We breathe laments for those who destroy without pity or mercy - there is no hope; anguish gnaws on the glistening nerve, the soft pulp of our desperate desire to live - our only understanding is for the bleak acceptance that what fixes its gaze upon us will be our end, our doom - a new life is lived in those few heartbeats left to us, a terrible, swirling journey - but the hammer blow, when it comes, is swift, measured - delivered with...
I think it's the vocals. The vocals and the drums. The vocals, the drums and the guitar tone. But really, it's the vocals. Doom metal, like grindcore, is an inherently restrictive genre and the question is always: what distinguishes this band from another? And, on this album, Conan have found that elusive set of criteria.
The foundation stone, the building block are those astonishing dual vocals (Jon Davis/Phil Coumbe) developed since 'Horseback Battlehammer'- calling out from beyond the mountains, from below the oceans, echoing through the arctic tundra and the searing African...
Incineration Festival takes place Saturday 10th May 2014 at The Garage in Highbury, London. The 1 day festival sees Taake head back over to our shores, and Anaal Nathrakh head back down south along with UK debut live performances from Carach Angren and Nargaroth. They join Malignancy, Aeternus, Amputated, Unfathomable Ruination, Slegest, De Profundis, Eastern Front, Noctem, Regurgitate Life, Primitive Graven Image and Premature Birth for what is sure to be one exhausting but AMAZING day of music.
The organisers are giving 2 tickets worth £25 each and all you have to do is...
UK thrash veterans Onslaught are set for a July 2014 headline tour with 6 dates across the UK. The band were also recently announced as the headliners for day 3 of 'Kin Hell Fest which takes place at Vox in Leeds over the May bank holiday weekend joining the likes of Napalm Death, Massacre, Anaal Nathrakh and many more. The bands headline tour takes place between 16th and 21st July 2014 and the dates are as follows:
16th July 2014 - O2 Academy 2, Newcastle
17th July 2014 - O2 ABC, Glasgow
18th July 2014...
A Storm of Light have announced a string of European dates which will see them finishing the tour with a few UK dates at the beginning of May. The New York based quartet were formed in 2008 by bassist Dominic Seita and former Neurosis and Red Sparrowes member Josh Graham. They will be joined by Swansea's finest, Hark, and also Mustard Gas and Roses (MGR), the ambient solo project created by Mike Gallagher of ISIS. They play the following dates...
Desertfest have continued the announcements for the 2014 lineup adding the experimental Japanese act Boris as headliners for the Electric Ballroom on the Sunday and Weedeater as the main support to headliners Kvelertak on the Saturday night. Boris hail from Tokyo and have gone through pretty much every genre known to man over the years since their inception in 1992 releasing...
This album could only have come out in the here and now. With metals black, heavy and, especially DOOM melded and spliced together in such bravura fashion, Bast have created something that inches the boundaries of Metal ever further.
Vocals shriek from icy wastelands and bellow across vast plains, guitars ooze, ripple and gallop like warm tar, icicles and majestic steeds while the rhythm section is both crisp and...
As mentioned on our facebook page earlier today Bolt Thrower have been announced as the headliners for Damnation Festival 2014 taking place at Leeds University Union on 1st November 2014.
Vocalist Karl Willetts said: "Well, we always knew if we were ever going to play a festival in the UK, it would be Damnation Festival; as we've only heard good things about it from mates who've been, and other bands who've played it."
"So we’re chuffed our only UK show of 2014 - and the foreseeable future - will be Damnation’s 10th Anniversary Bash… Grind on.”
This year marks the 10th anniversary...
Canadian trad Heavy Metal band Iron Kingdom are heading to Europe for a string of festival dates and will be popping briefly onto our shores in May 2014. Their self released second album "Gates Of Eternity" came out in April last year scoring 9/10 from Rock Hard (Germany) who said it "could prove to be one of the most important discoveries in 2013 for US metal lovers". It has recently been released on tape by Tridroid Records.
They will be supported on the tour by our very own Hundred who have just released their debut album "The Forest Kingdom Part 1" scoring an...
It's just one week to go until the first When Planets Collide show of 2014. The "Winter Warmer Weekender 2014" takes place at The Windmill in Brixton next weekend headlined by 2 bassist sludgy power violence noise bastards Palehorse on the Saturday and Sunday will see a headline slot by murkier than you electronic doom hey look it's a new genre can't be pigeonholed, Necro Deathmort. Yep we went there.
Tickets are priced...