This is not just another sausagefest. You’ll never see this many girls at a heavy metal show until next time Bring Me The Horizon roll into town.
Of course, some might argue that BMTH are more metalcore than heavy metal or that they’re not even a little bit metal – it’s just fashion something or other.
It [...]

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Who said Slayer were old school? There seemed to be an Unholy curse on our technology! Our video camera chewed up our tape and our camera packed up halfway through. Hugh Platt still managed to remember some…

With a beard so mighty it increases his hair swing per headbang by at least 40%, Johan Hegg’s Swedes [...]

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Viking Skull
Doom, Gloom, Heartache & Whiskey
Powerage Records
03 November 2008
by Hugh Platt
While they might’ve started as a joke spin-off band from Corby bruisers, Raging Speedhorn, Viking Skull have long since mutated, growing strong following the patronage of one Bam Margera, and the recruitment of his brother, CKY sticksman Jess Margera, for tub-thumping duties. Doom, Gloom, Heartache [...]

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The Bronx
The Bronx (III)
10 November 2008
Wichita Recordings
by Danny Montana
The Bronx stick an extra couple of Xs on the end of their name most times. I reckon they’re kisses because you just can’t help loving this band.
This is the third self-titled album and it explodes with riff-rolling lead single, ‘Knifeman’. It seems like Matt Caughthran still [...]

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Cradle Of Filth
Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder
Roadrunner Records
27 October 2008
by Danny Montana
Following on from 2006’s rather mediocre effort Thornography, Suffolk’s premier extreme metallers are back with a different line-up to go with yet another epic, conceptual foray into dark and dramatic musical territories.
Using the concept of French, 15th century serial killer Gilles De Rais provides [...]

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Gojira
The Way Of All Flesh
Listenable Records/Prosthetic Records
13 October 2008
by Salvadore Fernandez
After breaking through with their astounding third album, From Mars To Sirius, the well-read French quartet are back with another crushing slab of progressive death metal. And yes, once again there is a profound message underneath their mesmeric tones.
This time Gojira have decided to have [...]

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You Me At Six
Take Off Your Colours
Slam Dunk Records
06 October 2008
by Mischa Pearlman
Weybridge quintet You Me At Six (or, depending how MySpace you’re feeling, youmeatsix) are most definitely a product of their times.
When emo has become the new chav, and when today’s undemanding pop audiences eschew any depth or feeling in the music they listen [...]

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Bring Me The Horizon
Suicide Season
Visible Noise
29 September 2008
by Ryan Williams
A lot has happened since 2006’s debut, Count Your Blessings, Bring Me The Horizon and little of it has helped people get away from the thinking that this band talks it better than they walk it.
A couple of listens of Suicide Season will change a lot [...]

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Mötley Crüe
Saints of LA
Eleven Seven
30 June 2008
by Hugh Platt
There’s a line in The Dirt, Mötley Crüe’s thunderous, essential autobiography, when Allen Kovac, manager of the then Vince Neil-less Mötley Crüe, corners Neil in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel manoeuvre him into re-joining the band:
“Are you a star as a solo artist? In the environment [...]

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The Berzerker
The Reawakening
Berzerker Industries
8 September 2008
by Hugh Platt
The Berzerker don’t like you. They don’t like anything about you. They’d probably punch your Mum in the neck, given half the chance.
What The Berzerker does like, are bloody chunks of death metal, programmed industrial blast beats so dense that they wear live drummers down to smoking stumps, [...]

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