Ellis Heasley

It doesn’t get much better than this. Atlanta, Georgia’s THE CALLOUS DAOBOYS released one of the best albums of the decade back in 2022 and they’ve already added a killer EP to their repertoire since then. Tonight they’re Downstairs At The Dome in north London’s Tufnell Park for all the violence and intimacy the 250-cap venue promises, with probably the best current UK metalcore band for support.

“How meticulous was it? Pretty goddamn meticulous!” laughs John Angel, aka the mastermind behind the progressive death metal entity that is FIRE AT THE PLANTATION HOUSE. He’s just been hit with what in hindsight is a bit of a silly question about the complexity of the process by which he created his debut album

The new music video, for the track Serpent Queen, is a precursor to the upcoming second album from the South African metal band.

Brighton hardcore would not be in the rude health that it is were it not for bands like IMPOSTER who paved the way. Those aren’t so much our own words as those of one of the BN1’s very finest in NO RELIEF when we chatted to them earlier this year, and they’re right. The five-piece put out a demo way back in 2017 and followed it up quickly enough with 2019’s

The following words describe an album that contains graphic themes of eating disorders. Reader and listener discretion is advised.

Titled Ode To The Dark Matter, the new track from the Finnish doom trio is taken from their upcoming new album Unversum, which is scheduled to be released next week via Lay Bare Recordings.

Vertex have released a new music video for their new song 'All My Hatred'! Watch it here on Distorted Sound!

“We only really aspired to be a local band in the beginning.” How many times have you heard that one before? A group of mates get together, put out three or four songs, play a few shows and move on with their lives. Often that’s exactly how it goes, but sometimes the scene has other ideas – sometimes a band is too good to slip through the cracks and before you or even they know it they’ve got multiple releases to their name and perhaps even made it to a debut full-length. This is where we find

The new music video, for the track Whisper, is taken from the French post-punk/cold wave quartet’s upcoming new EP YELL, which is scheduled to be released in November this year.

Few albums have ever scarred the face of extreme music more indelibly than Calculating Infinity by THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN. Mathcore, noisecore, chaotic hardcore – whatever you want to call it all that stuff had developed into something quite special over the course of the 90s, starting essentially with the criminally underrated