hAND are back and release their new album ‘Kintsugi’ on Monday 3rd November through Brutal Elite. Although hAND can be loosely described as a Prog band, when you peel back the aural layers, you’ll find a definitive edge that… Read More ›
Paradise Lost
Radium Valley – Tales From The Apocalypse
Standing impressively tall with an album and sound which plays like a mix of Rammstein, Poets Of the Fall, and Type O Negative yet emerges as something richly flavoursome in its originality; French metallers Radium Valley provide a seriously compelling… Read More ›
Bjarm – Imminence
Listening to Imminence, the debut album from Russian symphonic death/black metallers Bjarm, is like standing in the middle of two separate but merging dramatic climates. Walking the line between beauty and savagery, both extremes embracing each other for a tumultuous… Read More ›
Deathwhite – Ethereal
Looking for something intriguing with a fresh breath but still holding that raw edge which suggests that impressive early days have the potential to lead to major encounters? Then try checking out the Ethereal EP from US dark melodic metallers… Read More ›
Secrets and exposures: an interview with Tricore/An Entire Legion
More a secret than they should and deserve to be, UK metallers Tricore has been one of the most inventive and exhilarating bands within the British metal underground scene for close to a decade. With its member’s sister project An… Read More ›
Alexanred – Rest After Result
Upon covering Non-Stop Non-Stop, the debut single from industrial metallers Alexanred near the end of last year, we admitted though the song strenuously impressed it was too early to make a judgement of the band as much as the potential… Read More ›
Alexanred – Non-Stop Non-Stop
Just in case in the Christmas rush you missed the release of the debut single from Alexanred, we thought we would give you a nudge to one contagiously addictive track. Non-Stop Non-Stop is pure industrial virulence, a pulsating infection soaked… Read More ›
End Of Green – The Painstream
There is a familiarity to The Painstream, the new album from German metallers End Of Green, which for anyone else would more than likely go down as a negative but such the at times anthemic and certainly generally infectious charm… Read More ›
Graveyard Of Souls – Shadows of Life
The debut album from Spanish metallers Graveyard Of Souls is an intensive and powerful experience which takes the listener on a journey through at times exhausting but perpetually enthralling melodic death and doom soundscapes. Shadows of Life certainly makes you… Read More ›
Vreid: Welcome Farewell
Following up their immense 2011 album V, Norwegian melodic black metallers Vreid have in Welcome Farewell unleashed another impressive and enthralling encounter. Whether it is the equal of its stunning predecessor is debatable but certainly the… Read More ›
The RingMaster Review 