Testament are legends. Now on their thirteenth studio album, they’re back once again with another dose of high-octane Thrash. Which means we get dazzling fretwork, pulverising drums and one of…
Category: Metal
Reflections went on hiatus in 2015 and dropped off people’s radars. You may remember them as a progressive metalcore band with djent leanings in the Periphery mould. Five young men…
Toronto’s Smoulder are a proud exponent of the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal. That means we get lyrics about demons and necromancers and swords and shields. We also get…
Liverpool has given us the greatest death metal band of all time in Carcass. Prog legends, Anathema, are also from the great port city, but few acts have surfaced since…
The wait is over. Expectations could not be any higher. The band best placed to replace Dillinger Escape Plan as the world’s most important and genre-pushing metal outfit managed to…
Hertfordshire’s Chinned are a ferocious live act. Singer, George Milner, warms up on stage with cross-body shoulder swings and screams in the face of the audience. The bass player soundchecks…
Igorrr (aka Gautier Serre) is back with another mission to bend our minds and take extreme metal into unchartered waters. 2016’s excellent, Savage Sinusoid, earned him the strangest genre tag…
If there’s one thing we like at Scream Blast Repeat, it’s a dose of Technical Death Metal. Which means Bristol’s Embodiment are preaching to the converted with their latest release.…
Despite geographical distance, Serpent Column are inseparable with Southern European philosophies and ancient history. They hail their mystical name from artefacts of Periclean Greece and make no secret of their…