I've moaned and groaned about the genre "progressive metal" being thrown around like a university football too many times to count, so when yet another progressive metal band drops into my email inbox I already go into a review with preconceived notions. Not so with Egypt's Anarchy who certainly
Junkyard Lipstick is a band that has worked hard to get to where they are now. They persevered through a line-up change last year and are now sounding tighter than ever live. Hellbent is the debut album from the thrash-punk quartet
Infanteria means "infantry" if translated from Spanish to English – though it remains unclear as to whether or not the band intended any links to the Spanish military. Regardless, their name seems apt enough considering how Infanteria's lyrical content makes many inferences
What can one do in 52 minutes? Well, you could try to plod your way through a single chapter in any “Lord of the Rings” book, OR listen to Balyios' debut album Homeward- only one of these will satisfy your fantasy needs, and it's not
Within the first few seconds of play I was already feeling right at home. I'm a melody-junkie of note, and I love anything that gallops on triplets! In fact, this band plays into pretty much everything I love about metal and I can't believe its been a whole year since the release of this album before I heard it. This should be in CD stores across the country
Last seen in Cape Town in 2011, Juggernaught, are a band of men with beards, makin’ manly Southern rock. I know that this is a website dedicated to metal, but Juggernaught have bigger balls than a lot of metal bands in my opinion. Fusing bluesy riffs and lyrics with hard hittin' rock, this band ain't one to push aside. And besides, I haven't met a single metalhead that doesn't dig it like wors!
ING - the most politically INGcorrect band in the universe - have brought out their second slab of degenerate death/thrash metal and with it their usual take on the world we live in and life in general. I am sure that the lyrical content of this serving of vitriol will not sit well with some listeners
Metalcore. A genre so many fans of heavy music have gravitated towards over the past few years, but with so many generic, carbon-copy, one hit wonders plaguing the metal scene in more recent times it has become a genre that many now approach with much reservation. Fear not metallers
At the time of a bands first release, that moment is often the most defining point in its members lives. The thought of how much time, cash, creative and mental resources have been pumped in over many years to reach that point is quite staggering. Sadly, many bands who even get that far
Instrametal is a four piece melodic music beast that hails from Johannesburg, that employs the services of Lord Onyr (Spectral Realm) on keyboard when they play live and according to them, “The human race is losing the plot.” The Catalyst to Chaos is their second album and sees them writing very melodic metal to accompany
