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Track: Katatonia – Behind The Blood
Katatonia have released a live performance video of the City Burials single ‘Behind The Blood’, taken from the forthcoming live lockdown session album Dead Air. Vocalist Jonas Renkse comments: “Here’s our first and (so far) only live rendition of ‘Behind The Blood’ from our latest album, City Burials. As weird as these times are, it gives us a …
Track: Death Angel – A Room With A View (Acoustic)
Bay Area thrash giants Death Angel recently released a new EP titled ‘Under Pressure’, which featurs their stunning take on rock legends QUEEN & DAVID BOWIE’s iconic song of the same name. The EP also includes the new original song, “Faded Remains,” and two newly recorded acoustic versions of “Revelation Song” and “A Room With A View.” Guitarist Rob Cavestany comments on the song: “I’m …
Track: Collapse Of Colour – Hopeless
Northern metalcore band Collapse Of Colour have shared their new single ‘Hopeless’ From the start you can’t miss the jackhammer drumming of Tom Wilson behind an impressive melodic guitar. But what makes this track really shine apart from the musicianship, is the contrasting vocals between harsh and clean. Harsh coming from Evan Jones giving us …
Track: Firstborne – Cut The Strings
Firstborne (comprised of Chris Adler, James LoMenzo, Girish Pradhan and Myrone) have shared their latest single ‘Cut The Strings’ fresh from releasing their debut EP earlier this year. Girish Pradhan comments: “Every time there’s a force that challenges the most fundamental right of a human being – Freedom – music has always served as the voice …
Album Review: Pallbearer – ‘Forgotten Days’
Pallbearer are back with their fourth offering of doom metal and a band going almost full circle. This new album is connected to their first long play album ‘Sorrow and Extinction’ as Rowland says: “This record has a lot of thematic ties to our first record.” The band are reliving the early days and this …
Track: Hollywood Undead announce new album and share a new version of track – Heart Of A Champion
Los Angeles quintet, Hollywood Undead have announced the second instalment of their critically-acclaimed two part opus, New Empire. New Empire Vol. 2 will be released on Friday, December 4th via BMG/Dove and Grenade Media. In addition to the new album announcement, the band have also released a new version of fan-favourite track, ‘Heart of a Champion’ taken from the first album …
News: Korn Joins Forces with World of Tanks Blitz for Halloween Event
Korn have collaborated with Wargaming and free-to-play video game titan, World of Tanks Blitz for a special Halloween event, to reveal the music video for Finally Free, taken from the band’s latest studio album, The Nothing. The video sets the stage for World of Tanks Blitz’s brand new Halloween mode: Burning Games. The clip for Finally Free tells the story …
News: Beast In Black announce 2021 European Tour
Helsinki based heavy metal band Beast In Black announce their European Tour for November / December 2021 which will take them through 13 countries, ready to spew its unrivaled heavy metal fury all over them! The band comments: “Not easy to say any wise words in these dark times so just let us smoothly announce our upcoming …
News: Enslaved announce 2021 tour
Having just released their acclaimed new studio album Utgard little over a week ago, (Read our review here) Norwegian blackened avant-gardists Enslaved have announced a European tour for May 2021. The band achieved some incredible chart positions worldwide including; US #67 Billboard #9 Current Hard Music #3 Top New Artist, Germany #30, UK #17 Indie #8 Rock and Italy …
News: Diamond Head announce UK spring 2021 tour with special guests, Rock Goddess
Despite the global pandemic, 2020 has been a busy year for the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal pioneers. Fresh from completing the re-recording of ‘Lightning To The Nations 2020’ (see previous post here) and relentless in their quest to bring The Coffin Train to the world, Diamond Head announce the dates for their anticipated 2021 UK Tour. …