Category: Metal

Review By Ian Walker After a seven-year hiatus, 16Volt returns from the static with More Of Less, a thunderous statement of intent released via Metropolis Records on July 25th, 2025. This is not just a comeback album—it’s a rebooted surge of industrial defiance, a record that blends rage, reflection, and reinvention. Eric [more…]

Review By Ian Walker Out 11 July via Mascot Records, Calva Louise’s new album is a genre-defying, multidimensional sonic odyssey. Calva Louise have never been a band content with the ordinary, and on their latest release, Edge of the Abyss, they don’t just push boundaries — they demolish them. The British-based trio [more…]

By Ian Walker Poison the Preacher  aren’t just another band looking to make noise—they’re here to ignite a movement. With their debut album Vs The World released on May 23, 2025 via Seek and Strike Records, the Bogotá-based quartet crash through genre walls with both fists swinging. It’s a mission statement drenched [more…]

Review By Ian Walker In a world where genre lines blur and geographical borders dissolve in the digital ether, it’s bands like Mission Jupiter that remind us of rock’s power to both transcend and transform. Hailing from Minsk, Belarus, this alternative metal collective has flown just under the radar—until now. With their [more…]

Review By Glen Parkes for Jace Media Music If you ever wondered whether the glory days of hard rock could be reborn with fresh blood and modern fire, Rust N’ Rage’s new album Songs of Yesterday answers with a deafening, guitar-screaming, fist-pumping yes. Set for release on August 22, 2025 via Frontiers [more…]

Halina Wegner for Jace Media Music Defects return with a vengeance on their blistering new single “Heresy” — a sonic battering ram that rips through false hope with surgical fury. From the hypnotic intro riff to Tony Maue’s guttural war cry, “Let’s go!”, the track wastes no time setting fire to comfort [more…]

By Ian Walker for Jace Media Music On their decade milestone, Shadow of Intent return with Imperium Delirium—a merciless yet meticulously crafted album that marks their most brutal and politically charged work yet. Set for release on June 27 via Blood Blast Distribution, this record doesn’t simply expand their signature blend of [more…]

Blackened Death Metal Metal Blade Records Release Date – May 2nd 2025 REVIEW BY SMUDGE SMITH Hate have been around since 1990 but changed their name to Hat in 1992. Hailing from Warsaw, Poland they have been pretty prolific in their output since then. Having never heard any of their previous albums [more…]

Stoner/Sludge Self Release Released – May 17th 2025 REVIEW BY SMUDGE SMITH Mudfinger are a German stoner/doom power trio who formed in 2014. They released their first album ‘Psychonaut’ in 2018 and this is their sophomore effort. ‘Trinity’ opens on some huge easy guitar lines to warm up before the riff gets [more…]

Gothic Rock Independent Release Released – Early 2025 Blax are Italian and were one of the bands that caught my eyes and ears on my visit to Masters Of Rock last year. They played early on the main stage to a fast-gathering crowd, having played the second the year before, and they [more…]

Speed/Thrash Metal Independent Release Released – April 26th 2025 Desolator hail from Southampton and were formed in 2010. They didn’t hang about and released a demo in 2011 then a full length in 2013 and an EP in 2014 as well as having a track on a Sony compilation ‘Speed Kills 7’ [more…]

Thrash Metal Reigning Phoenix Music Released – May 23rd 2025 Review By Smudge Smith for Jace Media Music I’m always interested when a band re-record their back catalogue using the latest technology along with new members. Onlsaught have done just that with a selection of from the albums made with singers, Sy [more…]