This December British underground heroes Earthtone9 return for a short run of dates across the UK. Support for these dates comes from progressive metallers Illuminatus with Order Of Voices also turning up for the home town gig in Leeds. This second wave of dates comes following an astonishing response to the bands brief tour earlier this year.
If you’re looking for something to get you in the mood for these dates[...]

To celebrate the release of their brand new album ‘Clockwork Udder’ via NoiseArt Records Milking The Goatmachine have made 2 new videos available: ‘More Humour Than Human’ and ‘Human Domestication‘. The megalomaniacal goat themed mayhem of ‘Clockwork Udder’ is out now via NoiseArt Records, with a limited digi pak edition also available including 4 bonus [...]

The UK “Future Extreme Metal” act, Nexus Inferis; winners of the 2011 Rock The Nation award, have released their first studio sneak peek video. The official ‘Making Of The Album’ Part 1 follows the band through the recording of their upcoming full length release ‘A Vision Of The Final Earth’ giving an exclusive behind the scenes look at the post-apocalyptic experience that is Nexus Inferis.[...]

Calling All Astronauts début single ‘Someone Like You’ is a 4 track kaleidoscope of variation. The skeleton for all these mixes, the singles lead track has a charming classic goth sound with a curious tinny pulsing effect wrapping this appropriately spacey song. Lyrically ‘Someone Like You’ is defiantly individual with its hook “I don’t wanna be. I will never be. I don’t wanna be someone like you” [...]

Metsatöll, the four-piece epic-metal outfit from Estonia, have confirmed the release of their fifth studio album, ‘Ulg’ as December 5th 2011 via Spinefarm Records.
The sound of ‘Ulg’ or ‘The Howl’ comes from the forests of southern Estonia. Recorded from top to tail with legendary Finnish sound engineer Mikko Karmila (who has worked with Children Of Bodom and Nightwish[...]

Trollfest have begun recording their fifth full-length album “Brumlebassen”. The bands unconventional sound combines local folk sounds from their native Norway and those from the Balkans, with melodies that could originate anywhere from the Latino countries to the Middle East, topped off with a hefty dose of metal and humour to form their own genre; “True [...]

Flesh Eating Foundation’s latest release ‘So Yeah’ is the sound of a man at breaking point, angry and bitter, expertly executed with the old school gargled industrial drawls of Jon E. Smoke and The Juddaman. The songs most powerful lyric “So Yeah. I’m angry. I’m bitter too. I want to kick some arse and I’m going to” is simultaneously a declaration, a threat and deliciously English.[...]

Lords Of Acid’s latest single Little Mighty Rabbit goes beyond an ode to one of the most popular sex toys on the market to become an anthem of sheer sexual indulgence. As the lead single off the EP of the same name and touting a rather graphic music video(NSFW) in its wake that can only really be described with the phrase ‘as close to porn as you can get on YouTube’ all that can be said is [...]