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The art of storytelling is hard to master, weaving a web of red herrings and luring the listener in with intrigue is not an easy talent to have. On their eleventh album our Earth Rockers announce their return but not all is quite as it seems, well why don’t we just start at the beginnin’ now…
As the final breezes of summer begin to come to a close we welcome times where cold governs. Leaves turn from their youthful green to their wise brown. Last week we saw a co-headliner of the progressive sort and now as the days begin to darken earlier and dawn comes later we are introduced back to those most frosty of genres, Black Metal. Though not only about our frost bitten fast paced riffing but also aiming to supply riffs in their thousands we see Grand Magus combine their efforts with tiitans Enslaved.
The next chapter in the epic that is Scottish power metal has been written, and Dundee is under threat again…it’s time to travel to ‘Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards‘.
Decapitated stunned the world with their release ‘Blood Mantra‘ over a year ago, and we got to interview the maestro who made it all, Vogg. We ask a few questions about the change in sound with the album, life on the road, and just how he writes his brilliantly complex music.
Poised to release their brand new album Abysmal, The Black Dahlia Murder have well and truly become one of the Death Metal elite. With the new album tackling uncharted territory for the band, along with reminding us just how reliantly devastating the band can be we were able to speak to macabre linguist Trevor Strnad. Speaking of Abysmal’s theme’s along the album featuring a small track by track description, along with what it was like for the band to perform out of their comfort zone on the Warped Tour and some good ol’ fashioned Death Metal. Keep an ear out for an announcement of some European tour dates coming in January!
The capital date, where both bands and fans have a huge anticipation that can turn even the most mundane of Tuesday nights into the stuff of legend. Tending to miss out on some of the excellent tours that have been making their way through the US, the UK sometimes loses out but not this time. Coming together for an absolutely devastating double header both Nile and Suffocation have banded together to deliver some of the most devastating tours in recent memory. Nevertheless before the two Death Metal demi gods are set to appear we were able to check out Blood Truth.
Metal itself as a genre is one that either you love or you hate, made up of countless subgenres that Metal heads often get into heated arugments about daily, however it seems that there is one unifying element of Metal. Used as a subject in the BBC’s Mastermind series three times along with being the first international band ever to play India,owning their very own Jumbo Jet and having one of the most iconic mascots in the entertainment history Iron Maiden are in every sense of the word visionary.
After a series of fantastic releases that have graced the last few years, it’s hard to see what Amorphis have left to offer…we review their latest effort ‘Under The Red Cloud‘ to see what’s left in the tank!