As many of the national competitions get underway, Glasgow’s gears grind into motion as Ivory Blacks begins the long run through the rounds and heats of the Metal 2 the Masses competition. The first three heats have been announced, with the dates and bands as follows (links to the facebook [...]

With the addition of Wolfmother and Inglorious plus some other great bands, the line up for Tons of Rock festival in Norway is now complete. This year’s festival will take place in Oslo, rather than at Fredriksten Fortress where it has been located for the past five years. For all [...]

As the working week finally reaches its bitter end and two whole days of unfettered freedom approach, it’s time to dive into some new music courtesy of today’s Band of the Day… Simple things first – where are you guys from? Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and London, UK. How did you meet? [...]

Fallujah are currently gearing up to release their brand new album Undying Light, their first with new vocalist Antonio Palermo via Nuclear Blast records. Prior to their show with Obscura in Manchester recently, I had the opportunity to catch up with guitarist Scott Carstairs to discuss not only the new album, but [...]

Legendary Finnish melodeath band Insomnium have begun recording their eighth studio album, as drums are being nailed at SF Studio with engineer Kimmo Perkkiö. Afterwards the work shall continue at Teemu Aalto Music Productions in Kotka. Jens Bogren will do the mix at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden. Comments guitarist Markus [...]

Italian stoner/sludge monsters The Blacktones are back with a spanking new video from their concept album The Day We Shut Down The Sun which was released in 2017 (and which we premiered at the time). More importantly, we get to show you it before anyone else! The band have the following [...]