music REVIEW: Assaulter – Boundless!
Rob McAuslan casts his ear over some blackened thrash, courtesy of Australia’s Assaulter.
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music NEWS: OneMetal.com Talks To Soilent Green’s Tommy Buckley
Phil Whitehouse sat down for a chat with Louisiana-based grind/sludge mentalists Soilent Green’s drummer Tommy Buckley, and learned that even when your house is flooded, your shoulder is busted and you have a hernia, “There’s no calling in sick out here on the road”.
music REVIEW: Darkest Era – The Last Caress Of Light
Irish pagan doom-mongers Darkest Era step up with their first album. Rob McAuslan gets bleak and gives his verdict.
music REVIEW: Across The Sun – Before The Night Takes Us
Across The Sun finally give us their debut full length album, ‘Before The Night Takes Us’. Ross Jenner peers through the darkness to see what they’re up to.
music REVIEW: Amon Amarth – Surtur Rising
Phil Whitehouse dons his loincloth, holds aloft his battleaxe, and joins Swedish melodic death metallers Amon Amarth on their eighth full-length raiding party, ‘Surtur Rising’.
music INTERVIEW: OneMetal Talks To Amon Amarth’s Fredrik Andersson
Angus Wood caught up with Viking metal legends Amon Amarth’s drummer Fredrik Andersson for a chat about the nature of true metal, inter-band arguments about the colours of things, and his past in the Swedish postal service.
music REVIEW: Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
North Carolina prog-metallers Between The Buried And Me unveil the first of a two-disc concept album. Rob McAuslan conditions his beard in preparation for much stroking.
music REVIEW: Lazarus A.D. – Black Rivers Flow
Will Wisconsin thrashers Lazarus AD build on the promise of their first album? OneMetal’s Rob McAuslan pulls on his big white trainers again and lets us know.
music REVIEW: Full Blown Chaos – Full Blown Chaos
Ross Jenner gets into the pit for New York-based metalcore act Full Blown Chaos’ latest, self-titled album.
music REVIEW: The Ocean- Heliocentric and Anthropocentric
Zachary Pino dives right in to the latest double-album release by experimental metal philosophers, The Ocean.
music INTERVIEW: Job For A Cowboy’s Jon Rice talks to OneMetal
Job For A Cowboy drummer Jon ‘The Charn’ Rice sits down for a natter with Phil Whitehouse about the story of how he joined the band, ever-changing lineups, why the band are cool with the piracy of their albums, and why touring with Whitechapel is like summer camp.
music INTERVIEW: Whitechapel’s Alex Wade talks to OneMetal.com
OneMetal Music Editor Phil Whitehouse chats to Whitechapel guitarist Alex Wade about the pros and cons of touring as a support band as opposed to a headliner, how it feels to be part of the new guard of metal acts, and the story behind the new album’s striking cover art.
music LIVE REVIEW: Job For A Cowboy, Whitechapel, Annotations Of An Autopsy + Trigger The Bloodshed
Four of contemporary death metal’s heaviest hitters descended on Wolverhampton’s Little Civic @ The Slade Rooms for an evening of blastbeats, breakdowns and brutality. Phil Whitehouse reports from the frontlines.
music REVIEW: Hail Of Bullets – On Divine Winds
Old-school death metal supergroup Hail Of Bullets takes us through a metallic tour of the Pacific Theater conflict of WWII with their second album, ‘On Divine Winds’ – Rob McAuslan ties his headband and climbs into his fighter plane.
music REVIEW: Hammers Of Misfortune – Fields & Church Of Broken Glass
San Francisco-based prog/folk metallers’ Hammers Of Misfortune’s fourth release, double concept album Fields/Church Of Broken Glass, recently re-released by Metal Blade Records, comes under the OneMetal microscope.
music REVIEW: Dawn of Ashes – The Genocide Chapters
From starting out in a dark electro coccoon, for their second album Dawn Of Ashes have mutated into a melodic death metal butterfly. Oliver Longden checks out how successful the transition was.
music REVIEW: Hammers Of Misfortune – The Locust Years
Continuing our reviews of Metal Blade’s re-releases of San Francisco-based progressive/traditional/folk metal titans Hammers Of Misfortune’s first four albums, Phil Whitehouse immerses himself in third album, The Locust Years.
music INTERVIEW: OneMetal talks to Powerwolf at Bloodstock
Whilst at Bloodstock 2010, Phil Whitehouse had a close encounter with a creature of the night – the keyboard player from German vampire/goth metallers Powerwolf. Check out the sweet music they made as a result within!
music REVIEW: Hammers Of Misfortune – The Bastard
San Francisco progressive/folk/trad metal luminaries Hammers Of Misfortune’s critically-acclaimed first four albums have been re-released by Metal Blade – check out our appraisal of the band’s lauded debut within!
music REVIEW: Istapp – Blekinge
Debut album from Swedish Black/Folk Metallers Istapp.
Warning – This album may make you happy, but it will be a grim and frostbitten kind of happy.