Metalcore is a turnoff for a lot of metal fans. All those youthful emo kids playing breakdown riffs and unleashing radio-friendly choruses in between the gurning and false testosterone is…
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The rise of Jinjer over the last years four years is one of the great success stories of modern metal. Forced to flee their war-torn homeland in eastern Ukraine for…
Revisiting an old lover like this during a pandemic is a conflicted feeling. Yes, there’s a lot of love there, but does the current situation make you view it with…
Russian quintet, Return of the Soul, dare to do the unimaginable. Not many bands mix modern metalcore with the symphonic splendour of Nightwish and the brooding gothic darkness of vintage…
French quintet, Sangheilis, call their music Neocore but that term has no accompanying definition. Is it the inclusion of glitch effects or trippy synthesisers that create the neocore sound? Or…
Estonian metalcore experimentalists, Horror Dance Squad, are a staple of the scene in Tallinn and represented their country at the 2016 Wacken Open Air Battle of the Bands. After six…
Australian metalcore outfit, Alpha Wolf, surprised many with the moderate commercial success of their debut offering in 2017. An entry at 29 in the ARIA charts is impressive for a…
The history of Expander is sort of a headscratcher. They released their first full-length, Endless Computer, on NWN (Nuclear War Now!) Productions, which is the go-to label for goat-metal bands…
West Virginia’s Curses are the latest in a long line of djent-inspired metalcore bands with a plural noun for a name (think Monuments, Currents, Reflections, Novelists FR) and a cast…