Eight Lives Down are like a school of excellence for professional musicians across the world. Based in London and Leiden (Netherlands), vocalist Aliki Katriou leads the quartet with the remaining…
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“The Burning Red is a misunderstood album with notable flaws but Flynn’s transition into a talented singer and songwriter with melodious vocals and killer choruses started here.” “Why the need…
Hard rock and heavy metal are the family trades for members of Ravened. Main songwriter, Olle Liljegren, is the son of Simeon from Audiovision and drummer, Oliwer Svennson, is the…
Phobetor call their music ‘nihilistic extreme metal’, but there is nothing futile about their crushing sound. As a female-fronted trio with a session bassist they avoid clichés where others would…
To mark the release of the new Lamb of God album, we asked Mike and Kim Merino of UK alt-metal supremos, Skarlet Envy, to do us the honour of a…
The husky metal vocals of the 1990s are a lost art these days, so it’s refreshing when we come across a set of pipes that sound like James LaBrie (Dream…
Glasgow’s Bleed From Within started life as a deathcore band with their debut release in 2009 but evolved into a metalcore groove machine with 2018’s excellent Era album. As a…
You Tube adverts in between videos can be annoying. You have your favourite Metal band ready to stream and a four-minute showpiece from an unknown artist pops up like an…
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…