The cancer diagnosis of My Dying Bride’s vocalist Aaron Stanthorpe’s daughter in 2017 looms heavy on ‘The Ghost of Orion’. After a lengthy break, Stanthorpe posted a heartfelt message on the band’s Facebook page updating fans [...]
Dark Fortress has always been an interesting band for me personally. Their dark ambient sounds coupled with massive heavy riff work, screeching leads in their past repertoire, an overtone of the black metal aesthetic in their musicality and hard hitting [...]
Despite having been active for three decades, most will still do a double take upon hearing that rapper Ice-T not only enjoys hard rock and heavy metal, but also fronts his own band of the same style. Body Count came as a surprise [...]
Beneath the Massacre are back baby! After a far-too-long eight year gap following 2012’s gargantuan Incongrous, the Canadian technical death mainstays are back with Fearmonger. While the band itself was dormant, the genre had moved on with new [...]
When you think of deathgrind, four bands lead the pack by a mile, Belgium’s genre firebrands Aborted, Californian vegan demigods Cattle Decapitation, Maryland’s politically charged Misery Index, and the perverts in France’s very own [...]
Brooklyn’s extreme metal band Tombs come back with their fifth full length installation in their 13th year of existence, and this time with an overhaul of their line-up around Michael Hill. I have always preferred Tombs to have the black metal only [...]
Swiss all woman heavy metal group ‘Burning Witches’ have been making waves in the world of metal music for all the right reasons. Their self-titled debut album and 2018’s Hexenhammer established these ladies as seasoned musicians with [...]
Release a new album, tour said album, film and release a new DVD of said tour. Repeat. This has been the pattern as of late for Neal Morse and The Neal Morse Band. And it is something I most certainly am not complaining about. I am perhaps making light of [...]
