Tag: Metal

Metal

Skillet

Loitered Lens: Skillet

13/01/2017

Leather, riffs, rock, tattoos, sweat, noise and notepaper - photos of Skillet at Koko...

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Babymetal Live at Wembley – The Unlikely but Apt Encapsulation of 2016

03/01/2017

Turbulent, divisive and very hotly debated - Babymetal very aptly encapsulate 2016 in their Live at Wembley release...

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Domkraft, End of Electricity

The End of Electricity (Domkraft)

01/01/2017

Simultaneously doomy and a little dotty, Domkraft freshen the formula with The End of Electricity...

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Vovoid

Loitered Lens: Vovoid

19/12/2016

Images and inspiration from Vovoid's dissonant sonic assault at the Underworld...

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Vovoid

The dissonant tritone thing is very particular: Vovoid (Interview)

08/12/2016

Vovoid's Denis 'Snake' Bélanger shares some nuggets (of wisdom) at Camden's Underworld...

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Vovoid

Entombed A.D. and Vovoid at Camden Underworld

06/12/2016

Stagediving without nets. Blood and floorslime mingle at the Underworld...

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Arkona, Vozrozhdenie

Clever, Inventive, Versatile… and Dull: Vozrozhdeniye (Arkona)

03/12/2016

Accomplished and precise, Arkona's rework of Vozrozhdeniye nevertheless fails to ignite...

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We just count on four and yell. Nico Elgstrand interview (Entombed A.D.)

01/12/2016

Catching up with Entombed A.D.'s Nico Elgstrand for Grieg, Mozart and some yelling....

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Rudra, Enemy of Duality

Death (and Rebirth) Metal: Enemy of Duality (Rudra)

23/11/2016

Avoiding kitsch and staying extreme, Rudra integrate south Asian influences into metal mayhem...

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Dark Tranquility

Make Yours a Melodic Death: Atoma (Dark Tranquility)

22/11/2016

Screams, shouts and growls. Dark Tranquility get expressive on Atoma...

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Ice Nine Kills

All of our blood was confiscated at customs: Ice Nine Kills (Interview)

18/11/2016

Boston metalcore horror freaks Ice Nine Kills explain everything...

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The Answer, Solas

Looking for Answers. Finding them. Solas (The Answer)

17/11/2016

New approaches from The Answer result in a fresh and fascinating hard rock album...

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Hard Core, Waffle Soles: Ice Nine Kills at Satan’s Hollow

11/11/2016

An overdue UK debut for post-hardcore icons Ice Nine Kills at Satan's Hollow...

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Mirroring the Zeitgeist with Doom, Death and Gothic Gloom

10/11/2016

Convenience death metal, giant wicker cocks. If politics has gone weird, why shouldn't music? Review of Gatecreeper and Abysmal Grief albums...

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King Parrot

I ballroom danced in Norwich the other night: King Parrot (Interview)

09/11/2016

Extreme metal never smelled so bad. King Parrot's Matthew Young on dreams, dancing and digestion....

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Swedish Heavy Metal Monday Mashup

07/11/2016

HammerFall and Civil War prove there's more sludgy grind to Sweden than Ikea's meatballs...

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Loitered Lens: The Lounge Kittens

06/11/2016

Photos from a rousing 100 Club performance by The Lounge Kittens...

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A Refined and Technical Stitch Up: Autopsy (Coroner)

03/11/2016

Reanimating the corpse of a tech metal troupe who should have been HUGE...

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kargeras

Kargeras Returns From The Land of the Almost Ignored (Root)

28/10/2016

Czech dark metal act Root are a band you haven’t heard of, but should have...

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Red Fang, David Sullivan

We got to drive a car and smash into things. (Red Fang, Interview)

27/10/2016

Red Fang’s guitarist, David Sullivan, insists it's not ALL debauched Valhalla hedonism...

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akercocke

Blackened Death, Beaten Skins: Akercocke at Manchester Academy

24/10/2016

Untramelled aggression, windmill headbanging, expensive drinks. A Sunday night with Akercocke...

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Swans

Mastery in Sound: Swans (Live at Islington Assembly)

22/10/2016

A resounding farewell to a visceral lineup, Swans configure an unparalleled sonic onslaught...

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Grinds ‘n’ Grudges: Only Ghosts (Red Fang)

13/10/2016

Grunge, grind, riffs, aggression and beautifully stupid videos. Red Fang return....

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The Violent Sleep of Reason

The Violent Sleep of Reason (Meshuggah)

09/10/2016

Relentlessly organic, Meshuggah plough new musical folds with their eighth album...

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Asphyx

Killer Cocktail: Incoming Death (Asphyx)

08/10/2016

Fusing doom and death, and even a touch of thrash, Asphyx get the balance spot-on...

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Sludging Up the Lady: Red Fang @ Koko (London)

05/10/2016

Groovier than their norm, Red Fang give an early taster of their new album at Koko...

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If it Ain’t Broke, Don´t Touch(é) It! (Touché Amoré)

04/10/2016

Artistic development from out of musical diaspora, Stage Four consolidates Touche Amore´s approach...

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Into the Catacomb Abyss (Unearthed Elf)

01/10/2016

Epic without being overblown, Unearthed Elf plunders the dungeon...

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Sleep Not Before the Winter’s Gate (Insomnium)

27/09/2016

Epic and ambitious melodic death metal from Finland's Insomnium...

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Nu Gods for Old: Sumerian Alliance Tour (Born of Osiris/Veil of Maya)

24/09/2016

Black Crown Initiate, Volumes, Veil of Maya and Born of Osiris on the Sumerian Alliance Tour...

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