On the back of the announcement that they are to play a pair of headline shows in the wake of their appearance at Download this coming June, Whitechapel have released a powerful video for the track ‘When A Demon Defiles A Witch’.
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It’s hard to believe that it’s only a week until The Stranglers head out on their annual trek around the highways and by-ways of the Über Kingdom of Rock ‘n’ Roll…
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Cold-wave/noise? Parisian trio FTR sit as squarely within the industrial rock bracket with this release, to our resident DJ’s ears, sounding like it would be at home somewhere between ‘Lonely Boy’ by The Black Keys, Nine Inch Nails’ ‘The Hand That Feeds’ and a number of Big Black tracks. There are a few different sounds that go alongside each other within the album, too, with it not feeling like a tale being told, rather something focusing more on the music itself as individual tracks.
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Sat somewhere between the boundaries of black metal and classic death metal, DunkelNacht are testament to the ever-shrinking borders between extreme metal subgenres on their third record ‘Empires of Mediocracy’. Not since the ‘80s has the spectrum of extreme been such a fluid beast, bands finally realising that existing purely in one subgenre invites a sense of laziness which ultimately grinds all but the very best into formless gruel. Such formlessness doesn’t befit a band like DunkelNacht, the band instead cherry-picking the very best elements of both black and death metal to create something which can gladly cater to both camps.
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Discovering Rhapsody Of Fire in 2019 is a bit like starting ‘Game Of Thrones’ halfway through season four without reading any of the books beforehand. The Italian power metallers have had a complex career to say the least and figuring out their backstory can be a challenge, but we’ll have a go all the same.
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