METAL

By LARS GOTRICH Metal is not supposed to be cute, and yet we have a coffee table book of metalheads posing with their cats, Metallica songs rendered as lullabies and, well … Metallica onesies. So when in 2014, three defiantly cute Japanese girls entered the scene playing ebullient J-pop backed by heavy metal, there…

The Sheffield rockers are following last year’s genre-exploding triumph ‘amo’ (which crash-landed at Number One) with a series of gnarly, experimental EPs ByAndrew Trendell Bring Me The Horizon don’t give a fuck what you think about them – we established that long ago. When the long-fringed Sheffield lads emerged from MySpace…

Listen to Within Temptation’s new single Shed My Skin, featuring German metalcore band Annisokay. Words:Emily Carter Within Temptation and Annisokay have teamed up for a typically powerful new single, Shed My Skin. The song itself is out today (June 25) while the official video arrives during the band’s The Aftermath – A Show…

California metalcore merchants Of Mice & Men offer something old, something new, and something very unexpected on the final, composite part of the EP trilogy… Words:Mischa Pearlman When is an album not an album? That’s the question Of Mice & Men are inadvertently posing with the release of Echo. That’s because the…

By Simon Crampton Overall Score: 9/10songs: 9/10music: 9/10vocals: 10/10Pros: a unique emotionally resonant debut from one of metals hottest bandsCons: virtually nothing Let’s cut to the chase shall we? Spiritbox are a special band. The kind of band that doesn’t come along very often, and when they do they send shockwaves through the scene. Eternal Blue, their debut album…

Spreche kein Deutsch? Here’s the English translation of Rammstein’s new song, Zeit… Rammstein have just released the video for Zeit, their first new music in three years and the opening throw from their forthcoming album of the same name, due April 29. It’s a somber, yet still majestic affair, with a suitably haunting…

I feel as though I have been living under a rock for the last few years.  I was randomly scrolling through upcoming music releases and found an album cover that caught my interest.  It featured a huge elephant standing behind a lone boy.  Between the elephant and the name of…