Sometimes a band and a release just come out of nowhere and simply take your breath away that it’s an obfuscating wonder as to why they dwindled in anonymity prior. Australia’s Grey Waters are one such band, laying down a hefty gauntlet with this, their debut EP Below The Ever Setting Sun.

Now here’s an odd yet interesting idea from Peter Gabriel, one of the most recognisable voices of the last forty plus years – Scratch My Back. Essentially, it’s a covers album but with a rather engaging twist. Every re-interpretation is backed by an orchestra. No guitars, no drums and certainly no synths. So if you’re looking [...]

It’s a night of no frills metal brutality here – straight to the point, straight for the jugular. British act Divine Chaos commences proceedings with their angular riff driven metal, all replete with some massive old school thrash influences. There’s a heady dosage of ambition in their delivery, with Path To War being a particular [...]

Initially, The Black Procession tour’s line up was a slightly divisive one, with some disagreeing on Machine Head’s support line up. But when Scottish bruisers Man Must Die take to the stage to commence the proceedings all those reservations are dispelled. For a band that is largely unknown to the crowd, they come out all [...]

In the space of merely an EP comprising of only three tracks Nottingham’s Alright The Captain have rattled the cage enough to have earned your undivided attention with their meandering instrumentalism.

Oh marmite, there’s nothing quite like it, is there? That said HIM really have become exemplary icons of the phrase in the last few years. They have hordes of die hard fans worldwide, who with remarkable vehemence lap the band up and hang on every one of front man Ville Valo’s words. But on the [...]

It’s almost a year ago that metal fans worldwide rejoiced in unison when word surfaced that Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares had well and truly stitched up their wounds and reformed Fear Factory, being the band’s two key components. But the reunion was not without its aches and pains as original bassist Christian Olde [...]

It’s almost a bit odd to think that Lostprophets have been on the go since 2000, seeing as The Betrayed is only their fourth release. The band has always taken lengthy and somewhat unnecessary gaps between all the albums – predecessor Liberation Transmission stretches back to 2006.

Ihsahn. Ask any well seasoned metal fan that name and the response will ring many a positive reverberation. First hitting the radar with the enormously pioneering and influential black metal act Emperor, as their front man and guitarist, Ihsahn sculpted from the start a massively respectable repute for himself.

Once upon a time the terms “post rock” and “post metal”, though somewhat ambiguous, were associated with innovation, experimentalism and fearless deviation from the median. In fact, post rock has been best described in the past as music involving instruments associated with rock music but used for un-rock like creativity. The statement passes off as [...]