Category: Metal

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Metal

Lead Injector – ‘Witching Attack’

Thrash Metal High Roller Records 20th,Released – February 20th 2026 Review By Smudge Smith Lead Injector are a blackened thrash trio from Dresden and were formed in 2022, and they are still unfeasibly young. They knocked out a demo in 2024, and on the strength of that, they were given a deal. [more…]

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Metal

Stainless – ‘Lady Of Lust And Steel’

Heavy Rock/Metal High Roller Records Release Date – March 20th, 2026 Review By Smudge Smith 2024: Raging out of Portland, Oregon, comes Stainless, who officially started in 2022, with the members having been in bands throughout the Northwest US metal underground. They released an EP in 2024 and this is their first [more…]

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Metal

Kate’s Acid – ‘Hellbender’

Speed Metal High Roller Records 20th,Release Date – March 20th 2026 Review By Smudge Smith I’m going to show my age. Who remembers the Belgian HM band Acid? They were always in Kerrang! In the early 80s, they pushed out 3 albums between 1982 and 1985, and then they broke up. They [more…]

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Metal News

BLOODSTOCK & TRIVIUM premiere band’s 2025 headline set tonight at 7pm GMT

The horns go up tonight as BLOODSTOCK and TRIVIUM unleash the professionally filmed premiere of the full TRIVIUM headline set from BLOODSTOCK 2025.  Long hailed as Britain’s fiercest independent metal gathering – a pilgrimage for die-hards, riff worshippers and circle-pit lifers alike – BLOODSTOCK has built its reputation on moments that become legend. This is one of them! Florida’s modern metal standard-bearers [more…]

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Metal

Exodus – ‘Goliath’ Album Review

Thrash Metal Napalm Records Release Date – March 20th 2026 Review By Smudge Smith ” Exodus are back, baby! Not only with a bang – a bloody big one but returning singer Rob Dukes has given the performance of a lifetime. In fact, I would say the whole band has stepped up [more…]

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Metal Singles

VCTMS – “devil’s/speak”

A Jace Media Music Review Illinois’ metalcore provocateurs VCTMS return with a scorched-earth single, “devil’s/speak”, a dark, aggressive collision of nu-metal and metalcore that hits like a fist through glass. From the opening riff, the track channels raw intensity and vengeful energy, confronting betrayal head-on while leaving the past dead and buried. [more…]

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Metal Singles

GODSNAKE – “Lost & Forgotten”

A Jace Media Music Review Hamburg’s melodic thrash contenders GODSNAKE return with a fierce statement of intent in new single “Lost & Forgotten”, the opening salvo from the forthcoming third album Inhale The Noise, due April 17th, 2026 via Massacre Records. From the first riff, the track hits with sharp precision and [more…]

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Metal

Review Skies Turn Black – Vreid

By Kirsty and Alastair Middlemist Having somehow eluded my radar for over two decades, Vreid arrive as a new discovery to me—which makes the fact that Skies Turn Black is their tenth studio album all the more remarkable. Formed in Norway and long established within the black metal scene, the band’s name [more…]

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Metal

Tailgunner – Midnight Blitz album review

ARTIST – TAILGUNNER ALBUM – MIDNIGHT BLITZ REVIEWER – GRAEME WRIGHT I reviewed the debut Tailgunner album ‘Guns For Hire’ back in 2023, and I was hugely positive about it. Old-school metal but with a modern “joie de vivre” and high-quality production, it ultimately ended up as one of my albums of [more…]

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Metal

Rozario – ‘Northern Crusaders’

Heavy Metal Pride And Joy Music Release Date – February 20th, 2026 Review By Smudge Smith Thanks to my partner in metal, Adrian Hextall, I have been subjected… er, I mean, introduced to all things power metal, and I have to say I am thoroughly enjoying the experience. It takes me back [more…]