Featuring former members of At World’s End, Fatal Recoil and In Chains, French metallers The Curse of Millhaven bring a furious metallic assault. The band claim their sound fuses influences from The Black Dahlia Murder, Aborted and All Shall Perish.
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Decapitiated: Sixth album to be released in September
Death metal merchants Decapitated will unleash a new album at the end of the summer. The beginning of the year ensured a busy calendar for the Polish band when they supported Lamb of God on their European tour and the new album will only help maintain their current profile.
HED(p.e.) – Evolution
The mid 90s was a time when rap-metal reigned. No matter how genre-crossing acts sprang up (usually from the US), the alternative record buying public clamoured for more. For the huge amount of (sometimes deserved) column inches afforded to Rage Against The Machine or Limp Bizkit, so many other bands worked just as hard on the fringes – Snot would have been bigger than everyone if not victims of tragic circumstance, while bands like Shuvel and Reveille now seem all but forgotten, but were as good as any.
OF ALLIES – Tempers EP
Together for only a year at the time of its release, ‘Tempers’ by UK alt-rockers Of Allies shows a strong sense of focus and of self-belief. The material doesn’t always show a great range of styles, but essentially this is a good thing – a sign of a band that know exactly what works for them, resulting in five numbers that include no unnecessary padding. Bringing much heaviness, their crunch oft balanced with an accessibility , the EPs opening track ‘Ghosts’ really makes a play for catching the ear as quickly as possible– and very much succeeds. From a clean intro comprising a couple of clean guitar chords and a soft, heart-rending vocal, the band quickly branch out into a somewhat rhythmic piece, led which drummer Danny Barrick, rattling off his snares with speed. This is intercut with a heavier chorus riff, the guitars adopting a dirty approach. While clearly comprised of three distinct parts, the bands strong feeling for melody gives everything a natural feeling of togetherness. It’s a tune that should appeal to fans of bands in the Chevelle mould – heaviness with a very tuneful undercurrent.
The Defiled unveil new Lego themed video
Ahead of their Sonisphere UK appearances this weekend, UK metal band The Defiled have unleashed a new Lego themed video clip for their song ‘Infected’, which can be streamed in full below.