MAMMOTHFEST Band Preview: AGHAST! “Our Music Is For Fans Of Rollerblading And Ordering Latte”
Aghast! spill the beans on themselves and various other things, and thankfully didn’t make any mess. Well, perhaps a little.
MAMMOTHFEST Band Preview: AEOLIST “We will probably be the only band at the festival to only perform ‘one song’…”
Aeolist are a 5 piece Progressive act hailing from Norwich. After releasing their Debut EP just over a year ago to critical acclaim, the young band are fast becoming one of the most exciting up and coming acts on the UK metal scene.
MAMMOTHFEST announces yet MORE bands for 2015
Mammothfest Brighton has added another bunch of incredibly tasty bands set to blow the minds of fans in 2015 including OAF, SUMER and THE DEAL WAS FOR THE DIAMOND!
LATEST NEWS
BEHEMOTH To Release Official Biography Via Metal Blade Records
Behemoth: Devil’s Conquistadors by Łukasz Dunaj serves as the definitive BEHEMOTH biography.
- Aversions Crown frontman Colin Jeffs steps down
- OATHS: UK Hardcore Newcomers release ‘I Am The Danger’ video
- New Supergroup ART OF ANARCHY Release album teaser
- DOPETHRONE: new album details and trailer released
- Protest The Hero’s Tim Millar seeking Music Students
- ROB ZOMBIE finished mixing new solo album
- MARDUK launch video for title track of ‘Frontschwein
METALMOUTH EXCLUSIVE
VIDEO PREMIERE: LIBERTY LIES “Circles”
Today MetalMouth proudly premieres the latest song and video from Black Country rock quintet, Liberty Lies. And what a cracking tune it is!
‘The new song entitled Circles is taken from the UK rockers upcoming EP ‘Fracture’.
- VIDEO PREMIERE: CORE OF IO – “Why Not Take A Chance”
- VIDEO PREMIERE: PATH TO PREVAIL – “A Future Told”
- PREMIERE: UNTO THE LION : Sonata (Heavy Prog/Tech)
- VIDEO PREMIERE: KING LEVIATHAN – King Under The Mountain
- EXCLUSIVE: ENGRAVED DISILLUSION Stream ‘The Eternal Rest’ In Full!
- EXCLUSIVE: Prog Metallers ASTRAL DISPLAY Stream New Track ‘Revival’
- EXCLUSIVE: Stream a brand new track from SUMER
ALBUM / TRACK STREAMS
Stream: WELLS VALLEY: ‘Matter As Regent’ (Sludge/Doom/Post Metal)
We really quite like Wells Valley. They offer the oppression of Neurosis with the groove and riffs of Gojira, tempered with the twinkly highs of Cult Of Luna. Niiice.
- Stream: BARISHI ‘Endless Howl’ EP (Progressive Metal)
- CEASE release new EP
- Stream Periphery’s ‘Juggernaut: Alpha’
- Ur Draugr: Debut EP “The Wretched Ascetic” Streaming Now (Blackened Prog)
- NAPALM DEATH launch new song online
- PSYCROPTIC REVEAL NEW SONG & LYRIC VIDEO
- Stream a new track from DIESEL KING
INTERVIEWS
Interview: HUNTRESS “You have to learn to abandon your female bullshit and realise you are owned by heavy metal”
“The other night helping out with Amon Amarth when Johan Hegg had to step out for the night to protect his voice, It was the first time he ever had to do that , he went to the hospital because he blew his voice out. ” – Jill Janus
- INTERVIEW: The Sun Explodes “We’re just trying to get some of the kids involved. Fuck that sounded creepy, didn’t it?”
- Interview: Generation Graveyard “I don’t believe in a lot of doomsday prophesies any more but I’ve always got my fingers crossed”
- Devin Bellend Interviews HAKEN “You can’t have an 8 string and not play and Djent Riffs! I think it’s illegal.”
- Interview: RAGING SPEEDHORN: “There’s still a demand for us. That warms our hearts.”
- Interview: MAX CAVALERA “I would love to do a song with James Hetfield, or Lemmy from Motorhead.”
