Category: Metal

By Glen Parkes There is something refreshing about a band that understands exactly what it wants to sound like. Eternal are not hiding behind layers of studio polish or trying to reinvent thrash metal for the sake of it. On their debut album Conspiracy Of Warheads, the Athens four-piece take the speed, [more…]

By Glen Parkes There are albums that arrive as collections of songs, and then there are albums that feel like someone has opened the door to a much darker room and invited you inside. DE STAAT, the seventh album from Dutch five-piece De Staat, belongs firmly in the second camp. Released on [more…]

By Glen Parkes Post‑melodic nu‑metal rising stars ZILQY mark their first anniversary in style with blistering new single ‘RUN’, the third preview of highly anticipated debut album Birth of Riot, due 7th October. Arriving exactly one year since the band burst onto the scene in 2025, ‘RUN’ is built on a commanding [more…]

Review By Halina Wegner There are very few bands who have managed to build an identity as instantly recognisable as Amon Amarth. For more than three decades, the Swedish melodic death metal giants have turned Norse mythology, battlefields, sacrifice and brotherhood into huge songs built for equally huge stages. The Allfather Awakens, [more…]

Metal Nuclear Blast Records Release Date – September 18th 2026 Review By Smudge Smith Anthrax was the first band I saw using my own money. It was the ‘Spreading The Disease Tour’ and I still have fond memories of seeing them at the Hammersmith Odeon (as it was then). I’ll be honest [more…]