rock/metal
Track: The Halo Effect – Feel What I Believe
The Halo Effect are Jesper Strömblad, Peter Iwers, Daniel Svensson, Niclas Engelin of In Flames and Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity. After sharing their first single ‘Shadowminds’, the band return with the second release with ‘Feel What I Believe’. The band comments: “The song is basically about how it felt growing up and discovering extreme metal in …
Track: Matthew Heafy Shares First Single From His New Project ‘Ibaraki’ Featuring Emperor’s Ihsahn
Triviums Matthew Heafy is delighting fans today by releasing the first single from his long-awaited and much-anticipated Ibaraki project. Ibaraki is the name for a terrifying Japanese demon taken from feudal legendThe band have also released the video for the track titled “Tamashii No Houkai,” featuring special guest Ihsahn of Emperor fame. “‘Tamashii No Houkai’ means ‘the breaking of the soul’ or ‘soul collapse,” explains Heafy. “It’s …
Live Review: Stone Cold Abyss / Scarred By Truth – NE Volume Music Bar, Stockton 08.01.22
A night of metal was promised with three bands originally on the line up Scarred By Truth, Graviter and headliner Stone Cold Abyss. Unfortunately as seems to be the recent theme, Graviter had to pull out due to Covid related issues. Tonight would also be Yorkshire’s Scarred By Truth 3rd gig, not that you could …
Track: Kurokuma – Sacrifice to Huitzilopochtli
With their debut album ‘Born of Obsidian’ which is set for release on 4th Feb, UK psychedelic sludge-metal band Kurokuma have shared their second single ‘Sacrifice To Huitzilopochtli’. Drummer Joe Allen comments on new single: “Sacrifice to Huitzilopochtli is about human sacrifice to the god of sun and war and the Templo Mayor. It was …
Album Review: Boris – W
In July 2020, Tokyo experimental metal trio Boris released ‘NO’, their fastest, loudest, heaviest album for several years, one that eschewed the drone metal elements of much of their recent material and re-embraced the hardcore punk influences of their early work. The album was hard, fast, and unsubtle, made for rip-roaring countryside driving music, and …
Live Review: The Rockaway Beach Festival – 07.01.2022 – 09.01.2022
Welcome to the end of the fear show! After everyone was grounded in 2021 Bognor braced itself for the return of the Rockaway Beach Festival. In the middle of a continuing pandemic? Really? As an idea it seemed crazier than the competitors in the notorious Bognor Birdman contest – a true leap of faith! During …
Live Review: Strange Bones / Calva Louise / Nova – The Leadmill, Sheffield 15.01.2022
Strange Bones and Calva Louise’s co-headline tour rolled into Sheffield treating The Leadmill to a kaleidoscopic feast of visual effects as high octane punk rock met electronic cyber punk insanity. Local rockers Nova, warmed up the Leadmill’s early bird attendees with an intense set of heavy progressive rock. Guitarist Tom Whitehead’s playing had an intensity …
See: SOM – Center
With their new album ‘The Shape of Everything’ due next week via Pelagic Records, SOM have shared the new video for the dreamy post-metal track ‘Center’, directed by Samia Zaidi. Will Benoit from the band comments, “‘Center’ was one of the first songs we worked on as a band remotely during lockdown. The vocals were originally …
Track: Venom Prison – Nemesis
With their debut album due next month, Venom prison have shared the next single from the album with their new track ‘Nemesis’ Venom Prison comment about the track: “This song is about the urge to hurt the person who has caused you irreparable harm and has changed your life forever. It deals with having been …
Track: Once Human – Erasure
Once Human have shared new track ‘Erasure’, taken from their forthcoming album, ‘Scar Weaver’, due 11th Feb via earMusic. Frontwoman Lauren Hart tells us about the theme of new single: “Erasure is a song about blood diamonds. It’s about the clear-cut, horrific message that a rock is worth more than a life to their producers. Although today there are human rights …