This is one you probably haven’t heard of. With festival season underway, all the usual names are battered around – Download, Bloodstock, Graspop, Wacken, Hellfest, Metal Days, and countless others. Most countries have at least one major event and a [...]
In its second wave of announcements, Tech-Fest, home to the heaviest, tech-iest and most interesting bands in the scene, has gone ahead and added a further 15 bands to their 2018 event. The new additions to the bill join a [...]
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 [...]
February 22, 2018
Tours/Live Dates Part 1 of this interview was published yesterday. In the era they found themselves in, it’s bizarre to think a band making such ridiculous music (his words, not mine!) would find any sort of success. Nevertheless, with the rock press [...]
January 10, 2018
Interviews We’re all aware of djent, to varying degrees, as the freakish third cousin to prog metal (twice removed) that sounds “kind of plonky”, and while very few bands can be considered as genuine genre innovators in the 21st Century, djent [...]
January 9, 2018
Interviews I love going to gigs, reviewing music and interviewing bands all year round but perhaps my favourite part of doing all this is putting together the end of year review and the hours of thought and drafting that went into [...]
December 30, 2017
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