rock/metal
News: Nirvana’s Nevermind Reaches It’s 30th Anniversary
The September 24, 1991 release of Nirvana’s Nevermind touched off a seismic shift in global youth culture. Rising to #1 worldwide over the next few months, its impact would elevate Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl from a promising Pacific Northwest cult band to one of the most successful and influential artists of all time. Nevermind returned …
Track: Molybaron – Slave To The Algorithm
French-Irish quartet Molybaron recently landed a deal with InsideOut Music / Sony Music Entertainment, with the news the band have announced the release of their new album The Mutiny due 29th October. To celebrate, the band have recorded a series of studio sessions featuring tracks from the record. Gary Kelly (vocals/guitar) adds: “As a prelude to the …
Track: The Zephyr Bones – Sparks
Barcelona’s Spanish/Chilean psych-rock quartet, The Zephyr Bones have shared their track ‘Sparks’. The final track to be taken from their forthcoming album, Neon Body due 22nd October via La Castanya. There’s plenty of 80s vibes in this whispering track thats synth and groove heavy as it morphs into a disco classic. The band have a more chilled approach to this track …
Live Review: Slam Dunk North
Post-covid.. we’re getting there. Live music is back in everyone’s lives and what a way to kick off mass gatherings than an absolute riot at the UK’s best rock/pop-punk festival, Slam Dunk. After changing locations a couple of times in the last decade, the festival now boasts 6 stages of good vibes and great bands …
Track: Whores Cover AC\DC’s Have A Drink On Me feat Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher For Magnetic Eye Redux Series
The Magnetic Eye [Redux] Series features hand-picked classic albums from across the history of rock and metal, re-imagined by artists from throughout the rock and metal world who are tasked to select a track to make their own. On the first single from the forthcoming installment, AC/DC’s Back in Black, Atlanta’s Whores are joined by Mastodon co-founder Bill Kelliher for their sludgy, stomping take on …
See: Cradle Of Filth – Necromantic Fantasies
With the release of their 13th album, Existence Is Futile, due 22nd October, Cradle Of Filth have revealed the video for the second single off the album – Necromantic Fantasies. Directed by Vicente Cordero, this video was shot back-to-back with his previous work for the band, the horribly apocalyptic Crawling King Chaos, though both are remarkably contrasting. Dani Filth had this to say …
Track: Steve Conte – Overnight Smash
New York City guitarist, singer and songwriter Steve Conte has released the next single “Overnight Smash,” taken off his first solo album in five years, due 5th November on Wicked Cool Records. Steve says, “Overnight Smash is about professional jealousy. Once somebody starts ‘Getting Somewhere’ in their career, there is always that crowd that, for whatever reason, got left behind …
Meet: Northern metallers Rituals
Rituals are an exciting new band on the metal scene who have just released their EP ‘Awake’. We caught up with the band to find out who they are and how that EP came to fruition. First off. How are you guys doing now that we are hopefully seeing the end of the current situation? …
EP: Night Thieves – Spiral
With covid having forced the band into the studio with producers Paul Visser (Black Orchid Empire, Hawxx) and Kev Yates (Forever Never) to create the follow up to their debut EP Battle Cry. The result is their epic three track EP Spiral. The band remark about the EP: “Work on Spiral began the moment lockdown …
Track: LLNN – Desecrator
Unmaker, the 3rd album by Copenhagen’s LLNN, set for release on 24th September via Pelagic Records. The band have shared another single and new video for track ‘Desecrator’. Ketil G. Sejersen sound designer of LLNN comments: “In chaotic times, chaotic sonic vibrations sprout in the form of pulverising energy, desperation and heaviness. This song is all about that. …