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DEVIL’S ISLAND featuring Bela Fool

Welcome to this weeks edition of Devil’s Island! Every week we maroon a band or artist on the island and see what they get up to, how they cope with being all alone on a small island in the middle of the ocean. It’s not your average desert island and we’ll see just how each person copes with the extreme conditions.

This week when we arrived at Devil’s Island we find Bela Fool sat on the beach. The island is far from their home, so how did they end up here and how did they cope with life on Devil’s Island?

Find out now…

Welcome to The Razors’e Edge and our somewhat lovely, warm desert island. Don’t worry about it’s name I’m sure it’s not as bad as that would suggest.

You’re marooned here on this island, but before you ended up shipwrecked you chose one album that you couldn’t live without. Which album did you each chose and why?

Sye: Does it count if it’s a compilation CD with my fav songs? Who even burns CDs anymore ay. Jokes aside if I had to choose a single album top to bottom right now it would be Dark Side Of The Moon. Ain’t saying I won’t eventually get bored of it or would listen to it on repeat but it’s been the album that when I’ve needed it it’s always been there for me.

Jordan: My album would have to be Abraxas by Santana. I discovered this album when I was 14 and I’ve played it multiple times a year for decades now. It’s only nine tracks, but it has a flavour for pretty much every musical sense. Every track brings something different, but it all fits together seamlessly, with Santana’s singing guitar running through the whole thing. A true masterpiece.

Jonas: One album (of many) that I would have to bring with me would have to be ‘…and out come the wolves, rancid’. There’s nothing like some good old ska-punk when you’re stuck on a desert island.

Just behind that palm tree is a shack for each of you to sleep in, with enough space for you to put up a poster on the wall of one album cover. What album cover do you each chose and why?

Sye: For a desert island it sounds like getting some preeeeetty comforts. Strictly talking graphics Abraxas or Supernatural by Santana definitely win the spot! I mostly like the music in there too, but mostly I’d choose them cause of them bright colours and imagery that would keep the mood up and the monotony of the island interesting.

Jordan: For the album cover on my shack wall, I’d probably go with Abraxas. What a cover! What? Sye too? No way. There’s only space for one Abrades in this town!

Jonas: Hmmm I would have to say ‘Metallica kill em all’ because it’s cool as funk but also it will remind me to stay vigilant whilst on this exhibition and that any time a predator jumps out on us it gets shot with the crossbow I’d been crafting since arriving.

There’s also a bar on this here island. But alas each of you only get to choose one drink for the entirety of your stay. What’s your tipple of choice?

So you’re telling me that I can live rent free, tax free in a place with zero annoying people with a bar? Strand me there now!

Sye: Deffo a Long Island ice tea. I want them booze, it all and I want it now!

Jordan: My drink would be soda water with fresh lime and three shots of vodka. It’s important to stay hydrated, but it’ll also be sooo boring, so why not make it fun?

Jonas: A bar?! On a deserted island?! Okay, okay. well in that case I’ll take a nice cold Madri, I don’t think I could get bored of them. I would have said Guinness but that wouldn’t sit so well when getting chased by tigers…  

Your suitcases were lost when your ship sank, but you each managed to salvage one item of band merch. What’s the merch and for what band?

Sye: Any band? Kiss air guitar strings

Jordan: We could use the pins as fishing hooks, they might reflect sunlight and attract the attention of passing planes, and if we get really bored we could tattoo each other. Multi-purpose merchandise.

Jonas: The merch I saved was a capo for Jordan because he always loses them, I think he’s on his 24th capo just this year!

You’re sat on the island thinking “I’m stuck here on this island with my bandmates for eternity”… who would you rather have been shipwrecked with?

Sye: Mhhhhhh good question, maybe someone I’d share my bed with after downing so many Long Island at the island bar! Gimme enough long islands I might even be fine with the bandmates…

Jordan: My missus and daughter, obviously. I’d be thinking about them and they’d want to be with me wherever I was. But if they’re not allowed on the island, I’m having Bear Grylls. He’d probably be quite useful.

Jonas: Probably Bear grylls or Martin (gym you don’t know Martin?) or someone like that I guess to make things easier, either that or Margot Robbie. Actually now thinking about it… definitely Margot Robbie, as long as I bring some Bear grylls books with me in the meantime.

There’s a walkman in your pocket, on the tape inside is the recording of the one live show that stands out for you. It could be any show, from any band, anywhere in the world. What show is on that walkman?

Sye: Close call between Led Zeppelin live at MSG in ’73 and Avatar at Wacken 2015. Maybe Zeppelin as it’s a longer show so it’d take more time to get bored of it.

Jordan: The live show on my Walkman would be Woodstock. The entire three-day concert. That’s a lot of songs.

Jonas: Our Pipeline show back in October 2025.

