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‘Often, you’re not sure why a tried-and-tested formula can be so enchanting, but Green Lung are an exception,’ said Scream Blast Repeat of their 2023 LP, This Heathen Land. You…
‘Like Neurosis, you know they’re doing something unique with the same tools as everyone else, but you can’t explain the perplexity or the promise of excitement they dangle in front…
Testament are the band that appear in the middle of every festival bill. Sometimes, they grab a spot near the top for a mid-ranking event leading people to sigh: “Ah,…
James “Pertubator” Kent is back with album number six, and this time it’s a release via Nuclear Blast. It should come as no surprise that the metal genre’s premier record…
Soulfly buck the trend of bands going into decline as they pass through the decades. It’s only with 2013’s Savages LP, that people started to see them as something other…
Paradise Lost are in an elite club of metal artists alongside Carcass and Sepultura that invented two genres. In their case, gothic metal gathered its seeds from their 1991 Gothic…
Malevolence straddle the hardcore and metal scenes with ease. Hailing from Sheffield, they introduced a new generation of angry teens to aggressive music with 2013’s Reign of Suffering. Nuclear Blast…
Fallujah are one of the few original bands in the metal landscape these days. Starting where Cynic left off in 1993, they’ve transcended the progressive death metal domain and created…