The Black Progressive combo Hail Spirit Noir are due to release their debut album titled ‘Pneuma’, on March 5th, 2012 following their recent signing to the Aural Music Group sub label code666. The album comes wrapped in the demonic artwork provided by the American visionary painter Jesse Peper (In Solitude). Founded in Thessaloniki, Greece in2010 by Haris and Theoharis [...]

The latest “observation” by Opeth always brings around an air of excitement for me. Having been witness to their brand of progressive death metal since 2005’s “Ghost Reveries”, I mercilessly scoured their back catalogue to discover one of the most interesting, prolific and batshit crazy bands to ever exist. Never putting themselves in one particular corner, Opeth have dabbled in every genre imaginable since 1994’s “Orchid” album

In the past fortnight there have been a few significant releases of non headliner bands in this years Download festival line up, with many being quite big names and others being curious surprises. Returning to the festival are bands like Down and Killswitch Engage, Killswitch having played Download a number of times before with Down [...]