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    Vended
    DESPITE BRIMMING OVER with youthful piss and vinegar, Vended have had the maturity to hone their craft and make sure they deliver a kick-ass debut album. Now, six years on from their formation and almost three since they released their debut EP, What
    Metal Hammer UK5 min read
    Dool
    RALPH WALDO EMERSON once wrote, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” This is the central idea behind the latest outing from Dutch voyagers Dool. Both sonically and thematical
    Metal Hammer UK9 min read
    Scream Bloody Gore
    In January 1993, upstart US game developers id Software put out a press release announcing agame that would revolutionise the world. According to the press release, it was set in a scientific research facility where “wave after wave of demonic creatu
    Metal Hammer UK5 min read
    Voidkind
    IN 2021, AUTEUR extraordinaire Denis Villeneuve transformed Dune into a cinematic juggernaut: an instant classic of immaculate effects, world-building and set-pieces. That year’s second-best adaptation of Frank Herbert’s space-drugs bible was by the
    Metal Hammer UK8 min read
    The 20 Most Metal Videogames Ever
    Twisted Metal survived three time of its 2012 remake, the generations of PlayStation thanks franchise had amassed a cast of to nothing more complicated than recurring characters (chiefly the vehicular mayhem and a brash beefy clown Sweet Tooth), whi
    Metal Hammer UK5 min read
    Tarantula Heart
    NORMAL RULES SELDOM apply to Melvins. Apsychedelically inclined sludge metal band that emerged when no such thing existed, Buzz Osborne’s amorphous mischief-makers have built a career upon the gleeful confounding of expectations. Even at their most c
    Metal Hammer UK4 min read
    Celestial Darkness
    The inaugural Celestial Darkness is the brainchild of the people behind Camden’s trve cvlt Cosmic Void festival, and if its brief is more eclectic, the culture of camaraderie is every bit as tangible, even more so when the crowd are unified in thrall
    Metal Hammer UK3 min read
    Heavy Metal Uprisings From Around The Globe
    LISTENABLE As stuck in the 80s’ latter half as they still are, there’s a reason why Pentagram (Chile)’s 1987 demo was so influential for the nascent death metal scene. Their second ever proper album is worthy of this legacy. ■■■■■■■■■■ OLIVIER BADIN
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    A Little Piece Of Heaven
    AVENGED SEVENFOLD CONTINUE to proselytise for ahightech future, wherever it leads. And on February 27, they hosted a private launch party in the basement of a Los Angeles office tower to share their first virtual reality experience, Avenged Sevenfold
    Metal Hammer UK5 min read
    Big | Brave
    ‘I FELT Afuneral in my brain.’ With these words, this Canadian experimental trio, who seamlessly blend elements of doom and folk, open their sixth standalone full-length. The phrase, uttered delicately and imbued with the innocence of a child by voca
    Metal Hammer UK2 min read
    Every Hell
    The end of Brighton post-metallers Black Peaks was understandably painful for Will Gardner. “It hurt for a long time afterwards,” says the singer and guitarist of the demise of his former band in 2021. “And lockdown completely drove me insane.” With
    Metal Hammer UK3 min read
    Heidevolk
    YOU KNOW YOU’RE at a folk metal gig when you hear “Raise your horns!” and know that it’s not a reference to a hand gesture, but rather a drinking receptacle. This is the order of Jacco Bühnebeest, one of pagan troupe HEIDEVOLK’s two singers, before t
    Metal Hammer UK2 min read
    Cure
    ERRA HAVE LONG been the unsung heroes of metalcore. The Alabama quintet have steadily assembled their solid and multidimensional progressive sound, introducing anew facet of with each album: proggy technicality on 2013’s Augment, lush and kaleidoscop
    Metal Hammer UK1 min read
    Meth.
    IF YOU PLAN on going to a Meth. show, be prepared to see vocalist Seb Alvarez bleed. Partly influenced by a childhood love for professional wrestling, the Chicago band’s physically punishing onstage antics –set to a sludge-spattered fusion of death m
    Metal Hammer UK1 min read
    Artists Are People Too!
    IF YOU KNOW Tool, you’ll know that their fandom can be cult-like –as well as critical. People have spent hours poring over the meaning of their lyrics, as well as hours on social media, speculating about their timescale for making new music and the d
    Metal Hammer UK2 min read
    Oxymorrons
    OXYMORRONS HAVE A lot to say, but one word you won’t find in their vocabulary? ‘Rest.’ The foursome, from Queens, New York, began releasing music back in 2015 –but shifted gears with their 2021 EP, Mohawks &Durags, with Fever 333’s Jason Aalon Butler
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    Ice,ice Baby!
