Promoting metal as art and culture
Hex By Tom Bradshaw A three-headed audio beast; Creature is set to unleash. Hex is the debut release from the Birmingham, UK band, the first in a trilogy of EPs to be issued via Grey Ghost Records – working with revered UK producer Steve Sears (Gallows, Conjurer, Krokodil) and world-renowned illustrator Luke Preece (Metallica, Ghost,…
Evil Comes By Andreas Makela This lineup has been together since 2014-2015. We have struggled a lot with members coming and going but this lineup feels like a homecoming! We have a wonderful creative spirit between us so everything runs easily compared to the old days. The new album ‘Evil Comes’ was recorded by ourselves…
Midnight Terrors by Carlos Paolo Belmar Nieva “Paul”, Mau and Chaps Hellnite is a heavy metal project that was founded in 2010 in Mexico City by Paolo Belmar (vocals and guitar), Mauricio Salas (Drums) and Luis “Chaps” Mora (bass) originally playing covers of early influences, heavyweights including Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeth. In 2011 and 2012…
The Task Eternal By Matgaz & Julien Pras Matgaz: I’m Matgaz and I play the drums in the band since 2012. I started playing my instrument in the mid’ 90’s and quickly got into my first band, and get to play shows and record albums. This band was called Headcases we’ve been touring and making…
The Dun Ringill illustration features an amalgam of various horror scenarios, with several subtle and not-so-subtle references to the lyrics. The music pays homage to a lot of rock and doom history without being retro for the sake of it, and I wanted the same to be true for the cover. Since I perceived the…
Drøm By Jakob Johnsen Halshug is a three-piece punk/hardcore band with guitar, bass, drums and vocals. They have been active in the Copenhagen underground punk and rock scene since late 2012 when they made a self-titled demo-tape. Since then, they have released a 7” EP on D-Takt & Råpunk Records and three albums on Southern…
Der Abend Der Schwarzen Folklore By Caspar Brötzmann I was born in Wuppertal, a small town in Germany in the middle of hills, a river and woodland. I started to play the guitar when I was 14 years old, played in a few bands in my home city before I moved over to Berlin where…
Mourn the Southern Skies By Kyle Thomas The band started forming in late 1985, and I didn’t show up until spring of 1986. We were all just a bunch of metalhead/punk kids looking to write songs we wanted to hear. For some reason, people connected with it quickly, and then we released two albums in…
From Darkness to Light By Christian Rivel-Liljegren It is a long process where our guitar player CJ Grimmark came up with demos and ideas early 2017 for our new album ‘From Darkness To Light’ and then we work from there. So this process took over 2years from start to the end. On this album, CJ…
Treading Water By Dave Rudnik & Zak Holochwost Ever wonder what kind of noise two doomsdayer dads would make if left to their own devices? Let LIFES answer that question for you. Gravitating toward the most brutal elements of fastcore and power violence, LIFES is the sound of spit nails and scorched earth. We are…
Construire ou détruire by Nico Aleska is a french post-hardcore/screamo band with four members from Shall not Kill, Dead for a Minute, Esteban. Created in 2011 and after several line-up changes, the band gives quickly shows and many productions of EP and split. In 2016, the first LP Aleska is released and offer a new…
Tutor of the Dying By Wouter Dergez We are When Plagues Collide, a five-piece symphonic deathcore band from Belgium. We’ve been around since 2016 and have released two albums ‘Shrine of Hatred’ and ‘Tutor of the Dying’. Recently, we have released a new single called ‘Elizabeth’ featuring the amazing Misstiq. We use samples as musical…
Remove The Control By Fabio M.V. Based in a small town near Modena (Italy), Browbeat formed in early 1998 from the ashes of local Hardcore and Metal bands with the intention to create the most intense music possible joining angst, heaviness and aggressive vocals. Just after few months the band signs with top independent Italian…
Tales Of A Pathfinder by Samuele Faulisi Active from 2013, Atlas Pain is an epic-pagan metal band from Italy, forged by the speed of metal and the melancholy of cinematic movie scores. After the first album ‘What The Oak Left’, incredibly well-acclaimed by both critic and audience, the band released the new ‘Tales Of A…
Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone by Sylvaine Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Sylvaine’s music deals with the extreme range of emotions this human existence has to offer, as a result of being in constant conflict with oneself and struggling to adapt to this place we call our own. Being the sole member and creator behind the project, the music…
Blues For A Dying Planet By Dan Grim & Frida Eurenius Spiral Skies was formed in Stockholm, Sweden 2014 after singer Frida joined the already existing quartett. The band shortly understood that they had something special cooking and boiling in their 70’s rock n roll stew, and after writing and jamming songs they created a…
Pilgrims by Igor Hey, it’s Igor of Stoned Jesus here! Our most recent LP ‘Pilgrims’ is about the process of alienation while being on the road playing shows – basically how you’re constantly surrounded by people, but you want to interact with them less and less. It’s not like we’re playing 365 shows every year,…
Eroded by Peb Unceasingly, the music of SunStare is moving towards dark horizons. In 2015, ‘Under the eye of Utu’ is released over the world. A debut album defended on the French and Belgian scenes, in the company of bands like Celeste, Monolord, The Great Old Ones, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Sunnata, Cult of Occult,…
Unleash the Archers return with their new EP Explorers, to be released on 11th October 2019 via Napalm Records, only two years after having released their smashing album Apex. The EP will feature two cover songs. The first single to be released on 30th August 2019 is called “Northwest Passage”, originally written and performed by Stan Rogers. Unleash the…
Lux Tenebris By Michael Bertoldini ‘Lux Tenebris’ is the bands first recording after a period of hiatus that lasted around three years. It is a particularly important release for us since it somehow celebrates the overcome over several obstacles that came in our paths after ‘Agnus Dei’ came out. Sonically, ‘Lux Tenebris’ represents our will…