Published on August 27th, 2010 by The Editor
Melodic vocals, thrashy guitars, hypertechnical drumming and a bunch of industrial nastiness… Return To Earth have your end-of-the-world soundtrack right here.
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Tags: Automata, cyborg rock, hard rock, industrial, metal, Return To Earth, thrash
Published on July 7th, 2010 by The Editor
Newport outfit Spiridion mash up Deftones and Tool very successfully on their self-released debut A Moment Of Clarity. Give ‘em time, and they could be awesome.
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Tags: A Moment Of Clarity, alt-rock, alternative, metal, post-metal, soundscape, Spiridion
Published on July 5th, 2010 by The Editor
This is the fourth studio album by Superbutt. They’re big in their homeland of Hungary, you know… and by all merits, they should be fairly big over here, too.
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Tags: alt-rock, hardcore, metal, riff rock, rock'n'roll, Superbutt, You And Your Revolution
Published on July 2nd, 2010 by The Editor
Alert the historians: this is the day a band defied my ability to string genre definitions together coherently. Ladies and gents, 342 by Pin Up Went Down…
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Tags: 342, avant-garde, metal, Pin Up Went Down, progressive, weird
Published on July 1st, 2010 by The Editor
If you’ve ever wondered what a very skilled band rehashing the worst clichés of nu-metal’s golden age would sound like, Nottingham’s Spirytus have got your back.
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Tags: funk-metal, metal, nu-metal, rap metal, Spirytus
Published on June 25th, 2010 by The Editor
Croydon’s Silent Disguise could probably do with spending less time on pre-emptively pigeonholing themselves and more time on making their tunes sound original.
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Tags: Blueprints, metal, pop metal, pop-punk, post-hardcore, Silent Disguise
Published on June 24th, 2010 by The Editor
If I Am Abomination spat as hard as they shone on debut album To Our Forefathers, they’d be staggering. As it is, they’re a highly polished scenester-prog band.
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Tags: emo, haircut hardcore, I Am Abomination, metal, post-hardcore, progressive, scenester, To Our Forefathers
Published on June 23rd, 2010 by The Editor
Voyager and Monolith face off on the first release from new post-metal label Science Of Silence; both are competent, but Voyager are well out in front.
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Tags: doom, metal, Monolith, post-metal, sludge, Split, Voyager
Published on June 22nd, 2010 by Callum Tennent
The short sharp Slipknot clones of Exalt Cycle‘s Evasion Therapy album might be improved by a second guitarist, or maybe some new ideas of their own. Or both.
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Tags: Evasion Therapy, Exalt Cycle, metal, metalcore
Published on June 16th, 2010 by The Editor
Bangalore band Slain make Indian prog-metal cheddar which sounds… well, pretty much the same as prog-metal cheddar from anywhere else, to be honest.
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Tags: Before Beyond, cheese, hair metal, metal, progressive, Slain