Category: Features

17 January 2021 / Features

Derelict Paradise – Exclusive Interview with Coffin Apartment

Portland trio, Coffin Apartment, released one of the best debut albums of the last few years in 2020 but might also be one of the strangest propositions in the extreme…

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10 January 2021 / Features

Chained in the Valley of Hades: Exclusive Interview with The Troops of Doom

Founding Sepultura guitarist, Jairo Guedz, returned in 2020 with his new band The Troops of Doom. The group have one aim – to play the primitive and nasty death metal…

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7 January 2021 / Features

Response to our review of Utilitarian’s Stay Angry EP

Our recent review of the latest EP from Sheffield extreme metal anarchists, Utilitarian, questioned the political philosophy of the band and criticised their worldview. Vocalist, Jon Crowder, would like to…

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31 December 2020 / Album of the Year

SBR Top 40 Albums of 2020

2020 has been another fantastic year for innovative music with the emergence of exciting new bands and the return of many legends. Prog metal and thrash produced some of the…

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31 December 2020 / 777

SBR Top 7 Musicians of 2020

At Scream Blast Repeat we make no secret of our admiration for virtuoso musicianship and supreme song-writing ability. Music is a language in itself and can often reach a level…

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30 December 2020 / 777

SBR Top 7 Guitarists of 2020

This list would be a lot easier to compile if we based our choices on the simple question of who can sweep-pick and string-skip with their eyes closed. Most sub-genres…

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29 December 2020 / 777

SBR Top 7 Comeback Artists of 2020

Every year produces a few surprises. Our favourite artists announce a new album; a minority ditch their roots and go in a new direction; others continue to ruin their legacy…

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28 December 2020 / 777

SBR Top 7 Male Vocalists of 2020

Nowadays the death metal growl and distorted rasp of black metal are respected styles of performance art. Fry screams, yarls and head voice histrionics are part of our musical vocabulary…

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28 December 2020 / 777

SBR Top 7 Female Vocalists of 2020

Female vocalists in metal were rare until Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow smashed through the glass ceiling in 2000 and showed the world how to roar like the best of her…

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27 December 2020 / 777

Top 7 Influences – Ancient Thrones

Canada is the epicentre of progressive extreme metal right now with Ysgaroth, Fuck the Facts and Without Mercy producing excellent albums this year. But perhaps the most important band to…

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