Prominent steampunks The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing have found themselves up against record label Goliaths EMI in a trademark battle over the title of their 2010 debut ‘Now That’s What I Call Steam Punk! Volume 1′. As owners of the compilation franchise ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ EMI are pressuring the act to rebrand their early release. [...]

Sludge metal monsters Mastodon have just released their brand new animated video, and let us say, it’s one hell of a trip. The newly premiered video for the Atlanta based bands track ‘Dry Bone Valley’ is a mix of live action and animated footage directed by fine artist Tim Biskup, that dazzles and confuses. You could quite honestly call this video a psychedelic rainbow nightmare[...]

Techno-punks Junkie Kut dropped their début single ‘Pixel Picture’ on the 25th November. Under the heavy beat of their high bpm rain, the band blend coarse electronic noise with guitars to create something brutal and strewn together in keeping with a sort of post apocalyptic cyberpunk attitude. Despite a clunky name ‘Pixel Picture’ has sticking power and manages to carve something distinctive out of its rhythmic noise. [...]

Once again the beta gates open for the console testing of Gotham City Impostors. While the public were plenty impressed by their last peek at the DC Comics franchise inspired street skirmish title, the studio has set about tweaking, fine tuning and balancing the madcap mechanics of this unconventional multi-player game. Any patched alterations aside, the game [...]

Teesside hardcore upstarts Taller Than Trees are preparing to make a mark on the northern scene. Early glimpses show the five piece as an act with a sound in the vein of Comeback Kid with catchier riffs and in a discernibly more English flavour. The quintet features Paul Gent on vocals, James Spence as drummer, Johnny Reardon and Craig Brudenell on guitars with Ben Leighton on bass.[...]

Politely nagging away despite my better judgement is a morbid curiosity in the upcoming Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title Lollipop Chainsaw. Every bit as bitter-sweet and bloody as its title this slice em up, school-girl, grindhouse spectacle fighter comes from the brilliantly twisted minds of Suda51 (No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned, Killer7), James Gunn [...]

The Deftones‘ Chino Moreno’s experimental new band ‘†††‘, or ‘Crosses’ for those of us who prefer syllables to symbols release their second EP, ‘††’ on January 24th. The acts anticipated follow up release to what Forbes.com dubbed one of the best free albums of 2011 comes as the band prepare for a series of live dates in their native California.
††† are giving away a sneak sample of their unpronounceables[...]

The dust has settled and all 14 new acts on the Download bill have been confirmed. The slightly over eager Soundgarden upstaged the second wave of announcements by releasing the latest version of the event’s official poster over 4 hours early for one brief moment, which is all the time you need on the internet for the news to spread everywhere. Since then
[...]