Gorilla Manor is the début album from Silver Lake five-piece Local Natives. The album saw its U.K release on the 2nd of November 2009, and its U.S release on the 16th of February 2010. Backed by a significant amount of blogosphere hype, this first album has a lot to live up to, and thankfully it [...]

It’s interesting to hear an album from places in the world that you wouldn’t normally expect a metal album to be created.  I don’t mean that to sound narrow minded, but to hear an album with the quality of production and arrangement that Need from Greece have put their name to, I wonder if there’s [...]

This self titled album does have shades of rock intensity about it in its rawly rendered guitar sounds, but its most notable quality is its quiet, subtle and sombre nature.

More tomfoolery from the mental Northern kings of pop: make a vid! Win some things, possibly!

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 a shame really.  I remember seeing these lads from Kilkenny when they supporting Megadeth in the SFX years ago.  Perhaps a little bit of a mismatched lineup, it was still a proud moment to have one of our own playing ahead of Corrosion Of Conformity on the bill.  And now this is the final [...]

“…perhaps one of the most misunderstood albums of its time.”

A very posthumous release, Bleeding Heart is due on digital March 1st, and 7″ a week later.

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 [...]