According to a note on the Earache Records tumblr, Manchester noise machine Beecher are back in business.

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 [...]

People say post-rock is boring, and they might have a point. On record The Album Leaf make few sudden moves. They softly whisper, weave through ambient soundscapes and make gentle post rock shapes that even leave the rock out most of the time. Live though, the band (for while their ship is steered by genius [...]

This 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 [...]

Norma Jean’s new record, ‘Meridional’, is up in full on their Myspace. A review will appear on this site soon.

New Filter album next month. Looking forward to it. Despite no one buying it, 08′s ‘Anthems for the Damned’ was pretty good.

Thrice have booked 1 UK headline date. They’re squeezing in a show at the Electric Ballroom August 26th before playing main stage at Reading

Impending Doom have put the title track of their new album up on their myspace Good, but nothing compared to last album

If there is another band more haunted by their past than Sepultura then god help them. Despite the fact that frontman Derrick Green has been in the band for almost as long as original member Max Cavalera, that this is Green’s fifth record at the helm, and that none of those records have been disappointing, [...]