Complexity Fest 2018: Full line-up and details

With what promises to be a marked improvement over their first two years, the Dutch Complexity Fest 2018 looks set to be an excellent couple of days if you like your metal complex and technical but are also open to some genuinely new musical experiences. With a focus on the more progressive and experimental bands … Continue reading Complexity Fest 2018: Full line-up and details

Complexity Fest announces another wave of bands for 2018

As Complexity Fest gears up for its third year, a whole crop of acts have been announced to join SikTh and Carnifex. Over the 23rd and the 24th of February, the three-hall venue in Patronaat, Haarlem, Netherlands will see a variety of the most expansive, progressive and boundary pushing bands playing alongside one another. The … Continue reading Complexity Fest announces another wave of bands for 2018

Thy Art Is Murder / After The Burial / Oceano / Justice For The Damned – The Electric Ballroom, London (8th October 2017)

It's almost two hours before the doors are due to open and already, swarms of metalheads adorning Suicide Silence and Whitechapel shirts are blasting music outside The Electric Ballroom and heckling the doormen. Tonight, Australian extreme metal export Thy Art Is Murder are playing their single biggest headline show to date and the atmosphere surrounding … Continue reading Thy Art Is Murder / After The Burial / Oceano / Justice For The Damned – The Electric Ballroom, London (8th October 2017)

Thy Art Is Murder announce UK tour

Fresh from their headlining appearance at this year's touring Impericon Festival (review here), Thy Art Is Murder have announced a week-long jaunt through the UK under the name "Dear Desolation World Tour". The shows are in support of their as-yet-untitled fourth album, due this summer. If the album is anywhere near the quality of new single … Continue reading Thy Art Is Murder announce UK tour

Review: Oceano – Revelation

I’ll admit that I’m not as familiar with Oceano as I would like. My dabbles into the deathcore world in recent times haven’t been as far-reaching as they used to be and while I have listened to a heck of a lot of it, I seemed to just miss when Oceano started. Hailing from a … Continue reading Review: Oceano – Revelation

Thursday Video Roundup: Fire in the Radio, Justin Symbol & The God Bombs, Darko, Papertank, Oceano, Kepler Ten

Busy day today. Must be a Thursday... Fire in the Radio - "New Air" Philadelphia-based Fire in the Radio will release their sophomore album New Air on 16th June via Wednesday Records. The album is the follow-up to their 2015 acclaimed record Telemetry and can be pre-ordered now at Bandcamp. Today the band revealed the … Continue reading Thursday Video Roundup: Fire in the Radio, Justin Symbol & The God Bombs, Darko, Papertank, Oceano, Kepler Ten