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From Thursday 01 November 2012

Suicide Silence frontman passes away

Mitch Lucker, vocalist of Suicide Silence, passed away a few hours ago due to injuries sustained during a motorcycle accident. He was 28 years old. The band last released full length ‘The Black Crown’ in 2011. It’s awful when something like this happens, especially to someone so young, and we

Lower Lands post new video online with BlankTV

BlankTV are currently premiering the new video from Lower Lands. It’s available to view below, and the song was released as a single yesterday. http://www.facebook.com/lowerlands

Blitz Kids post new single online for free download

Blitz Kids are currently out recording with John Feldmann in LA, and have posted a free download of the title track from their forthcoming ‘Never Die’ EP online. Check out a teaser below, and then head over to http://www.blitzkidsofficial.com/members to get yourself the download.

The Retrospective Soundtrack Players – ‘The Catcher in the Rye’

The Retrospective Soundtrack Players are less of a band and more of an art project. Taking their favourite books and films, the sextet interprets the plots into a twee amalgamation of folk and pop. To make the project even more implausible, for the band’s second full-length record they have

Green Day post ‘The Forgotten’ music video online

Green Day have released a video for ‘The Forgotten’ – taken from the ‘Breaking Dawn – Part 2’soundtrack (urgh). It comes in advance of the band releasing part two of their album trilogy ‘¡Uno!’,’¡Dos!’,’¡Tré!’, and well… it’s a ballad. If you don’t fancy hearing Green Day with strings or

Energy post ‘Another Yesterday’ video online

Energy have posted a music video for their song ‘Another Yesterday’ online. It’s a bit halloween themed so we’re probably a bit late posting it but it’s a good tune anyway so… who cares? Check it using the player embedded in this article and get the song from http://energy.bandcamp.com/

LIVE: Never Say Die Tour at Electric Ballroom, London [18/10/12]

There is a formulaic pattern embedded in tonight’s proceedings; each band delivering minimal variation on sporadic moments of high-tempo metal spliced with some sort of genre-bending composition – be it trance-infused breakdowns or clean vocal harmonies. As expected with a roster made up of up-and-coming metalcore bands from across

Wednesday 31 October 2012

Taking Hayley added as comp winners to Warped Tour UK

> Despite having a really bad name and some distracting fringes, Taking Hayley have emerged as victors of the Ernie Ball Battle Of The Bands competition to play Vans Warped Tour UK. The band will join the likes of Lostprophets, Bring Me The Horizon, Less Than Jake and New Found Glory

Futures call it a day

futures have called it a day, not particularly long after the release of ‘The Karma Album’ that saw the band leave their major label home. You can check out the full statement from the band’s Facebook below. The band will play a final show at the Garage

The Cut Ups post ‘The Gold War’ music video online

Punk rockers The Cut Ups have posted a new music video online. It’s for ‘The Gold War’ from their recent, excellent ‘Building Bridges. Starting Here’ album on Household Name. You can and should check it out using the player embedded in this article. http://www.facebook.com/thecutups