Theres a massive buzz in the air as a huge sold out crowd makes their way into the historic Brixton Academy for an evening with Machine Head. The sentiment is echoed early on by frontman Robb Flynn who asks the crowd if they can feel it. He’s right, theres an energy in...

Theres something so fun about the discovery of new bands found in various corners of the earth that effortlessly demands the listeners attention from the moment the play button is pressed. Once more, Norway seems to continue to be a hotbed of musical action that this t...

Imagine going up to Michael Monroe and claiming the often told tale that ‘rock is dead’. You’d be a brave man to say it to his face because in the absence of a true rock veteran the Finnish singer who has been trading rock n’roll tunes for the past 40 years is the genu...

Only three EP’s deep into a back catalogue of music filled with whirlwinds of absolute chaos and carnage, MSRY are back once again with their third slab of UK hardcore titled ‘Loss’.  If theres one thing we are learning right from the offset is that this is an angry so...

Its been a strong year for Implore who whave just seen the release of their album 'Alienated Despair'. Having been quite the regular in our playlists since release, we just couldnt pass on an opportunity to have a quick chat about the album. 

Alienated Despair is Implor...

Killswitch Engage have been a staple in most metal heads playlists for many years now and things have been no different this year with the release of ‘Atonement’ that saw the band kick things up a gear in what was one of their most ambitious albums to date. Atonement c...

When Howard Phillips Lovecraft sat down at his desk in the summer of 1926 and penned his seminal work of cosmic horror 'The Call of Cthulhu', little could he have known of the massive influence it would later have on science fiction, horror literature, film and even he...

Pist, a name of a band that you’d be forgiven in assuming were a one trick pony or just some generic metalcore band with nothing rememberable about them. Upon listening to the new album ‘hailz’, I’ll tell you something, I'm glad was wrong. Pist is a four piece doom/sto...

Two years in the making, Lacuna Coil’s ninth album arrives after the group published their first book ‘Nothing Stands In Our Way’ which tells the story of the bands journey so far since forming back in 1994.  The powerhouse from Milan brings Industrial, electronic, syn...

There will be thriving Hardcore scenes in virtually every major city in the world and every one of them will have their own unique voices. Closer to home for me, and Manchester can boast the likes of Broken Teeth and Guilt Trip as its contribution to HC worldwide. But...