music REVIEW: Accept – Stalingrad
Kit Rathenar follows the legendary Accept into battle, and finds out that these veterans still have plenty of fight left in them…
Kit Rathenar follows the legendary Accept into battle, and finds out that these veterans still have plenty of fight left in them…
Rob McAuslan learns the value of listening instead of just hearing, courtesy of Enslaved and their latest album RIITIIR.
Album number six for Sweden’s Grand Magus, drummer number three – Rob McAuslan peers past the potential for Spinal Tap gags and gives us his thoughts on The Hunt.
New York’s Overkill have been around for over thirty years. Is The Electric Age a new dawn, or will it be consigned to history? Rob McAuslan finds out.
Really good melodic death metal without even the slightest hint of clean vocals? Nicholas Cleeve checks out Finnish melo-deathsters Before The Dawn’s latest album ‘Rise Of The Phoenix’ to see if such a thing is still possible.
How many ballads equals too many ballads? This, and even deeper existential questions are forced on Nicholas Cleeve by German power metallers Edguy’s latest album, ‘Age Of The Joker’.
You’re as likely to be able to dance to Dave Keevil’s review as the album he’s talking about. Yep, it’s a new Meshuggah record alright.
Rhapsody of Fire have released the conclusion to the decade and a half long narrative that has been a part of their last 10 albums, but is it a march on the Gates of Mordor or just a Scouring of the Shire? Nicholas Cleeve puts on his robe and wizard hat.
Can Reading’s Sylosis build on the promise of their first album? Rob finds out inside.
New York death metal veterans Immolation return with their eighth full-length album.
Mesopotamian metallers Melechesh return with their latest outpouring of blackened spite, The Epigenesis.
Italian fantasy-metallers Rhapsody Of Fire return with a thirty-five minute, seven-act epic – Oliver Longden dons his loincloth and joins the quest to brave the castle of Har-Kuun, and attempts to keep a straight face throughout.
Swedish war-obsessed heavy metallers announce their first full UK headline tour – dates, venues and support act details within.
German thrash legends return after a 14-year hiatus to release their fifteenth studio album, Blood Of The Nations – details within!
Doom metal legends Cathedral return from a five-year absence with The Guessing Game – Phil Whitehouse tries to puzzle it out.
Dutch progressive/technical metal crew announce their new frontman – details within!
Bay Area thrash metallers Forbidden reform after a thirteen-year-hiatus, and start work on their fifth album – details, working track titles and more within!
German ‘Zombiecore’ band Callejon release bloodsoaked video for ‘Kinder der Nacht’ from their upcoming album, Videodrom.
Legendary UK doom metal act Cathedral annouce a headlining tour to support their upcoming album, The Guessing Game – dates and support act details within!
New York hardcore wrecking crew sign a European deal with Nuclear Blast Records – details within!