    It’s not every day you see a death metal bassist slide past you on ice skates, holding onto a three-foot-tall plastic penguin for dear life –but Frozen Soul are a band obsessed with ice. Since they formed six years ago, the five-piece from Dallas, Fo
    Metal Hammer UK2 min read
    High On Fire
    Matt Pike’s sludge metal juggernaut gets back into gear THE LAST SIX years has been a rollercoaster for these rifflords. While High On Fire enjoyed some all-time career highs, including releasing their critically acclaimed eighth LP Electric Messiah
    Metal Hammer UK6 min read
    Milquetoast Helmet
    SANDWICHED AWKWARDLY BETWEEN grunge’s domination of the music scene in the early 90s and nu metal taking over the world at the end of the decade, sit one of metal’s most unique, influential and underappreciated bands: New York alt metal legends Helme
    Metal Hammer UK4 min read
    Delilah Bon
    WHEN LAUREN TATE was a teenager, she felt like an alien. As a lonely kid growing up in Barnsley, she had been making music and singing in her bedroom since she was 12, but her ambitions were mocked by her classmates and derided by her teachers. “I di
    Metal Hammer UK2 min read
    Ou
    China has famously given the world many things during its millennia-long history: paper, gunpowder, banknotes, a great big wall among them. But prog metal? Not so much. Ou (pronounced ‘O’) are out to change that. The Beijing four-piece put a unique s
    Metal Hammer UK2 min read
    Deicide
    IT’S ODD TO experience head Deicide-er Glen Benton beaking off about rejuvenation, revitalisation and resurrection. Isn’t that sort of thing verboten in their blasphemy-spewing universe? But hey, rather him than you-know-who, right? And in the case o
    Metal Hammer UK5 min read
    Michael Poulsen
    FROM BRUISING HARD rock to thrashing psychobilly breakdowns, Michael Poulsen is a heavy metal chameleon. Starting out in death metal band Dominus, the formidable Dane quickly realised the heavy music scene needed a makeover - and along came Volbeat,
    Metal Hammer UK1 min read
    Where EP Is Short For ‘Epic Potential’
    Dismal SEEK & STRIKE Occupying the crossroads between tech-death and melodeath, Burn Down Eden are as crushing as they are exhilarating on these five songs. Alongside rapidfire blasts, the Germans also have an understanding of primal, catchy groove.
    Metal Hammer UK3 min read
    Unprocessed
    WITH NO FEWER than 21 strings between their three guitars, German prog-metallers UNPROCESSED deliver a masterful display of polyrhythmic riffs blended with metalcore choruses. There’s plenty of technical excellency on show, not least from guitarist a
    Metal Hammer UK4 min read
    Korpiklaani
    KORPIKLAANI HAVE LONG blended spirited folk metal with an authenticity that clings to the roots of Finnish folklore and the country’s unspoiled nature. Once the go-to band for alcohol-based anthems and impromptu festival conga lines, the drinking con
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    Hawxx
    Teenage rebellion looked very different for Hawxx vocalist and guitarist Anna Papadimitriou. “Some people join punk bands, shave their heads or take drugs,” she says. “My thing was becoming a Christian. I would tell my mum that I was going out clubbi
    Metal Hammer UK2 min read
    My Dying Bride
    NOW WELL INTO their fourth decade, My Dying Bride have produced a remarkably consistent output. Aside from 34.788%… Complete, which followed Paradise Lost into more experimental waters at the end of the 90s, the gloom lords have worked on steadily de
    Metal Hammer UK1 min read
    Wheel
    JAMES LASCELLES: “What they do better than anyone is structure and arrangement. The building blocks are very simple but they’re put together in extremely interesting ways. They’re the best in the world at it.” Life can sometimes take a strange turn.
    Metal Hammer UK8 min read
    ″the World Is Ready For Us Now″
    Ona blisteringly hot day at 2023’s Sick New World festival in Las Vegas, a huge crowd await Kittie’s arrival. In the throng, rabid Gen Z-ers, ready to witness the reunited Canadian band for the first time, jostle for position amid 30- and 40-somethin

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