If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. These are words The Acacia Strain live by. Sure, they might have improved their chops, paid for better production, and somehow got more pissed off over the years but this is essentially the same black-hearted, bloody-knuckled misanthropic metalcore the Massachusetts mob were writing a decade ago. That’s not a slight though. Where most […]
Read moreThis is some weird shit. Ok so Mastodon have never really done anything normal but the monstrous quartet’s fourth full-length is officially freakin strange. The concept (of course there’s a concept) is a collision of time travel, ghostly possession, spirit worlds, and Russian wizards, and the music is no simpler. First single ‘Divinations’ mixes warped country twang with wrecking ball […]
Read moreThrice have booked 1 UK headline date. They’re squeezing in a show at the Electric Ballroom August 26th before playing main stage at Reading
Read moreIf there is another band more haunted by their past than Sepultura, then god help them. Despite the fact that frontman Derrick Green has been centre stage with the Brazilian titans for almost as long as original member Max Cavalera, despite the fact that this is Green’s fifth record at the helm, and despite the fact that none of those […]
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