rock/metal
Live Review: Chelsea Wolfe / Mary Jane Dunphe – Chalk Venue, Brighton 01.11.24
Just in time for Halloween, ‘Chelsea Wolf’ brings her dark, poetic presence to Brighton! It’s been a pleasure to witness Chelsea Wolfe play live again in the UK to highlight her new album, ‘She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She.’ It’s been more than five years since she played in Brighton and her …
Track: After Taste – Mind Over Body
After Taste have shared the video for their new track ‘Mind Over Body’, an anthem that lingers in the shadows of gothic, industrial and doom metal. The band are also announcing their brand new album ‘Hungry For Live’, which will be released on May 16, 2025. Vocalist/guitarist Dave Meester comments on the track: “I have always been …
News: Finnish Doom Metal Band Denigrate Have Released Their Fourth Album ‘To The Goddess Unknown’
Helsinki-based doom metal band Denigrate releases their fourth full length album titled ‘To the Goddess Unknown’ today November 29th 2024 via Inverse Records. Listen to the album on music services here. Since Denigrate was found back in ’96, the inevitable vibe of the band was to be dark, melancholy, tormented, observation. The quantity of albums released is really not the thing in …
Track: Rats Return With New Track ‘Section 60’
Liverpool’s socio-political five-piece Rats have shared their first new music since 2022 with the new track Section 60. The track documents the brutal reality of the British stop-and-search laws. Active since the latter stages of the last decade, the band, led by singer and lyricist, Joe Maddocks, have developed no small reputation for uncompromising social …
News: Killswitch Engage Drop New Single & Announce First New Album since 2019
Three-time Grammy-nominated hard rock heavyweights and platinum-selling band Killswitch Engage are pleased to announce their new album ‘This Consequence‘. It arrives February 21st via Metal Blade. It’s been a long wait for fans, the record follows 2019’s acclaimed album ‘Atonement‘. Pre-order the album here. The band – Jesse Leach, vocals; Adam Dutkiewicz, guitar; Joel Stroetzel, guitar; Mike D’Antonio, bass; and Justin Foley, drums – have also shared …
news: incineration festival adds more names to its massive line up for 2025 with the likes of lamp of murmuur, carnation, cryptopsy and celestial sanctuary.
American thrash assailants Warbringer are set to bring the hammer of heavy metal to Incineration Festival in 2025, joining our ever-heavier, stacked Electric Ballroom billing. Joining Blood Incantation on the ‘Absolute Elsetour’ campaign next Spring, Tokyo’s MINAMI DEUTSCH become the latest addition to Incineration Festival to be making their Incineration debut. Canada’s WORMWITCH return to …
news: fortress festival 2025 releases day splits and day tickets
Due to high demand a limited amount of day tickets have been released – 50 total per day Over 1,500 weekend tickets have already been sold. Festival expected to sell out soon. Tickets still available via FortressFestival.co.uk/tickets Day tickets and day splits have been released for rising black metal festival Fortress Festival, which will take place on …
news: defeated sanity unveiled as co-headliner for offal fest 2025: full line up revealed
DEFEATED SANITY unveiled as co-headliner for OFFAL FEST 2025; full line-up revealed Veteran brutal death metallers Defeated Sanity to co-headline Sunday along with Internal Bleeding as 14 new bands revealed for next year’s edition Putridity, Begging For Incest, Indecent Excision, Plasma, Impurist, Chainsaw Castration, Ancient Rivalry and many more other new bands complete the 2025 …
News: Orianthi To Bring Her Iconic Riffs Back to Australia in 2025
Orianthi Returns to Her Roots: January 2025 Aussie Tour Announced
News: Electric Wizard Will Release Double Live To Tape Album ‘Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1’
Legendary British doom outfit, Electric Wizard, will release ‘Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1,’ their new 2 disc live-to-tape album, on December 13th 2024. Recorded into a 16-track tape machine, capturing their essence, their malevolence, Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1 is as heavy as one would expect from The Wizard. “It’s raw …