Metalcore and symphonic metal must be two of the most sterile and over-produced genres in heavy music, but nobody told Age of Athena. The Canadian quartet fuse the two as…
Tag: heavy metal
2021 produced some strange records, but Solar Cross might have the most unusual prog metal release of the year. Formed by the three Pikka brothers – two of whom used…
This reviewer will always be grateful to Cradle of Filth for keeping extreme metal alive in the barren period of the late 1990s when nu metal polluted the earth. Though…
Jackal’s Backbone were the band on everybody’s lips as the darlings of the Hertfordshire metal scene before Vexed appeared from nowhere and secured a deal with Napalm Records to release…
The origins of Swedish metal quartet, Eyes Wide Open, are in melodic death metal, but they signed to Arising Empire Records in May this year with a promise to incorporate…
Anyone who heard 2019’s Orphans LP will know that The Agonist produced a bona fide album of the year contender on their last effort. The remarkable vocal range of Vicky…
Bedfordshire thrash quartet, Helgrind, come from Arlesey, which still boasts the record for being the longest linear village in England. Sharing a border with Hitchin in Hertfordshire, the band are…
It’s rare for an artist with pop punk and ska origins to evolve into a transgressive metal band with a macabre sense of humour and shock rock aesthetic. But that…
Iron Maiden are in the top ten most influential metal bands of all time. Where would the big four of thrash be without the English titans? How could melodic death…