Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH have entered Sweetspot Studios in Sweden to record their ninth studio album and follow-up to their highly acclaimed and Grammy Nominated album, The Violent Sleep Of Reason.The band comments, “Things are happening. As some of you figured out we have entered Sweetspot Studios and have begun recording a new album. ::Spoiler:: There will …
Read More »Download 2018 – Sunday
Starcrawler kicked the proceedings on second stage at Downoad off with a set where the attention was clearly focussed on their painfully thin singer Arrow de Wilde. I suspect it’s mainly an act as she staggers around and generally comes across like she’s off her head on drugs. She chokes …
Read More »Meshuggah – O2 Academy, Bristol, 12/01/2017
Colder than a polar bear’s backside, the threat of snow overnight and more than a little bit damp – it can only be UK gigs in January. It’s the first concert of the year for Bristol’s O2 Academy, the first date of the headliner’s UK tour and whilst it’s not …
Read More »HELLFEST 2015 first announcement and 3 days tickets on sale now!
Hellfest have announced 128 bands for next years festival and the 3 Day tickets are now on sale ONLY on their website and on the Digitick website. The price is the same than last year, 185 € (plus taxes and commission). SLIPKNOT, SCORPIONS, FAITH NO MORE, JUDAS PRIEST, ZZ TOP, …
Read More »MESHUGGAH announce 25th anniversary shows – London Roundhouse date
Sweden’s technically intoxicating extreme metal masters, MESHUGGAH, are bringing their immense live show to Europe this December to celebrate their 25th year of musical deviance. MESHUGGAH will play a very special 25th Anniversary set, performing selections from their 1989 – 2012 discography including some rare songs that haven’t been played …
Read More »MESHUGGAH Celebrate 25 Years With ‘I’ Special Edition Re-Issue
Continuing with the momentum of celebrating their 25-year anniversary, Sweden’s extreme metal deviants MESHUGGAH proudly announce the upcoming re-issue of 2004’s one song EP, I, via Nuclear Blast on 29th September. Album artwork & concept are courtesy of MESHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake, who comments on the EP’s mutant resurrection: “This 21 …
Read More »MESHUGGAH New Live DVD/Blu-Ray Details Revealed
Commemorating the 25-year anniversary since the recording of their first EP, Sweden’s extreme musical deviants MESHUGGAH have announced the artwork and the track listing to their upcoming live DVD / 2-CD release The Ophidian Trek, released 29th September on DVD and also available in Blu-ray. With visual footage shot …
Read More »Graspop 2014 adds Rob Zombie, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and 18 more acts
Graspop Metal Meeting 2014 has just announced 22 new names for this year’s massive event. Rob Zombie, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Alice in Chains, Mastodon and Meshuggah and many more have bolstered an already solid bill that features Black Sabbath, Avenged Sevenfold, Volbeat, Sabaton and Soundgarden. The new bands added are …
Read More »Dagoba – Post Portem Nihil Est
A decade on from their self-titled debut album, French industrial metallers Dagoba have found themselves having to undergo something of a re-invention for this, their fifth full-length album – and not least because of the sudden and controversial departure last year of founder Izakar, whose guitar sound many fans and …
Read More »Wacken Open Air 2013.
The 24th Wacken Open Air takes place on the 1st to 3rd August 2013.
Read More »MONUMENTS – “Gnosis”
If you think back to bands such as SixTh then this genre of ultra tech/ djent has been around for some time, however, with bands such as TesseracT, Periphery and Meshuggah perhaps bringing it more to the public eye and out of the groove Metal shadows, it can be no …
Read More »Memories Of A Dead Man – ‘V.I.T.R.I.O.L.’
Now and again, an album comes along that genuinely surprises you. Having read the press blurb that accompanied this sophomore release from French six-piece MOADM, I was fully expecting to write them off as another bunch of Meshuggah wannabes. Well, how pleasantly surprised I was with what I actually discovered, …
Read More »Meshuggah/Animals as Leaders/We are Knuckle Dragger – Live Review
When you see the names Meshuggah and Animals as Leaders you know you’re in for an evening of intense, mind-blowing music. Tonight’s show took place at the Concorde 2 in Brighton and with a 600 capacity the show was sold out and filled with people in which I can only …
Read More »Shattered Skies – Pianomation (E.P)
Shattered Skies are a self confessed “groove metal” band from Wicklow, Dublin, Ireland. Drawing influences from bands as diverse as Meshuggah, Pantera, Nightwish and Nine Inch Nails they have successfully created a unique sound good enough to propel them to first place in the Got-Djent New Band competition which …
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