Top 20 Metal Albums of 2019 As always, the top albums of the year are for full albums (no EP’s or demos) released in 2019. They are new studio albums for the year, not re-recordings, re-releases, cover songs, or live albums. Below the combined top 20 you will find links…
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Possessed – Jeff Becerra
Does this band need any introduction? If a death/black metal banger ain’t aware of Possessed, it’s about time they get a lesson in just how important and influential Possessed have been for the thrash/death/black genre. Frontman Jeff Becerra put Possessed back together for a Wacken show in 2007. After some…
Possessed – Revelations of Oblivion
Reviewed: June 2019 Released: 2019, Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes “Forefathers of genre X” (or some variation) is a term that gets bandied about a lot. This doesn’t mean it’s being misused though: few genres owe themselves entirely to a single artist, and most will have a…
Gruesome – Twisted Prayers
Reviewed: July, 2018 Released: 2018, Relapse Records Rating: 2.5 / 5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson It would seem that the super sideband Gruesome – which features Exhumed frontman/guitarist Matt Harvey, ex-Malevolent Creation drummer Gus Rios and ex-Possessed guitarist Daniel Gonzalez – are in this Death-worship thing for the long haul, for…
Bloodstock Festival 2017
Bloodstock Open Air 2017 @ Catton Hall, Derbyshire 10th-13th August Review by Demitri Levantis Photography & Mini Reviews by Graham Hilling
There’s just 37 days to go and counting! Bloodstock 2017!
Are you counting down the days yet to BLOODSTOCK 2017? There’s just 37 days to go – that’s a mere 5 weekends!! Maybe you’re making plans which campsite you’re going to stay in? Perhaps the brand new Ragnarök campsite, named by you, the fans? Or maybe you’ve just picked up…
Bloodstock Day Tickets on Sale from 30th June! Get them while you can!
BLOODSTOCK release their day tickets at 9am on the 30th June! Tickets will be priced at £60 (plus booking fee) and are available at bloodstock.seetickets.c om. Four-day ‘weekend tickets with camping’ are also still available, priced £139 (plus booking fee). Children’s weekend tickets are just £35 (+ booking fee) and…
Just ten more weekends before UKs BLOODSTOCK festival!
Time is zipping past and there are now just ten more weekends before BLOODSTOCK! Have you planned your travel and dusted off your tent? BOA HQ is busy with preparations, site visits are underway and we’ve confirmed nine more bands and a whopping 26 more club nights!
Sadistic Intent – Bay Cortez, Rick Cortez, Ernesto Bueno and Arthur Mendiola
INTERVIEW WITH SADISTIC INTENT Bay Cortez, Rick Cortez, Ernesto Bueno and Arthur Mendiola Sadistic Intent is one of the most respected bands in the underground death metal scene. The four-piece guided by the Cortez brothers has doggedly been carving out their path in death metal since 1987. The band has had ups and downs…
Belphegor + Possessed @ Islington Academy, London
Belphegor + Possessed @ Islington Academy, London 13th December, 2016 Review by Jarod Lawley Photography by Graham Hilling With two legends of extreme metal on a co-headlining tour over Europe, what could be heavier?
Keep It True XVI
Keep It True, the name says it all. Here the most dedicated metalheads gather every spring to trade records, meet friends, raise glasses and most of all, to witness pure and honest bands. Held once again in a small village Lauda-Königshofen, this now the 13th time. This year the lineup…
“BONDED BY BALOFF” ON-TRACK TO BE A SOLD-OUT EVENT
For those who were either born too late or living in the wrong part of the world while music which has now become legendary was exploding from the Bay Area’s thrash metal scene in the early-to-mid 1980s, here’s your second chance to re-live history. With a very special All Ages…
EXODUS & FORBIDDEN MEMBERS COMMENT ON UPCOMING TRIBUTE TO PAUL BALOFF
EXODUS and FORBIDDEN are just two of the bands from the now infamous Bay Area thrash metal scene who will be performing at the special show marking the 10-year anniversary of former EXODUS singer Paul “Pavel” Baloff’s passing. “Bonded By Baloff: A Decade Of Remembrance” will take place Saturday, February…
Jalometalli Festival – Oulu, Finland – August 15th & 16th 2008
The 15th -16th of August 2008 Oulu Teatria Finland Review and pictures by Arto Lehtinen, Niko Karppinen and Luxi Lahtinen Finland is definitely one hell of a paradise for metalheads as there are five to six metal festivals arranged all around Finland during the summer time. One of those metal…
Wacken 2007
Wacken Open Air 2007 Wacken is a blessed mecca of the whole metal world. Again this year it was entirely sold out when ten thousands of metal manics travelled from all around the world to gather and witness plenty of ass kicking bands. The weather forecast for Wacken didn’t look that promising. The chaotic…