What can only be described as a “disgusting” level of violence marred the Origin set during 70000 Tons of Metal cruise from Fort Lauderdale, Miami to Mexico recently. It is still unclear as to the level of casualties of these events or the state of the injuries amassed during what [...]

State of Deceit hail from South Wales and have featured them before. However, given that they released their second EP, Retribution, last month we figured it was time for a catch-up. This mixture of thrash, groove and metalcore should set the pulses racing. Plenty of anthemic choruses for you to [...]

I, along with probably every Rush fan, am still in shock over the news of Neil Peart’s death. (Neil Peart, Rush Drummer Who Set a New Standard for Rock Virtuosity, Dead at 67.) I decided to spend the night with Rush, so spent the evening re-watching the documentary, Rush – [...]

Formed in 1995 in Italy, Extinction released an EP in 1996 and their first album a whopping 20 years later in 2017! They followed it up with this release, The Apocalypse Mark towards the end of 2019 and I recently got my paws on a CD copy. The band cite Sepultura [...]

Mark Morton is currently on tour in support of his upcoming EP, Ether. The EP is out on the 17th and we’ll have a review of the Birmingham show shortly, but in the meantime here’s Mark talking to our own Topher before going out to wow the Brummie crowd! Mark [...]

For me, 2019 has been one hell of a year both on and off the park, as they say in football, but that doesn’t even begin to explain how big a year 2019 was in metal. A sad demise, with the unlikely chance of witnessing the metal institution that is [...]