London-based alternative metal group, Hawxx, have a purpose. That purpose is a mission. Their mission is a movement. This movement is a campaign. As a feminist band, they want their…
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Caregah garnered attention outside of Sweden with their fourth video-single, ‘Tomahawk’, in 2022. As a vibrant mix of sludge and stoner metal, it appeared on their debut Forsaken EP, released…
Death Dealer Union started in Los Angeles as a passion project of CC McKenna (drums) and Doug Weiand (lead guitars), but it became something entirely different as soon as they…
Kelly Shaefer is an innovator who helped to invent technical death metal as the guitarist and vocalist in Atheist. Others might identify him as one of the self-indulgent virtuosos that…
English prog metal veterans, Threshold, dazzled minds with last year’s Dividing Lines album, but their predecessor record is the raison d’etre for Oblivion Protocol’s existence. Threshold keyboardist, Richard West, enjoyed…
Canterbury quintet, Struck/Down, are in the elite of unsigned artists to have won a regional final of the UK’s premier battle-of-the-bands competition, Metal 2 the Masses. They started as a…
The regulars in the London hard rock and metal scene will remember Dave Runham from his previous band, Silas, who played Bloodstock in 2015 and dazzled many venues in the…
Hertfordshire metal quartet, Before the Sirens, have supreme confidence in their song writing skills and an unusual humility to accompany them. Alun Davies (vocals/guitar), Adam Aldridge (bass), and Chris Tidey…
A Metallica album is like a football world cup. It occurs on a cycle rather than every summer and creeps up on you when so much has happened in the…