Category: Metal

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…]

Reviewed By Ian Walker for Jace Media Music Prepare for a seismic shift: Royale Lynn has arrived. With her scorching debut album Black Magic, released June 27 via Epitaph Records, this “small-town metalhead” transcends expectations, forging a fierce alt‑metal-hard‑rock hybrid that will crush charts and hearts alike. From the moment the first riff [more…]

Written for Jace Media Music by Ian Walker In the ever-evolving landscape of heavy music, few bands have struck as singular and seismic a chord as The HU. Fusing traditional Mongolian throat singing, ancient instrumentation, and metal with sweeping ambition, their genre-defying “Hunnu Rock” continues to evolve in groundbreaking ways. With the [more…]