The ever controversial anti-human metal act The Way Of Purity have released the first glimpses at new album Equate with both the intensely mathematical cover art and a streaming sneak peak at the music itself. Currently available to preview on the bands official webpage and social streaming platform Soundcloud, the track titled ‘Artwork Of Nature’ is unrelenting growling doomcore [...]

Ethereal guitar Goth traditionalists The Death Notes are just over one short week away from the pinnacle of the Goth touring calendar with a date on the Saturday of this Novembers Whitby Goth Weekend. The bands position on the bill at the festival sees the act in the company of such scene luminaries as Abney Park, Devilish Presley, Berlin Black, Rhombus and Voltaire. [...]

English progressive death metal band Xenosis have signed a deal with Wormholedeath/Aural Music Group. The band are due to enter MathLab Studio in Prato, Italy early 2012 with producer Jonathan Mazzeo (The Way Of Purity, Mechanical God Creation) to work on their début album titled ‘Of Chaos & Turmoil’. Due for release in spring 2012 via Wormholedeath, and distributed world-wide through[...]

French ‘avant garde metal’ act Akphaezya have signed a deal with Aural Music Group sublabel Code 666. Established in 2002 the band formed to create music without boundaries releasing, their demo ‘Akphaezya – Anthology II: Links from the Dead Trinity’ in 2004, which was re-released later in 2008 by Ascendance/Candelight Records to worldwide critical acclaim. Guitarist Stephan H. commented on the new deal saying “We are very proud [...]

Following the immense phenomenon of ‘The Big Four’ live performances of recent years and their crowning moment, a full stage, full line up performance of Diamond Head’s ‘Am I Evil?’ it’s easy to forget where all the inspiration came from. As one of the greatest bands to emerge from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Diamond Head never quite acheived the same heights as some of their peers [...]

Maynard James Keenan and his various Puscifer collaborators have all donned their most hill-billy of outfits for their new live action video ‘Conditions Of My Parole’. Directed by the group and Mike King in Jerome, Arizona the title track for the album sees Maynard take on the role of Billy D with Mr. Show actress Laura Milligan as Hildy Berger.
Now streaming on RollingStone.com, the [...]

This is the third album from the American metalcore crew Blessthefall. Having not been terribly au fait with their previous output, I am in a good position to review this record without any prior expectations. Plus, after running out of minutes on my free Spotify account by listening to anything Metallica put out in the 80’s to erase “Lulu” from my memory, it’s nice to listen to something new and modern that isn’t awful. [...]

Recent weeks have seen the announcement of the last few bands for Resistanz’s 2012 lineup fleshing out the already stellar bill. The addition of the 15th and final band Grendel to the bill is simply the icing on the cake for an event that has already reached a competitive international standard for quality in only its second year running.
The full band billing for the event now includes; Icon Of Coil, Grendel, Nachtmahr, Rotersand [...]