Reviewed: [August 2020] Released [2020 Rise Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Massachusetts brutes The Acacia Strain seem to be full of surprises these days. First, there was the unannounced Christmas time release of the epic EP It Comes In Waves, a single 30-minute song split into seven individually named…
Deathcore
Mick Jeffery Of Aversions Crown On New CD, Hell Will Come For Us All – This Is Our Most Accomplished Sounding CD!
Interview by Robert Cavuoto Emerging in 2010 amidst a sea of blackened Deathcore, Australia’s Aversions Crown separated themselves from the rest with their visceral sense of the genre. Coming equipped with a variety of vocal patterns and brutal 8-string guitar work, their technically onerous sound has developed and become increasingly…
The Acacia Strain – It Comes In Waves
Reviewed: May 2020 Released: 27th December 2019, Closed Casket Activities Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Andrew Shirley The Acacia Strain are not your average heavy band: their sound has progressed through releases, getting heavier, grittier and just downright filthy since their inception in 2001. Since then they’ve gone several line up…
MTV Headbangers Ball 2019 (Kataklysm + Whitechapel + Fleshgod Apocalypse + Dyscarnate) @ The Electric Ballroom, London
MTV Headbangers Ball 2019 (Kataklysm + Whitechapel + Fleshgod Apocalypse + Dyscarnate) The Electric Ballroom, London 5th December 2019 Review by Kira Levine Photography by Manu Volpina The Electric Ballroom hosted MTV Headbangers Ball 2019 on the first Thursday in November in Camden, and featured four bands. First up were…
Cattle Decapitation + Osiah + Party Cannon @ The Cathouse, Glasgow
Cattle Decapitation + Osiah + Party Cannon @ The Cathouse, Glasgow Wednesday, 30th October 2019 Review By: Pete Mutant Photography By: Graham Hilling
Serpent of Gnosis – As I Drink From The Infinite Well Of Inebriation
Serpent of Gnosis – As I Drink From The Infinite Well Of Inebriation Reviewed: August 2019 Released 2019 1126 Records Rating 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Remember Job For A Cowboy? Seems like only yesterday, they came from out of nowhere thanks to MySpace – remember MySpace? – and became one…
After The Burial – Evergreen
Reviewed: [June 2019] Released [2019 Sumerian Records] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson With their last album, 2016’s Dig Deep, Minneapolis’ After The Burial (ATB) were still emerging from the dark cloud that following the loss a year earlier of guitarist Justin Lowe. Some of the last riffs he contributed to…
Born Of Osiris – The Simulation
Reviewed: [February, 2019] Released: [2019, Sumerian Records] Rating: [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson The Simulation is apparently the first part of a two-album set from Born Of Osiris (BOO), not unlike what their label mates Between The Buried And Me (BTBAM) have done not once, but twice – with last year’s…
Unearth – Extinction(s)
Reviewed: January 2019 Released: 2018, Century Media Records Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Long a metalcore band that put the “metal” before the “core,” Unearth returns after a four-year absence with their seventh album. With Extinction(s), though, the Mass-holes have flipped the script to accent the “core” at the expense…
Dying Fetus, Carnifex , Toxic Holocaust, Goatwhore @ Islington Academy, LONDON
Monday 13th August 2018 Review by Nathan Slack Photography by David William Hatton Dying Fetus have a reputation for bringing with them some kick ass bands with them on tour, case in point, they just announced a Fall US tour with Incantation and Gatecreeper and their recent European Tour was…
LPRHC FEST – Lappeenranta, Finland
LPRHC FEST Huhtiniemen Pallokentä, Lappeenranta, Finland August 1 – 2, 2014 Review by Petri da Costa Pics by Jetro Staven & Timo Koponen Although Finland is mainly known outside for its heavy metal bands and for the heavy and rock summer festivals, there’s a great hardcore…