Cypecore is a German metal band that was founded in 2007 in Mannheim, Germany. The group debuted in 2008 when their first album "Innocent" hit the stores. It was the beginning of four concept albums that helped the band to establish a very solid foothold in the German metal scene. With "Make Me Real" the... Continue Reading →
Review CHAOSBAY ‘Boxes’ – EP
Berlin-based Chaosbay went through a transformation during the last years. The band started more in the fields of progressive rock and metal with classic rock element being and extra spice. Slowly the band added metalcore elements to their sound and while the clean vocal parts remind of the earlier days, the metalcore moments are the... Continue Reading →
Review BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE ‘Bullet For My Valentine’
The rise of Bullet For My Valentine has been impressive. Founded as a Nirvana/Metallica cover band, the quartet has moved step by step towards their own sound identity. It is rare for a band to achieve considerable success with their debut album and then build on it. Bullet For My Valentine has succeeded in this... Continue Reading →
Review TIMES OF GRACE ‘Songs of Loss and Separation’
Times Of Grace is the band of Adam Dutkiewicz and Jesse Leach. The starting point of this band was a rather unusual one. Dutkiewicz required an emergency surgery some years ago while being on tour with Killswitch Engage. During his recovery, the guitarist started to work on songs. Later on, Leach joined as singer and... Continue Reading →
CD review WHILE SHE SLEEPS ‘Sleeps Society’
Riff and scream acrobats While She Sleeps started in 2006 and shared so far four longplayer with the metalcore community. The so far latest longplayer was send from the UK to the world in 2019 and was named ‘So What?’. The reception of the longplayer was a good one with the album entering the German... Continue Reading →
CD review GHØSTKID ‘GHØSTKID’
GHØSTKID is the brainchild of former Eskimo Callboy frontman Sebastian 'Sushi' Biesler and in different to his ex-bandmates, Biesler establishes with GHØSTKID a sound that's far away from soulless pop-/electrocore. GHØSTKID take the inspiration from various sources, starting with metal and metalcore to pop and nu metal. The album opens with the wild und untamned... Continue Reading →
CD review BURY TOMORROW ‘Cannibal’
The basic mood on 'Cannibal' is certainly in strong contrast to the current summertime. It's not light and color which are the main focus and spirit. Darkness and uncompromising emotional honesty is what makes this longplayer to an emotional contrast to what the eye sees these days. If you've got enough sun and want to spend some time on (self-) reflection, you've found your soundtrack with 'Cannibal'.
Live (Photo-) report THE HU & FIRE FROM THE GOD, Melkweg, Amsterdam – 05.02.2020
A while ago a music video went viral on YouTube, showing a band from Mongolia that merges Metal with Mongolian Folk music. Their name – The Hu, meaning ‘the people’ in their native language. The band got in the spotlight very quickly and still is talk of the town. With having released an album recently,... Continue Reading →
CD review OBEY THE BRAVE ‘Balance’
(8/10) Canadian metalcore powerhouse Obey The Brave has their homebase in Montreal, Quebec and that's where they started their metal journey back in 2011. Since then the quintet released three full-length longplayers with 'Balance' being number four. The new album features nine songs and with a running time of 29 minutes, meaning the album isn't... Continue Reading →
ARRIVAL OF AUTMN in spring
Canadian metal upstarts Arrival Of Autumn, will release their second full-length album and Nuclear Blast debut on March 29. 'Harbinger' was produced and mixed by Jason Suecof (Devildriver, The Black Dahlia Murder, All That Remains, Trivium) and mastered by Alan Douches (Darkest Hour, Everytime I Die, Suicide Silence). Check out the first single 'The Endless': "'Harbinger' is a warning for all of us to pay attention to what's going on in the world and improve what we can... Continue Reading →
CD review KADINJA ‘Super 90”
(7/10) Paris, the city of love, is the homebase of a band that calls themselves Kadinja. The guys started in 2013 and debut in 2017 with an album called 'Ascendancy'. After having inked a deal with Arsing Empire the guys do have a new album right in the starting blocks. 'Super 90'' is the name... Continue Reading →
CD review THE AMITY AFFLICTION “Misery’
(6/10) The first song that was revealed from The Amity Affliction’s newest album ‘Misery’ was ‘Ivy (Doomsday)’. Being more then solely a video clip the single is part of a sort of short movie that’s split in three parts. Already at this early stage of the review I have to say that some more time... Continue Reading →
CD review ANNISOKAY ‘Arms’
(8/10) The rise of German melodic metalcore outfit Annisokay is a really impressive one. Things began in 2007 in Halle, Germany and since then the band seems to be an unstoppable force in German metal. The band that had to face some line-up changes in the early years, evolved with each album unveiled. It took... Continue Reading →
CD review BURY TOMORROW ‘Black Flame’
(8/10) British metalcore-ians of Bury Tomorrow launched their latest studio output 'Earthbound' in 2016. Two years later album number five will step out of the darkness into the light. The 'Black Flame' starts burning mid July, featuring ten new songs of the metalcore quintet and will be the debut for Bury Tomorrow's new label Music... Continue Reading →
CD review HALCYON DAYS ‘Rain Soaked Pavement & Fresh Cut Grass’
(7/10) First of all, there is Halcyon Way and Halcyon Days. Both have a new album out on the market and have an extremely similar band name. This review is about Norwegian Halcyon Days that released with ‘Rain Soaked Pavements & Fresh Cut Grass’ their second full-length album. Inspired by bands like Underoath the sextet... Continue Reading →









