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Documenting The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris)

02/09/2015

LA’s early hardcore punk, eighties hair metal and the gutter-punk scene, lovingly filmed by Penelope Spheeris...

They’re still here, but have they still got it? (Motörhead)

30/08/2015

Motörhead : With their 22nd album Bad Magic, have the legends still got it?...

An uncompromising sonic attack: Damnation Festival

29/08/2015

2015 promises to be an 11th installment of Damnation Festival to remember. Leeds November 7th 2015...

Loitered Lens: Ramblin’ Man Fair

23/08/2015

Photos from Ramblin' Man Fair. Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July 2015, Maidstone, Kent...

Shit music vs. Shamanic hardware with Author & Punisher

18/08/2015

I think one of the main things destroying our country right now is the boredom of white people. We're bored and depressed so we collect guns and aim them at immigrants....

Industrial, metallic and alienating, Melk En Honing (Author & Punisher)

16/08/2015

Similar in both subject matter and delivery to Godflesh, Ministry and Killing Joke, you'd expect this to be neither an immediate nor an uplifting experience. However.... ...

Thundering Underdogs and Bubblegum Cool (Skyforger Interview)

28/07/2015

When we write our songs, we don’t really care if the riff is heavy metal, thrash or death or black metal or whatever, we just care if it sounds good. Skyforger interview...

Monthly Metal and Melancholy Menace : Cradle of Filth, Orchid….

23/07/2015

This is probably Cradle of Filth 's best album in a while, being neither immediately accessible (and so disposable) or opaquely impenetrable (and so rubbish)....

Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

17/07/2015

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens!...

3 Weeks to Go! Countdown to Bloodstock!

15/07/2015

BLOODSTOCK HQ is a-buzz with activity with just over three weeks to go!...

Coma Ecliptic : a Progressive Metal Monster

15/07/2015

There is more than one number that feels as though it contains a whole concept album's worth of music in seven or eight minutes....

Bringing Brutal Deathgrind to a Bucolic Britain (Brujeria)

26/06/2015

It is said that this unit of banditos is made up of Satanic drug lords who came together to make music on Brujerizmo - their own brand of brutal 'machete metal'....

A Horror-rockin Hallowee’n. Alice Cooper UK Dates

25/06/2015

The Alice Cooper show returns to the UK for two special nights at Plymouth Pavilions (Oct 29) and Swindon Oasis (Oct 30) with blood, guts, gore and some of the greatest rock and roll music in...

Secret Gardens, Crests of Darkness and Goblin Metal.

11/06/2015

No filler. A roundup from the bleak plains of heavy metal, featuring Nekrogoblikon, Ecnephias, Crest of Darknessm Secrets of the Sky and Angra...

Amenra and Sólstafir Join Damnation Festival 2015

31/05/2015

Sólstafir will be the first band in Damnation history to play the festival in two consecutive years...

A Solid day of Metal Misbehaviour : Impericon Festival

14/05/2015

If you aren’t familiar with Manchester Academy, it’s like a music-y Hogwarts… every time you visit, it’s sprouted a few new performance spaces and the butterbeer’s gone up another six quid....

Jam in the middle of Wasp Season. Live Metal [Skyforger]

12/05/2015

Meanwhile, the other venue in the side street had a light tank parked outside it. This was the metaller equivalent of a large open jar of jam in the middle of Wasp Season....

If Blastbeats could Kill : [Throes]

11/05/2015

Throes have crafted this album with meticulous attention to texture, a welcome relief in a genre that can make the error of equating creativity with technical wizardry. ...

Far below the Sturgeon threshold [Eschaton]

07/05/2015

There is evidence of some technical instrumental ability here and there, but they're failing to do anything worthwhile with those chops....

Pre Election Metal Meanderings [Arcturus] [Skyforger] [Plage]

04/05/2015

What more could you want from a black metal album? Arson? Murder? Goat-shagging???...

Girls can growl! [Devilskin]

30/04/2015

Hugs were had, drinks spilled and firm handshakes shook....

Death Metal is a Serious Business [Dawn of Azazel]

29/04/2015

The relentless hammering and visceral roars will keep their core audience happy – but it leaves you wondering what they'd come up with if they let go of their single-minded obsession with brutality...

Riffs thick enough to float a ship [Rongeur]

20/04/2015

Rongeur's sparse instrumentation gives the music room to breathe...

A folksy bagpipe-led interlude unexpectedly sweeps in [Skyforger]

17/04/2015

Their use of a jaw harp is perhaps unique in metal....

System of a Down Rage Against Armenian Genocide

10/04/2015

So all-encompassing was this attempt to exterminate a nation that the term “genocide” was invented...

Bloodstock 2015 Updates and Club Nights tour

09/04/2015

Bloodstock 2015 strengthens its lineup with seven more bands, and announces a slew of club nights to warm up the metal glands...

A more melodic variation on the metal theme [Karnivool]

05/04/2015

Metal is mostly preaching to the converted, but the congregation at London's Roundhouse was definitely devout and ecstatic....

Ripping into the Islington night [Night Ranger]

29/03/2015

Hardcore fans packed out the venue whilst the band hit the stage with a mighty explosion of raw power. Night Ranger...

Despair, evil, murder and suicide. Monthly Metal Medley

25/03/2015

This is like rolling a natural 20 in a particularly bleak game of D&D. You’ve lucked out, and the Gods do smile upon thee, which is certainly a step up from most weeks when it’s more like an...