So you already know what our favourite metal covers are, but which are the worst? Ryan Neal lost his mind sitting through all of these to bring you this informative and objectively accurate list.
We look under the hood of sci-fi horror Super Hybrid. Can a film about a shapeshifting alien car be as bad as it sounds? Buckle up because this is going to be one bumpy ride.
The trailers might have made The Grey look like two hours of Liam Neeson bare-fist fighting wolves, but Leight Forgie finds a film of surprising depth and tension.
Sci fi, fantasy and horror festival Alt.Fiction returns once again, with a better and learner program, as well as a new venue. Peter Allison speaks to Alt.Fiction organiser Adele to learn more.
Peter Allison brings news of an earth-shattering event in the history of the universe. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy radio-play is read by the original cast for the first time it’s initial recording.
With a potential SikTh reunion looking more and more likely, we should enjoy Graham ‘Pin’ Pinney’s new band Aliases as much as possible; and their debut ‘Safer Than Reality’ is a good place to start.
Nociceptor give us their latest EP Among Insects in an attempt to give a new approach to the progressive metal genre. Did it work?
Risk meets Scrabble in Quarrel. Does wordplay and dominating all mankind mix? Ryan Scully finds out.
First person action-puzzle game designed by Kim Swift who was formerly lead designer on Portal. With cool crazy science and physics based puzzles there is more than a little similarity between Quantum Conundrum and Portal; and thats no bad thing.
Danny Heaton gets dealt into the game with ‘Full Deck?’, the latest EP from Leeds punksters, Acid Drop.
Just before the London date of Asking Alexandria’s January tour, we sat down with frontman Danny Worsnop to ask him a bit about touring, newest release Stepped Up & Scratched and find out what the best part of being a rock star really is (it’s exactly what you think it is).
British metalcore darlings return to these shores in a much bigger venue to a much bigger crowd and prove they’re not just rock tossers with a fondness for boobs and cocaine.
Welsh trio Nexus Inferus uncloak their debut album of ‘future extreme metal’, A Vision of the Final Earth. Phil Whitehouse sets his headphones to ‘Stunned’.
A bit of amazingly good news causes our Rob McAuslan to get even more excited about this year’s Hellfest.
Death metal titans Aborted have unleashed their seventh album. Luke Morton is still in the foetal position.
Intrepid gorehound Chris Ward expects the worst from Hostel Part III and gets a surprise… but only a small one.
Dr Gough re-assembles what remains of his stomach to inspect Tom Six’s sequel to The Human Centipede. Does the notorious premise have the legs for a second instalment?
Ryan Neal dons his three-quarter lengths and some florescent face paint and heads down-under for the metalcore party. But something’s missing…
Following their set at 2011′s Damnation Festival in Leeds, Daniel Heaton caught up with guitarist Paul McGuire and drummer Alan ‘McDibet’ McDonald from death metal miscreants Cerebral Bore for a chat about learning from adversity, properly-structured slam and the plight of the professional grape-peeler.
Daniel Heaton checks out ‘Forever Abomination’ – the latest platter of blackened thrash metal from Skeletonwitch.