Parents are handed newborn children, authors are furnished with freshly printed books, and musicians are presented with CDs swaddled in liner notes and shrink-wrapped jewel cases. Just before this interview started, Gus G was given the first of many copies of Fearless – his exceptional new Read more…
If you play guitar, Gus G will need little introduction. As the founder of power metal masters Firewind, former sideman to none other than Ozzy Osbourne, and shred-ready solo artist in his own right, Gus G’s CV is punctuated with serious achievements. In the world of the six-string, he is a Read more…
Breaking Benjamin are a classic Marmite band. You either love what they do, or hate their guts. You’re either satisfied by the quality of their songs, or frustrated by Benjamin Burnley’s well-entrenched habit of making more or less the same album over and over again Read more…
Concept albums have long been a staple part of every progressive music fan’s diet. At this point, so many have been recorded that The Dali Thundering Concept had their work cut out as they put together the plan for Savages.
Their response was simple: Go as deep as possible, and refuse to settle for anything short of Read more…
On last year’s EP Insularity, Valis Ablaze made no secret of the fact that they’re massive Tesseract fans. Since I share the same opinion of the British djent overlords, the only fault I could have levelled at Insularity was its relative lack of other influences.
With Boundless, Valis Ablaze now show signs of Read more…
Lineup changes are often difficult to deal with – and having survived one recently, Bleed From Within are marking the end of an era with Read more…
In recent years, Caliban turned a creative corner as they began introducing djent influences into their well-established metalcore core. 2016’s Gravity was their best offering at that point – but now, Elements looks set to divide opinion and stir up some controversy Read more…
Listening to Will Haven’s latest feels like discovering some vast, alien, rusty undersea structure. The sheer pressure Muerte puts your eardrums under is incredible.
Time has clearly not softened Will Haven Read more…
Too many metal bands make music with all the depth of a raindrop. Tesseract, on the other hand, constantly strive to give their fans more than they could possibly ask for.
More meaning.
More innovation.
More Read more…
When an album forces me to go back and listen to bands who came of age in the early 2000s, it’s automatically on my good side. Feed The Rhino’s love of Deftones and modern metal-spiked hardcore is well-established, but the moment The Silence got started, the first note I wrote came out as follows: Read more…