- Interview: ANTI-CLONE’s Pete Moore “Prostitutes, vomit and cocaine….all the time”
- Interview: Soph Day of ALUNAH: “She got her straighteners and shoved them up his bum, cooking him from the inside out”
REVIEWS
Review: WEDNESDAY 13 – Monsters Of The Universe: Come Out And Plague
“Happy New Year, have another album” must be Wednesday 13’s motto.
This will be number nine in ten years including live and compilation outings so he must have taken a break somewhere.
- LIVE REPORT: HELL HATH NO FURY – THE MAZE, NOTTINGHAM – 25/1/2015
- LIVE REPORT: AMON AMARTH. HUNTRESS, SAVAGE MESSIAH – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham – 19/1/2015
- Review: SYLOSIS – Dormant Heart
- Review: INGESTED – The Architect of Extinction
- REVIEW: Marilyn Manson – The Pale Emperor
- Review: UNSU – K.I.A.I. (Kill Icons and Idiots)
- Live Report: MAXDMYZ, GENERATION GRAVEYARD, PROFESSOR ELEMENTAL – Club Antichrist -2/1/2015
FREE MUSIC
FREE MUSIC: OCEILL – Course Bottom (Progressive/Ambient Metal)
A new discovery for me today in the form of Finland’s Oceill. Although the song was released back in August of 2014, it is no less worthy of your ears right now in 2015.
- FREE MUSIC: I – OLDE (Doom/Sludge)
- FREE MUSIC: THE BODY POLITIC – ‘Egressor’ EP (Prog Metal)
- FREE MUSIC: Unearth The Kings – And Yet It Moves (EP)
- FREE MUSIC: A Light Within- “Between Shores” (Post-Metal)
- FREE MUSIC: ‘Happy Metal Annihilation Vol. 4′ 44 Tracks
- THE LUMBERJACK FEEDBACK Release Free Digital EP
- FREE MUSIC: Hammer Smashed Radio Releases Annual Xmas Compilation
UK TOUR NEWS
PRIMITIVE MAN: Set To Release Limited 12″ EP and reveal UK tour dates
Get sad with the EP trailer featuring opening track, “Loathe,” and check planned UK dates to catch Primitive Man live with Sea Bastard
- Brighton’s THE QEMISTS to support KORN on European tour
- Sleepmakeswaves announce UK co-headlining tour with Skyharbor & Tides From Nebula
- Deep In Hate Announce New Lineup and Mini-Tour with The Black Dahlia Murder
- BRUTAI added to London Camden Rocks showcase
- THE AGONIST premiere video for ‘Gates of Horns and Ivory’ and announce Euro Tour
- OCTOBER FILE, ALUNAH, GRIMPEN MIRE and more announced for WORTH THE WEIGHT BIRMINGHAM All Dayer
- Monomyth Announce February UK Tour
FESTIVALS
MAMMOTHFEST Band Preview: AGHAST! “Our Music Is For Fans Of Rollerblading And Ordering Latte”
Aghast! spill the beans on themselves and various other things, and thankfully didn’t make any mess. Well, perhaps a little.
- MAMMOTHFEST Band Preview: AEOLIST “We will probably be the only band at the festival to only perform ‘one song’…”
- MAMMOTHFEST announces yet MORE bands for 2015
- Download Festival slot confirmed for EVIL SCARECROW
- MAMMOTHFEST Band Preview: SLABDRAGGER “People should watch us because we like watching people watching us watching them.”
- Metaldays 2015 – Dream Theater, Arch Enemy, Fear Factory and more bands announced
- First bands announced for Camden Rocks Festival 2015
- BLOODSTOCK announces DELAIN, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE And More for 2015
Top Lists
Alan Hicks: Top 50 Albums Of 2014
Another year, another list and it seems to get harder every year to compile these things. As usual I’ve listed 50 but in reality the further you go down the list you know each album could be in a completely different position..
Are any of your faves in here?
- The Class Of 2014 – AdamDS’ Top 19 Albums
- Simon Hall’s Top 19 Releases Of 2014
- Underground Albums/EPs of 2014 – 13 bands that made me reach for my kids piggy bank
- 7 STUNNING TRACKS YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD IN 2014
- Gary’s top ten…no make that eleven, albums of 2014
- 12 Kick-Ass underground UK bands that made my 2014
- Top Ten: UK Doomsters CONAN give us their all time Top Ten Albums
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