Misha Mansoor is a man that never stops creating music. With six Periphery albums under his belt and 108 of his Bulb demos now available in ten volumes via his…
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We’ve seen some strong thrash and death metal albums from Germany in 2021, with the likes of Desaster and Vulture embracing the blackened speed genre and Dark Zodiak, Aschenvater and…
As a play on the name of the Somerset town of Weston Super Mare, English multi-instrumentalist, Tom Stevens, makes it clear he has a sense of humour. Weston Super Maim…
Corfu quintet, Fragment Soul, are an unusual proposition. Draconian vocalist, Heike Langhans, is a part-time member of the band, and they pivot their sound towards the darker side of the…
Few bands can match At the Gates when it comes to influence. Carcass might have laid the blueprint for melodic death metal, but At the Gates were the artist that…
Iceland produced a masterpiece of progressive metal last year with Cult of Lilith treating us to a debut album of genre-bending complexity and ambition. Now it’s the turn of Ophidian…
Danish quartet, VOLA, are proof that rock music still has something to offer those of us who inhabit the heavier end of the noise spectrum. Like Tesseract, VOLA pitch melodious…
You know Polars Collide will be a good band just by looking at their promo shot. Two of them wear Meshuggah t-shirts and another one sports a Death Human shirt.…
German metalcore newcomers, Defocus, made their debut on the live circuit in 2019 after honing their craft in the rehearsal room for an extended length of time. Covid-19 hit at…