You’re getting desperate, you decide the only course of action is to put a message in a bottle and hope someone finds it. Your message could be to any member of any band, but should be the most suitable for a rescue attempt. Who is it?

Sye: Keanu Reeves plays bass right? Send him over now!

Jordan: The message in the bottle would go to my mate who’s in a local band. He’d definitely want to help. Or maybe he’d just like to see me suffer. Ha. I don’t know. I’d just write: “WE’RE F*CKED. SEND HELP.”

Jonas: In this case I’d have to send a message in a bottle to Jordan, he’s basically like a Jason Statham type of super man. He’d be swinging from trees and hunting prey no doubt. What? Jordan is stranded with us? We’re doomed.

You’ve been stuck here a while and food supplies are running low. There’s only one thing for it… which fellow band member gets sacrificed to help the others survive?

Jordan: Have to be Sye. He’s got massive legs. They’d last us a while. I like Sye a lot though, so I’d only eat the bottom half. I’d keep him safe from predators and, if a passing boat went by, we could use him as a float.Everyone wins.

Jonas: I hate to say it but it would have to be Sye as he has the most meat on him which as long as Jordan isn’t greedy; it should last us a couple weeks.

Sye: What a loooovely bunch of bandmates. Y’all can try, but imma go full Tarzan way before we start to starve. Ya got to fight my army of Gorillas before getting to me!

Finally, when the ship sank you each managed to save one person from the wreckage. That person is the one musician that has influenced your career the most, shaped your way of thinking and your outlook on life. Who did you save?

Sye: Tough question, my favourite guitarists do very different things from how I play! And no one really influenced me as a role model, I don’t care too much of trying to be someone else. It’d be fun to be stranded on an island with Jimi Hendrix for sure tho.

Jordan: Who did I save from the sinking ship? A ship is sinking. I’m looking to save my loved ones. I mean, thanks for the inspiration, but you’re on your own, muthafuka.

Jonas: I saved… Jack black

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Less than a month prior the release of their Cathedral Speech record, Spirit Possession offer in listening the second new track in advance titled “The Sharpening”.
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Their second new song in over a decade.

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Absolute Power has shared the title track and music video of its forthcoming second album, Needs Must When The Devil Drives, due Nov. 6 via Time To Kill Records. The song features former Judas Priest and Iced Earth vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens, who contributes his unmistakable screams to one of the album’s most powerful statements.

For Absolute Power’s Shane Embury, the track is also deeply personal. “This song, whilst being title track of our new record, also talks about how both Simon and I grew up in the West Midlands listening to heavy metal of the 1980s — all the classics as you would expect,” Embury explains. “The areas where we both came from were very much industrial areas.

“Working-class families and for us, as teenagers, heavy metal was our escape from the everyday realities of our areas — you did what you had to just to get by. Needs must when the devil drives!”

Absolute Power is the project of vocalist and producer Simon Efemey and Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury, two heavy metal lifers who spent five years crafting the second album. Drawing on the timeless legacy of Judas Priest, Saxon, Black Sabbath, Dio, and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Needs Must When The Devil Drives combines old-school riffs, unforgettable melodies, and larger-than-life songwriting with the energy and attitude of 2026.

Efemey explains the album’s mission: “I want people to have a good time in the old school way. I want them to forget the mundane, boring or horrible parts of their jobs. I want them to forget themselves for a couple of hours.

“That’s what good music should allow us all to do.”

On the origins of the project, Efemey says: “When we did the first album, we wanted to make songs like our heroes — Judas Priest, Saxon, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal — everything we liked as kids. When we were on tour buses, we’d have a few drinks and start blasting old-school heavy metal like Black Sabbath or Dio. One day we said we should write our own tunes like that.”

For Needs Must When The Devil Drives, Efemey and Embury invited several respected musicians to contribute. Tim “Ripper” Owens returns after appearing on the debut record. The Mission and Tricky guitarist Mark Gemini Thwaite adds subtle layers and textures to several songs — “a little goth flavour,” in Efemey’s words — expanding the band’s traditional metal foundation. Also appearing are Napalm Death guitarist John Cooke and drummer Carl Stokes (whose career includes Cancer and The Groundhogs), along with Joe Taylor, Dominik Gryzbon and Ilsa Nielson on additional guitar duties.

The album also features a reinterpretation of Queen’s 1978 classic “Sheer Heart Attack,” preserving the original’s punk-driven energy while adding the unmistakable personality of Absolute Power.

Needs Must When The Devil Drives is available to pre-order here.

