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…
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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.…
Following up their collaborative music video to Turbo Killer, Carpenter Brut and creative team Seth Ickerman (aka Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard) combine to bring us Blood Machines, a science…
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…
Over the years, Andreas Kisser and the boys have churned out a steady arsenal of high-quality metal records to only lukewarm applause. 2006’s Dante XXI was a daring foray into…