As I Lay Dying “Shaped By Fire” Shaped By Fire One of THE classic metal bands out there, As I Lay Dying is set to release their seventh album into an unsuspecting world to burn your ears and melt your … Continue Reading
Crowhurst “Ghost Tropic” III Crowhurst is such a great metal band. Seriously, they are always going to surprise you, disturb you, give you nightmares, yet have you crawling back for more. They go through so many subtle rhythmic changes in … Continue Reading
Dead By Wednesday “You & Die” Dead By Wednesday What an asskicking band. Dead By Wednesday represents what I love about heavy metal: killer riffs, pounding bass, drums drums and more drums propelling you into the pit, great sick vocals … Continue Reading
Me & Munich “Knives Of The Sun” Knives Of The Sun What a killer band. Denmark has reached out to slay us again. This duo made up of Jan Petersen on guitar and Marco Bøgehøj on drums have the killer sound … Continue Reading
Dead Friends “Paimon (What You Omen)” My ears are bleeding, and that’s a good thing. I love this band. There is no holding back when these guys get going. I love the fact that this song is about belonging to … Continue Reading
Gandhi’s Gun “Test My Faith” Subject To Change Gandhi’s Gun is no normal band. Combining heavy metal with synth prog, adding female/male harmony vocals, kick ass bass, and drums galore, you get the original sound that is Gandhi’s Gun. According … Continue Reading
YOB “Our Raw Heart” Our Raw Heart Talk about heavy beauty. YOB’s new album, “Our Raw Heart”, is filled with beauty: beautiful vocals, great guitar riffs, thundering bass that carries the song, and percussion riffs that fill the spaces and … Continue Reading
Stitched Up Heart “Monster” Never Alone Imagine the voice of Shirley Manson wailing over some of the heaviest grooves ever. If you can, you’ve got Stitched Up Heart. These guys are super killer. The group was founded in 2010 by vocalist … Continue Reading
New Years Day “Kill Or Be Killed” Diary Of A Creep This is what heavy metal should sound like: killer vocals, killer riffs, killer beats, “Kill Or Be Killed”. New Years Day has been around since 2007, and their repertoire … Continue Reading
Year Of The Locust “Rise Up/Sunrise” Rock, Sex, God, Machine Talk about a punch to the solar plexus!!! Year Of The Locust is one of the bands that will kick your ass out of your winter complacency. With riffs and … Continue Reading
Tiavara “Celestial Dance” Delusional Tales Of Grand Intentions Tiavara is a Russian heavy metal band that proves have absolutely beautiful heavy metal can be. The foundation of the band was established by brothers Tikhon (lead guitar) and Danila (drums) Pachin in … Continue Reading
Ascending Dawn “All In Now” Coalesce Imagine Ann Heart fronting Eth or Cirith Ungol. You get the idea. This is ear-shattering heavy metal with melodic lead vocals. Ascending Dawn is Marlain Angelides (vocals/songwriter) from Greece by way of London to New … Continue Reading
Black Veil Brides “My Vow” VALE They’re BACK!!!! And they still kick major ass. That’s right, guys, Black Veil Brides has a new album coming out and they’re on tour now. Go see them. Make your ears bleed. This is … Continue Reading
Ovtlier “Set The World In Flames” What Doesn’t Kill You This is a great, hardhitting song by a tremendous band. In the same line as Black Sabbath’s “Hand Of Doom” and Steppenwolf’s “The Pusher”, Ovtlier takes a serious stand against … Continue Reading
El Jefazo “Rio Tinto” El Jefazo Do you love stoner mental? Then you are going to LOVE El Jefazo. These guys have this wonderful interplay of drums, bass, and guitar, heavy, grungy, dirty, perfect for tripping. Coming from the Peruvian … Continue Reading
VYCES “Nocturnal” (featuring Carla Harvey) Angels Sweet nightmares are made of these. This is one of the most powerful songs I’ve heard in a long time, and also one of the Frickin scariest, with the tree veins erupting on the … Continue Reading
Seven(Suns “Heathens” (TWENTY ONE PILOTS) For Hearts Still Beating This orchestra is so wonderful, but what is most amazing is not just their covers, which they really own, but on this upcoming album, they also perform their own composition, “Yama”, … Continue Reading
The Pleading “Why” Decay Can you be emotional and still kick ass? The Pleading say, HELL YES. This band from East Nashville/Clarksville, Tennessee, are emo as all get out and heavier than most bands out there. Comprised of J.Cease Owens … Continue Reading
Invidia “Feed The Fire” As The Sun Sleeps Not only is Invidia a great, true superband, they are also frightening intense. Their video for “Feed The Fire” is scary as all hell, it is that intense. But with their roots … Continue Reading
Smegmachine “Viaggio Del Non Sapiente” Tsunami Smegmachine is this great progressive, post-punk band from Italy comprised of Manuel Fracasetti vocals, Terzi Luca and Fabio Tiraboschi on guitars, Stefano Meli on bass and Nicola Sertori on drums. This band is one of … Continue Reading