Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Napalm Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Dealing With Demons, Volume I is the eighth (ninth if we count 2018’s covers album, Outlaws ‘Til the End, also a Volume I) studio album from DevilDriver, one of the biggest names in modern US groove metal alongside…
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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…
Killswitch Engage + Revocation + Tenside @ O2 Brixton Academy, London
Killswitch Engage + Revocation + Tenside @ O2 Brixton Academy, London 20th October 2019 Review by Kira Levine Photography by Ryan Whitwell
Tyler Caruso of Absence of Despair on New CD Desolate – Just About Staying True to Your Own Style of Writing!
Interview by Robert Cavuoto Rhode Island-based modern metalcore rockers Absence of Despair will be releasing their brand new album, Desolate, on September 13, 2019. The album features 12 heavy-hitting anthems that showcase this hard-working up-and-coming band’s undeniable raw talent. Ripping, intense metal grooves blended with addictive hooks poise. The band…
Misery Index-Rituals Of Power
Artist: Misery Index Album: Rituals Of Power Label: Season Of Mist Year: 2019 Reviewed by Mr.Metalguy Rating: 4/5 Misery Index has The Tone – that telltale sound that lets you know you are listening to Misery Index. Every musical act has tone, but not all have The Tone. It…
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…
Kreator, Dimmu Borgir, Hatebreed & Bloodbath @ The Roundhouse, London
Kreator, Dimmu Borgir, Hatebreed & Bloodbath The Roundhouse, London 16th December 2018 Review & Photography: Graham Hilling
Levania – The Day I Left Apart
Reviewed: April 2018 Released: 2018, Sliptrick Records Rating: 1/5 Reviewer: Andrew Cook Gothic Metal/Metalcore is how this band has been described, and for this reviewer the title did not fill me with great confidence when this arrived in my inbox make no doubt about it. I’m old school, the only…
Eluveitie + Amaranthe + The Charm The Fury @ Islington Assembly Hall, London
Eluveitie + Amaranthe + The Charm The Fury @ Islington Assembly Hall, London November 3, 2017 Review by Torbjørn ‘Toby’ Jørstad Photography by Graham Hilling
Trivium + Sikth + Shapes @ Roundhouse, London
Trivium + Sikth + Shapes @ Roundhouse, London 17 February, 2017 Review and photography: Billy Edmonds
The Amity Affliction @ Roundhouse, London
The Amity Affliction – This Could Be Heartbreak EU/UK Tour Roundhouse, London – December 6, 2016 Photography and Review: Billy Edmonds Even though winter is definitely arriving in London, the queue that day was huge, for those who know the venue. Stretching well and truly beyond the Morrisons an hour before…
CONFRONTO – Felipe Chehuan
Brazil is home to many amazing bands, whether you are into death or thrash or punk or hardcore or power metal, a fan will always find something interesting coming from Brazil. One great example from this influential scene, is the band Confronto from Rio de Janeiro. Taking influences from…