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
Megalodon offers a unique alternative to the long-standing South African sausage-machine production. Falling under a unique genre, their debut album, Darkness in Sonance, offers plenty of variation throughout ten songs, dictating almost an hour of metaphorical terror within a tightly constructed package. Megalodon's ability to perform spectacular live shows coins them as one of South Africa's trump cards!
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
Armed with a bar-fridge of Monster, and a desire to party, we battled against various weather conditions and unforeseen difficulties amidst the standard festival chaos. This year, the annual event that is Rock the River presented a diverse selection of music across three stages, catering towards fans of metal, alternative, and electronic music
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
So it's that time of year again! The gig circuit is heating up after the winter drought, and as is customary, several parties were vying for the fickle Capetonian's social calendar this past Saturday, and The Halloween Slaughter III won, in my case. It's an almost nostalgic event for me, as I reviewed the previous Halloween Slaughter which took place at the Purple Turtle about 364 days ago
I had a feeling that this ROAR gig would be a particularly interesting one, since I hadn’t experienced the kind of music two of the bands (Past Haunts and STRAGE) play live before, and Past Haunts were performing live for the first time
Friday the 19th of October saw metalheads from the greater Durban area unite for Metal Night at the Winston and as seems to be the norm in Durban these days, you make mention of a metal gig and all hell breaks loose with the weather. We're talking torrential rains that should last days being condensed into a matter of 3 or 4 hours
