Scream Blast Repeat enjoyed Industrial Puke’s debut EP last year and commented that ‘hardcore and death metal should not be natural bedfellows, but many of today’s extreme bands force you…
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Many see Mezzrow as one of Sweden’s finest thrash bands. Their 1990 debut, Then Came the Killing, emerged at a time when death metal was all the rage. Mezzrow fizzled…
You can often tell the quality of a band by the t-shirts they wear. A promo picture of Last Legion shows them sporting Mgła, Morbid Angel and Black Sabbath merchandise.…
Swedish heavy metal freakshow, Avatar, are a rare species in the genre – fun is their main priority. They write and record songs with the live performance in mind. Vocalist,…
In Flames can be proud of their influence on heavy music as one of the pioneers of melodic death metal along with At the Gates and Dark Tranquillity. For inexplicable…
Swedish legends, Katatonia, are one of the most distinctive artists in heavy guitar music. They started as a vicious death-doom band in the early 1990s but retooled their sound in…
Grá have a rich heritage in black metal with current Dark Funeral frontman, Heljarmadr, on guitars and vocals, and Godhead Machinery guitarist, Niklas Ekwall, joining for their latest album. Now…
It’s easy to mistake KOLLAPS\E for Danish post-metal trio, Kollapse, or even for Australian post-industrial noise terrorists, Kollaps. It’s a word in demand among artists that want to unsettle listeners,…
Swedish quintet, Shaam Larein, take their name from their theatrical Syrian singer and play an unusual hybrid of doom metal and post-punk. Imagine taking Siouxsie and The Banshees and splicing…