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…
Tag: alternative metal
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…
If you were putting together a supergroup of the most influential musicians of the alternative rock and metal scene that dominated the 1990s, the chances are you’d assemble current and…
Sometimes you sift through your vinyl records and come across The Pixies and Butthole Surfers among the extreme metal and dark post-punk bands in there. You think, “Oh, I haven’t…
French metal eccentrics, Psykup, are the European equivalent of Mr Bungle and draw most of their inspiration from Mike Patton in terms of style and sinister humour. Formed in 1995,…
Who remembers when Aborym were the most divisive band in extreme metal and the most hyped? Terrorizer magazine awarded their 2001 effort, Fire Walk With Us!, a perfect 10 out…
Faith No More showed as early as 1985 that thrash metal can appear in the most unusual of settings, in their case a weird post-punk/ alternative aesthetic. Italian duo, Moonreflex,…