Arizona quartet, Kardashev, impressed Metal Blade Records with their 2015 debut record, even though they have no live presence and anchor their sound to the obscure “deathgaze” tag. It’s quite…
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Athenar (aka Jamie Walters) launched Midnight in 2003 and can take credit for his influence on the current wave of blackened speed metal artists like Hellripper, Devastator and Stälker. Along…
Bay Area thrash legends, Vio-lence, sent the metal world into a meltdown when they reformed in 2019 for a one-off performance of their 1988 album, Eternal Nightmare. Since then, they…
Tech-death supremos, Allegaeon, are a band that personify the fight to survive. Guitarist and chief composer, Greg Burgess, is the only remaining musician from the 2010 debut record, with the…
Swedish post-metal heroes, Cult of Luna, are immune from criticism. They might owe a debt to Neurosis in their early days, but today they have a unique sound of their…
W.E.B. have four albums to their name and a stellar reputation as one of Greece’s finest extreme metal bands. Metal Blade agree with this sentiment and snapped them up for…
We like to ask our favourite new artists to review an album of their choice once we’ve conducted an interview with them. Who could be better placed to give an…
Whitechapel’s 2019 album, The Valley, is the definition of a career-defining record. Before that, this reviewer saw Whitechapel as one of those novelty deathcore bands that lost relevance after the…
Poland’s Hate are like Norway’s Blood Red Throne – they’ve been banging on the escape hatch of the metal underground for over two decades and can boast an impressive litany…