Static-X – Project Regeneration Vol. 1
After the high success of last years 20th Anniversary world tour the reunited Wisconsin Death Trip lineup of Static-X has returned with the first of two volumes celebrating the life and music of late singer/guitarist Wayne Static Project Regeneration Vol. 1. Fan reaction proved there’s still a demand for more evil twisted disco. The first volume offers 12 new tracks, with over 20 songs on both re...[Read More]
Places Around The Sun
Portuguese heavy rock four-piece Places Around The Sun release album three this summer. The self-titled effort spreads their eclectic sound further across the globe into new and familiar ears with a mixed caldron of Urge Overkill and Opeth featuring ‘70s psychedelic sludge with a bit of ‘60s hippie trippin’. They released debut Still Here in 2016, producing sophomore serving Pluto in 2018 from th...[Read More]
Trauma – A Heavy Rebirth
Resurrected thrash veterans Trauma will return to European stages in November bringing three records worth of material, from the early ‘80s to recent efforts with new material in the making. The band formed alongside thrash icons Exodus, Testament and other members of the first thrash family. Trauma’s come a long way since debut Scratch and Scream. Roughly 35 years later in 2013 they returned, rec...[Read More]
Dead Animal Assembly Plant – The Slaughterhouse Five
If you’ve never heard the legend of The Sweet Meats Slaughterhouse than vocalist/founder Zach Wager of Dead Animal Assembly Plant will introduce you to his morbid meat grinding creation. He’s the main string puller of the Oregon based five-piece, playing a mix of industrialized metal fitting for what abominations could come out of the cracked, conjured earth or the bitter cold abandoned wastelands...[Read More]
Close The Hatch – Modern Witchcraft
Dayton Ohio’s Close The Hatch has spent the last decade making unclassifiable noise reminiscent of the best and worst parts of a prolonged acid trip. They’ve conjoined the dark morphing soul of Pink Floyd with the darker composing creativity and personalities of the four inhabitants. Creating a mesmerizing opus of atmosphere, doom, experimental noise and ideas conjured by perverse influences. Sin...[Read More]
Evil Invaders – Surge of Insanity- Live in Antwerp 2018.
In October 2019 Belgium’s thrash speed blitzkrieg Evil Invaders released their live album and DVD Surge of Insanity – Live in Antwerp 2018. The DVD captured the 14 song hour plus show in their noise laden hometown annihilation. Filmed at Trix in September 2018, the performance captures the screaming adrenaline soaked set in its audio and visual brilliance. The band showed off skills and aura playi...[Read More]
Devilskin – Crimson Idols
The four piece band from Hamilton, New Zealand have spent the last decade ‘in the skin’ making a name for themselves with fellow countryman, spreading three studio albums and a live DVD to global ears. They’re no longer New Zealand’s best kept secret, after multiple European treks, the buzz has hit American shores. Their third studio creation Red has garnered major attention and positive feedback,...[Read More]
Raider – Guardian of the Fire
Canada has unleashed the newest thrash onslaught in Waterloo Ontario’s five-piece Raider. Their new full-length “Guardian of The Fire” is eight tracks of raw, old-school thrash modernized for today’s hungry headbanging youth holding the ingredients of their ‘80s and ‘90s forefathers. Perpetual speed, noise and a nuclear assault on the ears and senses was the goal attained. With first single “Boun...[Read More]
POE (Philosophy Of Evil) – Of Humanity and Other Odd Things
The unique creative process that would become POE came from the mind of vocalist Charles Wooldridge, which began churning in late 2012, going from ideas, to snippets to structured sound. Taking the inherit evil concepts produced, joining them with the dark, twisted narratives of Edgar Allen Poe creating an album rich in vintage horror, classic sci-fi and what a horror host program with a backgroun...[Read More]
Ignea – Beyond the Realms of Fire and Death
Ignea are a five-piece metal band from Kiev, Ukraine. They began under the moniker Parallax in 2013. After getting serious they discovered how many bands shared their namesake, making potential marketing impossible. “There was a moment when we got more serious and understood our music and the approach was changing. In terms of promotion it was a dead end,” vocalist/lyricist Helle Bogdanova says. “...[Read More]
Into Pandemonium – Darkest Rise
Straight from the depths and darkest corners of the Dayton, Ohio metal family comes the conjuring of 6-piece extreme band Into Pandemonium. They’ve used guitar strings and drum sticks to paint broad genre-crossing strokes tapping black, extreme and technical death with vocal experimentation beyond growls and screams. The young blood drips like a sacrificial chalice fermenting a new brew from a new...[Read More]
Annihilator – Ballistic, Sadistic
Annihilator has spent the last three-and-a-half decades churning out consistent, adrenalized thrash ready and worthy of any pit since the VHS and cassette days of ’84. Despite lineup changes, the name has been kept alive by Jeff Waters keeping vintage fans and gaining new ones. Ballistic Sadistic is the newest thrash serving from the Canadian veterans. It’s a fast, technical throwback to earlier w...[Read More]