9 bands at the underworld, including famed brutalists Decrepit Birth, Cattle Decapitation, a band OneMetal’s death metal specialists can’t get enough of and headlined by legends Cryptopsy? Well, it would be rude not to. Jack Traveller boldly goes forth.
Nicholas Cleeve reports back on a fun-filled evening of confusing time signatures and guitars with too many strings, headlined by the truly inimitable electronics focused The Algorithm.
Henry Fogarty finds that punk is far more than a four-letter word.
Nicholas Cleeve returns to Islington to be sadly let down by Swedish melodic death metallers Scar Symmetry.
Nursing something of a hangover from the night before, OneMetal’s fearless scribe bravely advances to do battle on the Saturday of Hammerfest.
Dave Fensome takes in a triumphant set by alternative metal legends and nu-metal survivors Deftones at the Brixton Academy.
Dave Fensome crosses the Atlantic to catch reunited post-hardcore pioneers Quicksand in Chicago.
Jack Traveller (words) and Phil Whitehouse (pictures) gird their loins for the coming to Wolverhampton of Grand Magus’s ‘The Hunt’ tour.
Having recently been on something of an Old School Death Metal binge of late, OneMetal.com’s Danny Heaton went to worship at the Chapel of Disease when zee Germans invaded Leeds.
The annual Jorvik Viking Festival in York now boasts a Viking Metal gig on its final night. Kit Rathenar grabs a battleaxe and joins the party.
Before heading back to the studio to work on their next release, InMe said TTFN in style with a show at the Garage that showcased some of their least-played live songs.
Phil Whitehouse checks out a diverse evening encompassing grindcore, hardcore, black metal, screamo and post-metal, all headed up by an explosive performance by metallic hardcore legends Converge.
Henry Fogarty heads to the O2 Academy Brixton to catch a show by resurgent rockers Skunk Anansie. Are they just as good second time around?
Danny Heaton and Jack Traveller spent a day in the Leeds University Union to bring you this in-depth report of the metallic festivities ensconsced within in the form of the 2012 edition of Damnation Festival.
Seeing a band everyone loves and you have never heard of is one of the best ways to be truly objective, which is lucky for Christine Backer and Jeff Loomis on the London leg of the Euroblast Tour.
Festival season is drawing to a close, yet there’s still Damnation Festival 2012 at the Leeds University Union on 03/11/2012 to look forward to. Phil Whitehouse, Danny Heaton and Jack Traveller take you through their most-anticipated bands from the line-up.
Lower Than Atlantis show why they’ve gone from unheard of to superstars in the past couple of years with a delicious set at Camden’s Electric Ballroom.
OneMetal scribes Phil Whitehouse, Danny Heaton and Jack Traveller humbly present, at long last, the thrilling conclusion to their three-part review of the metal shenanigans which occured at the Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival 2012.
Danny Heaton dug out his Wehrmacht helmet for the Leeds leg of Marduk’s European Serpent Sermon Tour.
Nicholas Cleeve descends to the bowels of the Camden Underworld to witness melodic death metallers Engel play an amazing set to a shockingly thin crowd.