melodic metal
Live Review and gallery: The Butterfly Effect, Caligula’s Horse and Thornhill at Hobart Uni Bar 09/10/2022.
Hobart heavy metal fans were treated when Vandemonium Touring, in conjunction with Destroy All Lines, secured this fabulous triple bill of melodic, prog metal bands to play at Hobart Uni Bar on Sunday, 9th October. Headliners, The Butterfly Effect, were on the road to promote the release of their long-awaited fourth album, the aptly titled …
Track: Evil Drive – We Are One
Finish melodic metal band Evil Drive have shared a new track ‘We Are One’, taken from the upcoming album ‘Demons Within’ due 2nd April via Reaper Entertainment. Announcing the track with clattering cymbals and a wall of sound from the guitars. The melodic lead playing for the chorus sounds great underneath Viktoria Viren’s death growl …
Track: Kingdom Of Giants – Sync
California based metal band Kingdom of Giants will release their new album, ‘Passenger’, due October 16 via SharpTone Records. Along with the announcement, the band has shared their first single ‘Sync’. On this first look the band shares, “Choosing the 1st song your band will release after it’s been 3.5 years since your last album might be the most nerve racking …
Track: Chasing Ghosts – Bring Me Suffering
British melodic dark-metal outfit ‘Chasing Ghosts’ have a new single & video released 22nd May with a full EP of the same name to follow on 12th June. Featuring the sorrowful melodies of Meghan Pettitt (ex The Eden House) Bring Me Suffering is a great atmospheric record full of dynamics broadening into prog metal and the interplay …
Track: The Five Hundred – Black Dogs
‘Black Dogs’ is the first single taken from the bands new album coming in October 2020 via Long Branch Records. ‘Black Dogs’ is a song about isolation and the plague of mental health, particular anxiety, paranoia and suicidal ideations. Vocalist John Woods-Eley speaks of the personal mental torment that inspired him to write the track: “When you are suffering …