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Track: The visceral and rampant RedHook aim their impressive arsenal at keyboard warriors in the blistering ‘Low Budget Horror’ and announce rescheduled tour dates.
RedHook incorporate a vast and powerful array of weaponry in their visceral take down of cowardly keyboard warriors in the explosive ‘Low Budget Horror’. Slamming heavy metal riffs, electronic intrusions with a dose of growling death metals utterings and anthemic choruses combine to create a cathartic dose of pure energy. Lead vocalist Emmy Mack explains the inspiration …
Live Review: Batushka / Belphegor / Diabolical / Almost Dead & Warhammer – Manchester Bread Shed 18.11.21
Diabolical / Warhammer (click on thumbnail for full view) Almost Dead (Click on the thumbnail for full view) Belphegor (Click on the thumbnail for full image)
EP Review: Superlove creates an entrancing melange of heavy metal pop delights in their EP ‘….but for the moment’
The new EP from Superlove is a fascinating mix between slamming hard rock and commercial pop: a mix that is dynamic and shimmering and creates something quite refreshing. Thundering guitars sit next to bubbling synths within one track, with a vocal overlay that ranges from synth-infected vocoders to raw and emotional melodies. There is a …
EP Review: Perth’s Onslow release an operatic, anthemic and dynamic self-titled debut
Rising Perth debutantes Onslow (duo Sean Harmanis and Scott Kay) have a remarkable breadth in their music: songs that range from jingle jangle melodic delicacy to full-throated metal screaming within seconds, and within one song. The result is something that is quite extraordinary: a hard to define genre that has an anthemic infrastructure with thundering …
Track: New Zealand’s The Datsuns explode back into the ether with ‘Dehumanise’ and announcement of a new album.
It is recommended that you have your emergency contacts nearby when you intake the new single ‘Dehumanise’ by New Zealand’s Lords of Loud, The Datsuns. It has the full force a bolt of electricity administered by a faulty defibrillator and the effects will be felt in your ears hours after administration. And what a cathartic …
EP Review: RedHook release the explosive and very therapeutic EP ‘Bad Decisions’ and announce tour
It is hard to classify Sydney band RedHook – there is an electronic buzzsaw blitz with thundering percussion and at times a blistering wall of noise, all wrapped up in a sparkling pop mantle, with hip hop shades and choruses. It’s heavy metal psycho pop. But, throughout their new EP ‘Bad Decisions’, there is a …
See: Valfreya – Warlords
Canada’s Valfreya have released a video for track ‘Warlords’ taken from their album Promised Land. With a mixture of cinematic drama, brutal heaviness and deathly dark vocals, this track sticks out of the crowd. Female and male duets and full band vocals give a huge sense of power from this group. There’s a chance to …
Track: Thunder Horse – Chosen One
San Antonio heavy metal band Thunder Horse have shared the title track taken from their upcoming new album ‘Chosen One’, due 12th March via Ripple Music. Regarding the track vocalist Stephen Bishop comments: “Chosen One was one of the first song ideas I came up with for this album. Lyrically speaking, it is no secret that the US has been …
Track: Fire Follows Share Explosive Track – Glass Grenade
American metal rockers Fire Follows, have released a new track ‘Glass Grenade’ via TLG Entertainment/In Grooves The band comments: “The ‘Glass Grenade’ represents a fragile heart that is on the verge of breaking, and the catastrophic damage that can be done if it does…. an insightful message wrapped in a powerful instrumental makes this one …
Track: Korpiklaani – Tuuleton
Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani’s new album Jylhä! has been released and in celebration, the band have produced another gorgeous music video for the song Tuuleton. Frontman Jonne said about Jylhä: “This is the most versatile Korpiklaani album we have done. We have some of our hardest, heaviest and fastest songs ever, and we have happy and melancholic ones. It …