A new Amon Amarth album is always an event in the metal world. Our resident metal minstrels of the tales of the vikings have been steadily growing in popularity ever since their big breakthrough almost fifteen years ago courtesy of With Oden On Our Side. Their latest album, Beserker, seems set to propel them to…
When it comes to music it seems that everything has to be put into a category or subgenre. Naturally when this happens, trends form, bands get big and eventually everything gets watered down and becomes deritive. It’s important to remember the former part of this sentence when discussing Whitechapel. Finding their feet during the burgeoning…
“It’ll all be over by Christmas” comes the gurgled refrain on the pummelling war hymn, Forward! The few stabs of lyrics that make sense the first time through Anaal Nathrakh’s latest 35-minute odyssey of insanity, A New Kind Of Horror, paint a foreboding picture of a war so desolate the only through line is the…
The Black Dahlia Murder are one of the premier death metal bands around today. They have built an incredible and somewhat enviable back catalogue over the last decade. Nightbringers is another high point in their growing legacy. It’s refreshing to see a band getting heavier yet still retaining a sense of melody this far into…
The metal world was stunned in November 2014 when the news broke that both Chris Broderick and Shaun Drover would be stepping down from their duties with thrash behemoths Megadeth. Since their departure the duo have been hard at work with their next musical endeavour, Act of Defiance. A week before their debut album, Birth…
Six Feet Under are renowned throughout the extreme metal community as a marmite band, you either love them or you hate them. Crypt Of The Devil is their 11th album since forming in 1993 as side project for then Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes and as the 4th biggest selling death metal band in the…
This interview took place outside the Black Heart, Camden on Monday 20th April 2015. You can read a review of the gig here on Rock Sins. –##– MH : First off, despite your years of doing this and your experience as such, do you ever wake up and feel like you’ve swallowed a pineapple? DH…
Thomas Giles is best known by many as one of the creative virtuoso’s (and lead singer / keyboardist) behind the much revered prog metal masters Between The Buried And Me. What may be known by less is that a few months ago Thomas put out a fantastic solo album in the shape of Modern Noise….
From the ashes of As I Lay Dying and Oh, Sleeper Wovenwar have been hard at work building up their reputation. With the band comprised of the former As I Lay Dying members and Shane Blay from Oh, Sleeper, Wovenwar have a new image and a new sound. We speak to Phil Sgrosso ahead of…
Despite immigration issues on gaining access to the UK, Goatwhore have just laid waste to Manchester with their unique sound of a combination of death metal and black metal. We spoke to lead guitarist and founding member Sammy Duet to talk about the band’s sound, the difference in playing at a festival and city shows…
