formed 20 years ago by vocalist and guitarist Steffen Kummerer, the band has always pushed the envelope of technical death metal with progressive tendencies. Returning… Continue Reading →
Do you ever have those bands at your disposal that are the meat and potatoes of a genre? I don’t really mean generic as such, more so just basic really. Well, for me when it comes to Brutal Death Metal… Continue Reading →
“Millions die in vain”, goes the lyric on “Blinded” off Hypocrisy’s “Into the Abyss” album (2000). This could apply now. The solid sounds signal menace. The deeply invasive metal tones of Peter Tätgren and his Hypocrisy mates kept me going… Continue Reading →
It’s been seven long years since ‘Blood In, Blood Out’ came out, & I’m trying to decide to say “it was worth the wait” or that “it didn’t come soon enough” since both are equally valid, but things being what… Continue Reading →
Ah, the much-anticipated return of modern heavyweights Khemmis has finally occurred. This is the fourth album by the Colorado heavy hitters since their first release back in 2015. Now operating as a three piece, their previous albums have all been… Continue Reading →
In 2019 Northtale released their debut, and a very accomplished debut it was too. Perfectly combining the classic European Power Metal stylings of Helloween, Strotovarius and Hammerfall. The striking similarity that the band had to those three bands however was… Continue Reading →
Three albums in for Beast In Black and I reckon the whole Beast In Black vs Battle Beast thing can be easily laid to rest. Since guitarist Anton Kabanen left the Battle Beat ranks back in 2015, he took with… Continue Reading →
It is hard not to talk about Ghost Bath without mentioning a couple of things that gave them some low level “notoriety”. First off, the China hoax – when the band released their debut “Funeral” on Chinese label Pest Productions in 2014 there was… Continue Reading →
I just realised when I started listening to this that the last time I saw these guys was 2 years ago at the London Palladium, and it was one of the last gigs I went to, as there were only… Continue Reading →
When you list the classic Death Metal acts of old you probably think Morbid Angel, Deicide, Obituary, Death etc. Yet there is a sort of sub level to that, Possessed, Immolation, and our subject for today the mighty Massacre! I… Continue Reading →