Progressive/metalcore/post-hardcore crew I Am Abomination’s latest EP ‘The Passion Of The Heist’ tells of one poor unfortunate’s abduction and assimilation by an alien race. Phil Whitehouse watches the skies.
The Lowering The Tone tour rolls into Birmingham, dragging djent-y figureheads Tesseract, solo project-gone-live band Chimp Spanner and French newcomers Uneven Structure in its wake. Phil Whitehouse was there to bring you the low-down.
After 10 years together, Polish prog-rock quartet Riverside give us an EP celebrating their career. Ross Jenner tells us all about it.
Virginia’s doom titans While Heaven Wept take us on another lengthy journey with Fear Of Infinity. Rob McAuslan buckles in and grabs a box of tissues.
Phil Whitehouse returns to The Old Wharf in Birmingham for the second day of charity fund-raising, hard-rocking unsigned showcase Brumstock 2011.
With his twin loves of hearing new metal bands and frugality, how could Phil Whitehouse resist the 2011 edition of Birmingham’s free-entry, charity-sponsoring unsigned rock and metal festival, Brumstock?
With the release of their critically-acclaimed debut EP ‘The Compass’ imminent, Phil Whitehouse thought it was high time OneMetal had a chat with fast-rising Melbourne, Australia-based technical/progressive metallers Circles.
Black-metallers go prog? Rob McAuslan goes towards the light.
Phil Whitehouse checks out ‘The Compass’, the debut mini-album by Australian technical/progressive metallers Circles.
OneMetal Heroes talks to Nathan Barley, owner of progressive/technical metal-centric label Basick Records, about the state of the contemporary music industry, what the role of a record label is, and just what it is a record label boss does all day.
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.
Jack Traveller plunges into the depths of his local metal scene in search of treasure in the form of the rising prog-Stars Enochian Theory.
Jack Traveller holds his nose while entering into the pungent world of Swedish blackened death metallers Stench’s ‘In Putrescence’.
Canada’s most recent prog exports Protest The Hero dish up their third album for our consideration. Beard-stroking courtesy of OneMetal’s Rob McAuslan.
Jack Traveller takes a trip with the self-titled, self-released debut album by Birmingham-based prog metallers Hookah The Fuzz.
On the Titan EP, Manchester-based post-metal quintet The Construct present four anthems of down-tempo, doom-laden atmospheric metal – Phil Whitehouse checks it out.
Wokingham-based instrumental progressive/experimental rock trio Heights unveil their second full-length album – find out what we thought within.
Technical Death Metaller’s Sons of Aurelius new album ‘The Farthest Reaces’ gets put through its paces.
Do you know anything about…Witches? Intrepid dancing nymph Emma Hacking sure does. Check out her review of Dario Argento’s Suspiria on Blu-ray for a witchin’ look at the 1977 giallo horror masterpiece.
Night Is The New Day represents the latest stage of Katatonia’s 17-year evolution – read on to find out what Sweden’s favourite miserablists sound like circa 2009.