Coheed and Cambria
TBC
Roadrunner Records
ETA Summer 2012

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It seems that we can’t get enough of The Black Dahlia Murder and Skeletonwitch’s UK tour. Not only did about half our writing staff pile into the Camden Underworld when the tour hit London, but our photographer in chief, Gary Wolstenholme, was on hand to snap it when the tour arrived in his native Sheffield. His sexy, sexy pictures are just after the jump.

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Hevy Festival has announced its first fifteen bands for 2012 – they are Converge, Will Haven, Protest The Hero, Deaf Havana, Verse, The Chariot, A Wilhelm Scream, Deez Nuts, Set Your Goals, Trapped Under Ice, Pianos Become The Teeth, Balance and Composure, Sharks, Last Witness, and Crocus. Sweeeeeeet.

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Pilgrim
Misery Wizard
Poison Tongue/Metal Blade
14 February 2012

by Tom Dare

While music obviously needs bands capable of doing radically new, different things, it also needs bands that refine existing styles and add their own voice. Pilgrim fall into the latter category – they’re not going to spawn an entire new sound, but they are going to deafen, hypnotise and bewitch you in short order.

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32 years ago today, Bon Scott, frontman with rock legends AC/DC performed his final ever concert – somewhat sinisterly, the final show of the band’s Highway To Hell tour. Just over three weeks later, on 19 February 1980, Scott would be found dead after suffocating on his own vomit, following a night of drinking at The Music Machine (a club/venue that went on to become The Camden Palace, and is now KOKO).

With today being the anniversary of Scott’s final show, we’re revisiting the final ever live video shot of AC/DC before his tragic death.

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Goatwhore
Blood For The Master
Metal Blade
13 February 2012

by Von

Confession time. I only just started really listening to Goatwhore. Yeah, I’d heard them on compilation CDs and Spotify trawls, but I hadn’t sat down and got through a whole album. Why? Because I’m a fucking moron. Goatwhore are pretty much everything I like about metal. Each album is a great big spiky ball of black, blasting, power that makes me want to throw booze down myself, burn churches to the ground and wear nothing but bullet belts. I want to go back in time and smack myself in the face for being so dumb.

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Tool
Title TBC
Volcano Entertainment
ETA May 2012

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Grappler

From: London & Leeds, UK, via Grenoble, France
Lazy equation: (Devil Sold His Soul + Dead Swans) x a degree less wanton chest-beating.
URL: Website // Facebook

Thrash Hits Verdict: 
At some point, the UK hardcore bubble of recent years is going to burst. Like it or not, the part-timers will at some point get bored, and the resurgence that has revitalised the country’s scene over the last few years will retract, implode, and then retreat back to the underground for a few years. Thankfully though, that cataclysm still shows no signs of manifesting any time soon, leaving us plenty of quality bands of Grappler’s calibre to enjoy. Oh yes.

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The Menzingers
On The Impossible Past
Epitaph
20 February 2012

by Tom Doyle

The appeal of honest, sweat-drenched punk rock is decades old, but its power never seems to diminish and the reaction it can illicit in your heart and head when done correctly is second to none. With their third full-length, On The Impossible Past, The Mezingers have tapped into this spirit with a display of effortlessly emotive songwriting flecked with nostalgic Americana, all held together with an understated but ever present sense of melody, dynamics and candid self-reflection.

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Cancer Bats have cut the crap and kept it simple for their video to ’Old Blood’, the first single to be taken from their upcoming fourth studio album, Dead Set On Living. Then again, given that the very essence of Cancer Bats is a bunch of guys going seven shades of apeshit in tiny, confined rooms, it more than captures the energy that’s made these Canadians such perennial favourites here in the UK.

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