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The lineup for Brutal Assault 2010 has been finalised, shown on the poster below: The festival website can be found here.

Periphery have released a new video, entitled Icarus Lives. The video can be viewed below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTuTQCyX_Qo&feature=player_embedded

[/CENTER] Do you think the global metal community has finally gotten to know you? I wouldn’t know. To mention google again, if you search for the name of the band on the net you find results from numerous different countries so at least to an extent it seems so. But I’d imagine that in...

Trail of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance Napalm Records - 2009 By Jen Larner Sitting in the silent area of your nearest library, you’ll feel pretty smug about getting away with listening to this album. Does this sum up the vibe of the record? Unfortunately, yes. Bloodstained...

[/CENTER] In response, the Video Recordings Act 1984 was rushed through parliament, making video certification a legal requirement. While such measures aimed at gratifying the moral crusaders were being concocted, the police had the power to confiscate any material they believed to be in...

Roadrunner's Mutiny Within have been busy. They recently sent UM the following updates: Mutiny Within's first single "Awake" was officially released today on Amazon and iTunes. They'll be filming the music video for the song tomorrow (Friday, 11/20) in New Jersey with director Patrick Kendall...

[/center] This never as clear as in the gallic duo’s recently released sophomore album, Concrete. “We really had very precise ideas of what we wanted and never gave up until we got it exactly”, I Snor says of the recording. “So from the moment our brains had created a...

The Moon And The Nightspirit – Osforras Equilibrium Music - EQM023BK - 2009 By Simon Brand I've never really been one for folk. My first real contact with it was in the form of various folk metal acts, which I often found derivative and not particularly interesting. It has only been...

Madder Mortem – Eight Ways Peaceville Records - 2009 By Simon Brand I have often found female-fronted metal bands put more emphasis on the gender of the singer than the actual music or their voice. "Look at us, we've got a woman singer!". I have also noticed that most of these vocalists...

Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs Code666 – code040 – 27 March 2009 By Simon Brand Since Alcest released their 2007 album Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde, Neige has been at the forefront of the modern shoegaze-metal movement. Creating a very accessible and melodic brand of pseudo-black...

The Wacken Open Air in its anniversary year – Sold out and still rocking on! The Wacken Open Air is going to be broadcast live on the Web via live stream again in 2009 – A joint project between ICS Festivalservice, CTS EVENTIM AG, Tempodome.com and rockalarm.de Wacken/Hamburg, 4 May...

Razor Of Occam[/center] So what else is there to know about Alex Antoniou? First, Antoniou likes to refer to himself as the “dodgy Greek.” If given a week to live as a woodland animal, Antoniou would jump at the chance to be a hibernating bear. He hopes to see the year that contact...

The Destiny Program – Subversive Blueprint Nuclear Blast – NB 1875-2 – 21 September 2007 by John Norby While The Destiny Program can be classed a pretty standard metalcore quartet for the most part, it must be said that on Subversive Blueprint – The 12-Point program To...

Sword Toward Self – Dissolution Mantras Unsigned – 01 November 2008 by John Norby The first thing you assume about Australia’s Sword Toward Self upon first glance at the packaging of their debut EP Dissolution Mantras is – doom band! From the flowing, mystic logo to...

KYPCK – Cherno Century Media – 9978062 - 21July 2008 by John Norby First off, I absolutely despise albums that autorun a Flash video every time you fire it into the computer CD drive. Normally you get around it, but with this frustration-inducing little nugget I couldn’t get...

Deflore - Egodrive Subsound Records – SSR 006 – 25 March 2008 by John Norby In my experience it can be quite difficult for instrumental bands to hold the attention of listeners for the duration of an album unless they have something really special in the mix. All too often I have...

Bloodbath – The Fathomless Mastery Peaceville – CDVILEF242P – 6 October 2008 by John Norby Yes, folks… Bloodbath are back with another lesson in total death metal savagery, and arguably their finest to date. The Fathomless Mastery sees the band honing their craft...

Aletheian – Dying Vine Ironclad Recordings – 3984-14664-2 –13 May 2008 by John Norby It’s pretty much a fact of metal these days that a vast proportion of bands like to play on the technical side of the fence and, while that’s all well and good, there’s a...

Avenie - A Long Winding Road To The Present By Russell Garwood "Avenie is a surprisingly old Finnnish metal band; due to drastic line-up changes there are no original members left in the band anymore" begins composer, singer and guitarist Matti Auerkall. "Quite soon after joining the band as...

Various Artists - Endzeit Bunkertracks IV Alfa Matrix - AM1126FCD - February 2009 By Russell Garwood I'm not usually a fan of massive compilations; more often than not there is no cohesion, as disparate acts fly by and - while it's good for picking up on new bands - the album doesn't stand...