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Live Review: Kill-Town Death Fest – Friday

4th September 2026
Words: Sam Jones

My first band of the day were one of my most anticipated of the undercard with Seraphic Entombment, all the way from Alabama, United States. Having released Sickness Particles Gleam a few years ago they shot to the zenith of my favourite upcoming acts and as we gathered ready for them I wasn’t the only one thinking the same thing. They came onto that stage with power and energy and enough time to level the building; it’s hardly into the late afternoon and yet the black stage is positively teeming with bodies. There isn’t much interaction given their death/doom sound is best when immersion is fully released though they take their time to introduce themselves and thank the audience for coming to see them early in the day’s running. They were fantastic and are amongst my highlights for this year’s festival.

Talk about making an entrance. Disembodiment take to the Black Stage with vitriol and passion in droves given this is their first show in Europe. With seething riffs and a vocal performance they hardly stood still, Disembodiment truly live up to their namesake, hearkening mutilation and all things nefarious and viscous. You can tell just by watching them they’re ecstatic to be here, their frontman is insane, interacting with the crowd at the very front with joy in his boisterous vocals. It’s curious, Disembodiment are death metal through and through yet through their frontman’s energy and physical actions on stage they possess something akin to a Hardcore presence which is unique amongst Kill Town’s roster this weekend.

Due to logistical issues, Rottrevore and Degraved’s slots had to be switched; now while this wasn’t ideal for the former, it was wonderful for those looking to see the latter. With Disembodiment playing a short set it gave everyone a chance to eat, catch some breath and prepare for Degraved’s debut European performance, one that burst unto the Danish capital with fire and brimstone and slaughter. When one thinks of that precious old school death metal sound, Degraved are living avatars, sporting seething guitar work with drums cease fully pummelling our psyches away. The main stage sees people packed like sardines, looking to catch even a glimpse of Degraved’s set and the noxious atmosphere their sound propagates. They’re only a young band but you can tell they’re destined for big things given how tightly they play together, and how effortless the crushing and harrowing sound they champion is conveyed.

Ectovoid take to the Black Stage and amass a downright enormous crowd; truth be told every band here could have played the main stage if the crowds are anything to by; people sit along the stairs, they throng the bar, every side seat, only a slither of room to manoeuvre through the people. The band here bring drums and bass in spades with vocals agitating the air with volatile intonations.

Abhorrence are legendary amongst Finnish death metal circles and this evening marks a rare performance here at Kill Town. This was not a performance to miss, especially as we had Morbific frontman Jusa Janhonen hanging out with us, taking in the show. It’s that sense of shared community in the name of extreme metal that makes Kill Town the incredible hub it is. In addition, David Ingram and his wife were milling around, talking with people, exchanging great vibes. You could enter the Abhorrence show not knowing a single track and come away feeling like you got to truly know them as a band, what their aesthetic is, their stance on death metal. It doesn’t require great working out, only a love for devastation and adoration for everything macabre and rotting. Considering the age they are they’re remarkably tight, proving to the new guard there’s always something to learn. Everything about their performance feels right, that riff comes in at the right time, that scream is pitch perfect, those drums are the taut force they need to be etc.

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Italian modern melodic and symphonic metal outfit Temperance will release its new album, Arcani, on October 16th via Napalm Records. Today, their brand-new single, ‘The Tower: Lean Into Fear‘, kicks right in, diving deeper into the album’s overall Tarot-driven line. ‘The Tower: Lean Into Fear‘ hits with rocking riffs and the roaring vocal power of vocalist […]

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Saosin have shared their second track of 2026 in the form of ‘Just Be Honest’, and continued to deal out the heat in a stellar manner.

Sitting on the more caustic side of the band’s sound and dealing with liars and deceivers, it is a hard-hitting and hedonistic piece of post-hardcore. A further bridge between the band of 20 years ago and the people they are today, with plenty of rough and smooth vocal refrains and classic emo pulses, it’s just another absolute banger.

Guitarist Beau Burchell had this to say about the track:

“We knew there was something special about ‘Just Be Honest’ from the moment of its inception. It had that rare feeling early on where you just know a song is going to matter on an album.

“Hearing Cove’s vocals on it for the first time confirmed it, and then Phil [Sgrosso]’s leads gave it that extra push. The whole thing blossomed into something bigger than we imagined.

“This is really just the beginning of a much bigger body of work for us, a whole new era. We weren’t planning to share anything this soon, but we got so excited about where the music was heading that we couldn’t sit on it any longer.”

It follows on from ‘Starting Over Again’, which sounds a lot like this:

We caught up with the band at Slam Dunk Festival earlier this Summer, and you can watch that below:

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Jack Latham, the UK producer known as Jam City, recently assisted on Logic1000’s single “Jersey,” and he’ll release his own new album My World later this month. We’ve already posted the title track, which featurees Aidan, Bawo and Ox Eye. Yesterday, Jam City followed that track with “2am,” a new collaboration with the London singer-songwriter Gianna.

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In late November, Hellripper will be heading out across the pond for their first-ever shows in Canada. Blackened thrashers Shroud will be joining them as support.
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