10 songs you should hear now!
SERJ TANKIAN, HONKING ANTELOPE
Bet you never heard a song called this before! The fuzzy-headed fella with the big voice delivers the goods again on this walloping track.
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DOOMRIDERS, A CROOKED PATH
There ain’t nothing like some balls out, punk as fuck, low-end drenched, snarling rock n’ roll tinged metal – and here is the proof!
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POISON THE WELL, NERDY
A firm live favourite, the Floridian boys deliver this beast with the kind of sincerity that could make a grown man cry. Not us though…
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JOB FOR A COWBOY, CONSTITUTIONAL MASTURBATION
Back with a vengeance, the Arizona deathcore crew demonstrate how to remove people’s heads with guitars and drums. ‘Ouch’ would be an appropriate word here…
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CATTLE DECAPITATION, THE GARDENERS OF EDEN
If you like your savage death-grind with a distinctly vegetarian edge then this track’s for you. Everyone else will be steamrollered into oblivion. So there.
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CHIODOS, THE UNDERTAKER’S THIRST FOR REVENGE IS UNQUENCHABLE
It’s screamy, it’s catchy, it’s heavy, and it’s damn good! Showing there’s some life in the screamo/metalcore camp yet, Chiodos kick everyone’s arse!
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LAMB OF GOD, CONTRACTOR
Yikes. That’s worth restating: Yikes. If you like your metal metal – and we mean seriously metal – then you’re about to cream your pants…
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DESPISED ICON, THE SUNSET WILL NEVER CHARM US
Brutal as fuck and twice as ugly, this is an exercise in how to make a big man’s nads leap back up inside him…
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ZOMBI, SPIRIT ANIMAL
Zombi are probably the best band you’ve never heard, and they’re back again concocting magnificent analogue synth soundscapes to die for. Check’em out.
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SKINDRED, TROUBLE
Everyone loves Skindred – no arguing, okay? And with compulsive slabs of titanic ragga-fied metal such as this, it’s very clear why…
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