Converge, The Chariot, Protest The Hero and Sharks are among the first bands confirmed to play this year’s Hevy Festival. Read more here!
The ’January, 2012’
Cancer Bats have premiered their official music video for new track ‘Old Blood’. Watch the video here!
UK Release January 23rd 2012 on Century Media
The Italian goths came in for a fair amount of criticism with their last album, 2009’s ‘Shallow Life’, with many condemning it as poppy and commercial, a blatant attempt to break into the US market… well, having dominated the European metal scene for more than a decade, who could really blame them for wanting to cast their net wider and break big on the other side of the Atlantic as well? Read more here!
UK Release January 24th 2012 on Agonia Records
This Italian symphonic pagan metal band have been around, in one shape or form, for more than 20 years and this, their sixth full-length album – their first in seven years – is a concept piece based around witchcraft in the Middle Ages – a subject that seems close to their dark hearts, as it is the second time they’ve approached the subject in this manner. Read more here!
UK Release January 23rd 2012 on Rising Records
This quartet from south Wales obviously approach their particular brand of blackened death metal with their tongues somewhat in their cheeks: in their press material they cite their influences as Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cradle Of Filth ”and a slight peppering of Rick Astley, for added brutality…” and this ten track debut album contains tracks which delight in titles such as ‘Don’t Stop Bereavin’ and ‘Rigor Mortis (Makes Me Stiff)’. Read more here!
UK Release January 20th 2012 on Transgressive Records
The sophomore album from Leeds’ Pulled Apart By Horses is has generated a lot of excited anticipation from fans and the industry alike. There was a lot to live up to after their storming, electrifying debut ‘Pulled Apart By Horses’, and whilst ‘Tough Love’ produces a more evolved sound and demonstrates the more skilful musicianship of the four-piece, there is a sense that something has gone missing along the way. Read more here!
