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Dream Theater Reveal Album Cover For The Astonishing
Why It’s Hard For Your Favourite Band to Tour Internationally
Consequences of Sound have published a lengthy article as to why bands struggle with touring worldwide – it’s a pretty morbid outlook on the reality of touring, but it is a very interesting read for those who want to know why bands cancel are often forced to cancel visits.
A Damnation Interview With : Martin And Paul (Asphyx)
Marking yet another first this year for The Metalist we attended our first ever Damnation. Among enjoying the fantastic live acts we were able to speak to some of the band’s performing in Leeds hallowed Union. Very kindly taking the time out of their incredibly busy schedules up first is Asphyx!
Slayer Announced As Final Headliner for Bloodstock 2016
Finishing up another fantastic line up we shall see the Thrash Legends headline at this year’s coming Bloodstock Festival.
Slayer, Testament and Carcass To Tour America in 2016
Having just wrapped up their incredibly diverse Deathcrusher tour, Carcass will be heading over stateside to join Thrash Metal legends.
Album of The Year Christmas Countdown Day One : Jakub Zytecki – Wishful Lotus Proof
As the year begins to come to an end so comes the time for festive fun, coming together and celebrating the year but most importantly Metal. And so as with almost every Metalhead in the world we begin our countdown of some of our favourite albums of 2015.
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Announce First of Four EP’s
Everyone’s favourite grinders Agoraphobic Nosebleed have announced that they shall be taking the Down route and instead of releasing an album will be issuing a series of EP’s.
Album Review : Culture Killer – Throes Of Mankind
Moving further and further into the future Hardcore itself as a genre is largely somewhat of a psseé subject. Having the classic Biohazard’s, Terror’s and Agnostic Front‘s is all well and good but there can only be a finite amount of music being put out. Not to mention the genre is a fairly simple affair leading to many of the band’s albums sounding samey. Enter the year of 2015 where it seems that Hardcore is getting a serious rethink, among the likes of Twitching Tongues another leader to drag Hardcore kicking and screaming through the broken glass of Metal is Culture Killer.