UK prog metal is stronger than ever with the likes of Tesseract, Conjurer, Haken, Urne and Dvne leading the way, but the underground also has an abundance of bands waiting…
Tag: alternative metal
Melbourne superheroes, Twelve Foot Ninja, are a mainstream success in Australia and a cult band in Europe and North America. Now back after a five-year wait, the alt-metal crew will…
Ministry are one of the most influential bands of the last three decades on heavy music and experienced major commercial success in the 1990s as Lollapalooza darlings and industrial metal…
The expectation levels for Spiritbox’s debut album are monstrous. After fashioning their own brand of alternative prog metal in the aftermath of leaving I Wrestled A Bear Once, the duo…
Finland’s Mortyfear formed in the late 1990s, yet this is only their second album following a sporadic release of EPs and various line-up changes. Now the quintet are confident enough…
London duo, Sectlinefor, take pride in antagonising a live audience of metalheads and pissing off metal purists. Their cartoonish appearance, miscegenated metallic dance music and camp disco callisthenics are as…
This is a pop album. Pop with an onomatopoeic =*POP*=! An effervescent burst of unembarrassed noise. It is shiny and hollow, like the snap from a burst bubble, and as…
Despite being a country that harbours a love affair with all things melodic death metal, Finland has its fair share of cross-pollinating artists, whether that be Ensiferum (folk metal), Nightwish…
“The world has changed many times and it’s changing again.” One of the things that hasn’t changed is the portentous voiceover on proggy concept albums: we’ve missed that voice. Last…