First of the Styigan at Myspace
As a way of getting your music out there as a new band handing out your demo to random passers-by at a metal festival is certainly a novel approach, but it’s the one that Wales First of the Stygian took and I guess since it got them this review it’s [...]

Colosseum at Myspace
Not to be confused with the 60’s prog rock pioneers or the American Sludge-core band on Relapse Record, Colosseum are the latest in a long line of traditional funeral doom metal acts that have come out of Finland. They follow in a long line of such acts such as Thergothon, Skepticism and Shape [...]

Baroness at Myspace
“The Red album” is a record that is of the age it was created but yet seems ageless. Combining  both metal influences (Mastodon, Isis, Opeth, Floor) and non metal (Fugazi, Yes, Tool, Pink Floyd) influences to give birth to a sound that is so individual its hard to describe. The foundation of this [...]

Devildriver at Myspace
There comes a time in most trend-hoppers time when the first trend they attached themselves to dies and they hop onto the next. This doesn’t just apply to teenagers but to musicians. Bullet for my Valentine, Atreyu, and Norma Jean all started out as rap/nu metal bands, but perhaps the most famous trend [...]

Alestorm at Myspace
If you haven’t heard the term “Battle Metal”, then you haven’t had the misfortune of reading Metal Hammer UK recently. After previously covering Oasis and the The Verve in the 90’s and in recent memory given My Chemical Romance and other emo bands front covers, said magazine has now decided it is “the [...]