music INTERVIEW: OneMetal Talks to Undersmile
Danny Heaton brings you the largely unedited highlights of his recent in-person and email-based conversations with Oxfordshire-based doom/sludge quartet Undersmile.
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music INTERVIEW: OneMetal talks to The Algorithm’s Rémi Gallego and Mike Malyan
Just before their incredible gig at the Surya, Nicholas Cleeve sat down with The Algorithm’s Rémi Gallego and Mike Malyan for a quick chat about their musical influences and current gaming obsessions.
music ARTICLE: Round-Up: Black Metal
Kit Rathenar checks in with a few of black metal’s darkest lights to uncover some quality releases that we didn’t manage to review at the time, courtesy of Setherial, Vreid, Hellsaw, Enthroned, Saille and Kampfar.
music NEWS: Round-Up: Progressive Death Metal
Phil Whitehouse casts judgment on a selection of releases from the brainier, widdlier end of the death metal spectrum, courtesy of Over Your Threshold, Sentence, Okular, Chosen and Supuration.
music LIVE REVIEW: Kvelertak, El Doom & the Born Electric & Truckfighters @ Electric Ballroom, Camden – 14/03/13
Mike flouts his restraining order and continues to stalk Kvelertak, this time catching them as they play their biggest UK headline show to date, at Camden’s Electric Ballroom.
music INTERVIEW: OneMetal talks to Scar Symmetry’s Per Nilsson
Nicholas Cleeve discussion with Scar Symmetry guitarist Per Nilsson about the band’s upcoming sixth album ends up leading to the proposal of the most metal cooking show ever concieved…
music LIVE REVIEW: Hammerfest V: Saturday
Nursing something of a hangover from the night before, OneMetal’s fearless scribe bravely advances to do battle on the Saturday of Hammerfest.
music ARTICLE: Hammerfest V: Thursday and Friday
After a epic journey through the mountains, OneMetal arrive at Wales for Metal Hammer’s fifth festival outing. Here’s what Jack Traveller made of the first day.
music ARTICLE: Festival Preview: ‘Kin Hell Fest 2 – Ones to Watch
Danny Heaton and Phil Whitehouse take you through some of the bands they’re looking forward to seeing at ‘Kin Hell Fest 2 at the Templeworks in Leeds, a three-day festival to be held from the 26th to the 28th of April for the wallet-pleasing sum of £35.
music ARTICLE: Round-Up: Progressive Metal
Nicholas Cleeve takes a look at a diverse bunch of prog metal albums that slipped under our radar when they were first released. In yet another edition of OneMetal Round-Up, we take a look at the work of Barren Earth, Despite Exile, Haken, MaYaN and Mirrormaze
music INTERVIEW: OneMetal talks to Aeon Zen’s Rich Hinks
Nicholas Cleeve has a word with Aeon Zen’s bassist about their new album and upcoming plans for the summer festival season while learning a valuable lesson about battery life…
music ARTICLE: Round-up: Grindcore and Powerviolence
Mike Perry plumbs the depths of the OneMetal album review queue to cast a critical ear over a handful of grindcore and powerviolence records that passed us by the first time round.
music ARTICLE: Round-Up: Hardcore
Ross Jenner gives us a look back at some of the Hardcore releases that fell under the radar in recent times in another OneMetal Round-Up. We highlight records from Balaclava, Bloodiest, Primitive Weapons, The Catharsis, and The Hardest Season.
music ARTICLE: Round-Up: Dark and Heavy Doom Metal
Oliver Longden trawls through the darker, danker, more miserable climes of the OneMetal review queue to bring you this round-up of releases by doom metallers A Tree of Signs, Alunah, Clamfight, XII Boar and Pombagira.
music INTERVIEW: OneMetal talks to The Sorrow’s Tobias Schädler
Ryan Neal chats to Austrian melodic death metallers The Sorrow’s bassist Tobias Schädler about their latest album ‘Misery Escape’, their touring plans, and moustaches.
music INTERVIEW: OneMetal talks to October File’s Ben Hollyer
After only four minutes of interrogation Nicholas Cleeve managed to get Ben to admit which well-known vocalist the band has been courting to make an appearance on their new album. Find out inside, along with juicy snippets about the band’s recently released live DVD.
music INTERVIEW: OneMetal talks to Stratovarius’ Timo Kotipelto
With the release date for Stratovarius’ new album rapidly approaching, Nicholas Cleeve had a little sit down with vocalist Timo Kotipelto.
game NEWS: Sony’s Big Announcement And The Bitter Taste Of Disappointment.
OneMetal’s latest writer Sarah Dyer calls shenanigans on Sony’s big PlayStation 4 announcement, and why it failed to live up to the hype.
music LIVE REVIEW: October File, Cold In Berlin and Human Wave Attack @ Upstairs at The Garage, London – 26/1/13
We sent Nicholas Cleeve off to sunny Highbury to see October File on the eve of the release of their new live album ‘Renditions in Juxtaposition’. Could the post-punk stalwarts live up to the high standards of their Bloodstock set?
music LIVE REVIEW: Orange Goblin, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, The Earls of Mars & Eyes of the Raven @ The Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton – 06/02/2013
Chris Ward stops watching trashy movies for a bit and travels to Wolverhampton to catch doom merchants Orange Goblin and their numerous support bands.