In a special piece, Ritual bassist, James Marinos, documents a week in his life after the release of the band’s excellent Enigma EP. We also asked James to muse over…
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English trio, Puppy, are the type of heavy noise experiment NME and The Guardian cover as a sop to their small number of readers with a passing interest in metal.…
Ritual’s Enigma EP is one of the most anticipated records from an independent band in England. SBR brought you an exclusive on this as early as January 2022, when the…
The image of four bearded Frenchmen in pink polo shirts and tight white cotton slacks might give you the wrong idea about Tranzat. They look like they’re warming up for…
Hertfordshire quintet, Skarlet Envy, are a band that bewilder. It’s not through deliberation or a grand masterplan to appeal to a wider audience, nor do they take comfort in knowing…
Hertfordshire quintet, Skarlet Envy, first appeared on the SBR radar with their excellent 2019 EP, Invidia. We couldn’t decide if they were an alternative metal enigma or a heavy metal…
French progressive metalcore trio, Resolve, are just as enamoured with utopian synthesisers as breakdown riffs and make it their aim to second-guess your expectations. Like their fellow countrymen in Novelists…
Multi-instrumentalist, Colin Jenkins, is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and a man who can switch from free jazz to experimental hardcore as easy as changing suits. His Christ…
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…