Tragedy struck Polaris in June this year during their European festival tour when guitar prodigy, Ryan Siew, passed away in mysterious circumstances that have still not been confirmed. As the…
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With a Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) collaboration in the works and his metal supergroup, Killer Be Killed, to keep him occupied, you wouldn’t expect Greg Puciato to form another…
Mathcore enthusiasts will know Joshua Travis as the rhythmic mastermind behind The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza. Like The Red Chord and Textures, his former band are now more of a…
It’s obvious Pridelands are an artist on SharpTone Records after just one song. Their label is a Nuclear Blast spin-off that specialises in signing emo-tinged and djent-fuelled metalcore artists in…
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…
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…
Emmure’s Frankie Palmeri is possibly the most polarising frontman in modern metal. He has the neck tattoos and thug image to go with the misogynist lyrics and does not give…
For those unaware, SharpTone Records is a label founded by Nuclear Blast CEO, Markus Staiger, and Shawn Keith of Sumerian Records and seems to exist for the sole purpose of…
A band who assign their music an exclusive label will always get our attention. Indiana sextet, The Wise Man’s Fear, call their art Fantasycore and present us with a concept…