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"Never in my roughly 60-year long career as a touring/ gigging guitar player [have] I had to cancel a show or tour," the guitarist told fans regarding his My Whitesnake Years outing, which was set to begin August 3. Continue reading…

In wake of their soon-to-be-released long player World To Conquer, Americans Ironflame have premiered another new track in preview titled “Dynasties Fall”.
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Ultraviolet Parasite has been set as the official title of Frontierer‘s new studio record. It will be set free on October 23rd, 2026. Recorded, produced and mixed by Pedram Valiani. Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
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The Announcement: Earlier this morning, legendary guitarist Adrian Vandenberg sadly announced the cancellation of his around the corner North American Tour that would be celebrating his Whitesnake tenure along with … Continue reading Vandenberg Cancels “My Whitesnake Years” North American August Tour →

Go back to the '70s with 71 rarely seen candid photos of iconic celebrities, caught living everyday, in mostly unposed moments. Continue reading…

Bloodstock Bound: Martyrs Saint

As Bloodstock gets closer, we delve deep into the line up to find out more about some of the bands playing the New Blood and EMP stages at this years event.

Today we chat with Martyrs Saint

Please introduce yourselves.

Brandon- Lead Vocals and rhythm guitar 
Amaré- Lead Guitar and backing vocals 
Harv- Bass and backing vocals 
Louie- Drums

How would you describe your sound?

Very aggressive and dynamic 

How did you land your spot on the Bloodstock bill?

We were fortunate enough to win the Bristol M2TM

How tough was the competition this year?

Bristol is absolutely stacked with amazing bands and artists so this years competition was brutal, any one of us was deserving of a spot at Bloodstock.

What does playing at Bloodstock mean to you?

Honestly it’s the biggest privilege of our careers so far and we’re incredibly humbled to have the opportunity!

For people who’ve never seen you live, what can they expect at Bloodstock?

Mountains and mountains of energy on stage.

What day are you performing?

On the Friday

What other bands are you looking forward to watching at Bloodstock this year?

Lamb Of God, Biohazard, Sepultra and Judas Priest 

Playing the New Blood Stage is just the first steppingstone in a bands journey. What’s next in your plans for world domination?

Getting our nose to the grindstone and staying the course

Are you camping with the fans? Which campsite are you heading for?

Still to be determined in all honesty haha!

You’ve gotta keep hydrated at Bloodstock, what is your drink of choice for the weekend?

A healthy mix of water, caffeine and beer/cider 

See you at Bloodstock in a few weeks!

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Drummer Steven Sweet has dealt with a long list of serious ailments in recent years. Continue reading…

Welcome to Four Records! Each episode, we feature one guest as they discuss the four records that helped shape them at four different times in their life. This week, our guest is Todd Smailes from the bands Suburban Life and formerly Gentlemen Prefer Blood. In 2024, Suburban Life put out their debut EP, Sympathy Tracks. 

Todd Smailes’s Four Records:

0-10: Beach Boys- Pet Sounds

Teenage: Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction 

Twenties: The Weakerthans – Fallow

Recent Record: Lost Balloons – Self-Titled

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Opening song: Rad Skulls – Loud as Shit

Closing song: Lucas Perea – Underneath Ashes

Now that we're around the halfway point of the year, we're taking a look at our personal favorites. Continue reading…

As I snatch their sophomore, Monument aux morts from the jaws of the dormant Shark, the irony of reviewing an act called Viande¹ as a vegan is not lost on me. Fortunately, the meat they’re serving is of the metaphorical kind—brutal, nasty, chewy. After L’Abime dévore les âmes saw all souls eaten, a Monument to the dead comes in comiseration castigation for the misstep into that abyss. At first blush, Monument aux morts seems to follow also in its predecessor’s grimy doom-death-black stylistic tracks; but there’s more to the descent this time. Coming four years since Viande first crawled out of the earth, can it strike the death blow its predecessor narrowly missed?

Monument aux morts changes little about Viande’s culinary style, continuing to draw heavily from the Incantation school of death metal, though now with more prominent disorienting flourishes that vividly recall Thantifaxath (“Sacrifice Ardent,” “L’homme Brasier”). The atmospheric side leans closer to that of Praise the Plague—grand and menacing—on the slower end (“Linceul Immense,” “Une cage d’os”), and Ultha on the faster—vocals excepted—(“Germes de mort”). Together, these create a darker and more dissonant offering which in turn makes the omnipresent echo and whines of feedback that bleed tracks together feel even more smothering. Dense and heavy at fast as well as moderated tempos, Monument aux morts succeeds in creating a persistent aura of horror even as it wavers before the threshold of total envelopment.

Viande’s ability to unsettle has improved, thanks to deeper, more nuanced compositions. Guitars snake ominously and twist themselves into ever more gut-wrenching patterns (“Sacrifice ardent,” “Germes de mort,” “L’homme brasier”), whilst tremolos also slip more often into an eerie shiver (“Linceul immense”). The pervasive atmosphere uses reverb intelligently, without detracting from each song’s momentum, and often pulls in the horrifying sounds of screams (“Sacrifice ardent”) and strange synthetic whines (“L’esprit cachot”). Malevolent minor melody bleeds in as a short-lived, swaying foothold in the mire (“Une cage d’os”) of churning scales or feedback. Amidst the chaos, oddly compelling grooves take hold (“Linceul Immense,” “Cercueil de vase”). The culmination of these aspects is a consistently frightening texture, which peaks when it all combines to form thrilling, even darkly beautiful, shapes that step outside of a clear (sub-)genre boundary. At these times, Monument aux morts ceases to be merely a punishing, dirt-choked slab of blackened death-doom,², but a consuming miasma of discordant scales and impossible drums (“Sacrifice ardent,” “L’homme brasier”), or a rippling, oddly mesmerising chasm driven deeper through layers of rhythm and almost-melody (“Monolithe de chagrin,” “L’esprit cachot”).

And yet, Monument aux morts fails to maintain the vice grip on the listener it periodically holds. This is partly down to production that’s fittingly crushing and filth-encrusted for the album’s brutal death leanings, but thereby flattens the more prominent atmospheric side. Aside from above-noted highlights, and the odd sharp turns into the unusual, the majority of Monument aux morts’ eight movements progress along the same lines. The shared components—lurching from resonant tremolos into gallops, retreats to minimalistic whining and half-present drums, recurrent sludgy stomping—are effective in themselves. The issue comes with their repetition across a runtime that approaches an hour, where overlapping song transitions cause things to blur still further into an indistinct mass.

Viande are getting closer to the masterwork of horror they suggest they’re capable of. Despite being longer, Monument aux morts holds a more commanding presence than their debut and the germs of dark brilliance have grown to larger aspects that are truly gripping when they take over. All that remains is for Viande to stitch them together and give them the richer master their depths deserve.

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Rating: Good
DR: 6³ | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Transcending Obscurity Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: July 31st, 2026

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