Brick-Force brings together brutality and blocks, which personally takes me back to my halcyon days of Lego and action figures locked in eternal elaborate combat. Brick Force builds on the many blocky shooters that have gone before to give us a cube filled cross platform sand-box gaming environment like no other. I say “no other”, but it would be easy to throw around phrases like Minecraft meets[...]

Some would say hardcore rules the roost in the Teesside club gig circuit. As a result there’s plenty of savage competition to stand at the peak. Tonight’s four band bill at Bad Medicine Rock Club of Climate Of Fear, Heavy Lies The Crown, All At Sea and Taller Than Trees is loaded with rabid, heavier than heavy hardcore bands. The newest of the four and first up, Taller Than Trees make their début [...]

Javelynn‘s debut release ‘Chimaera At Heart’ makes glorious use of frontwoman and former Ashbury Heights singer Yaz’s vocals which smoothly change gears from track to track. Moving from melodic and soulful, to bubblegum electro pop and even adding a bit more of a rock bite at times her voice is easily the most lasting impression to come from this album. That being said, the subtle and effective use of guitar gives [...]

Download are now one short of the big four as 14 new bands are added to their 2012 bill. Megadeth immediately leaped out of their latest release, joining fellow thrash heroes Metallica and metal gods Anthrax on what’s shaping up to be quite a stellar line up across the June 8-10th weekend. Joining Mustaine’s metal metal mongers in the latest 14 are Slash featuring Miles Kennedy, Rise Against, Steel Panther and many more[...]

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 [...]