On This Day In Metal

🌮 WHAT’S ON THE MENU AT ARCTANGENT 2026? 🍔🔥

ByMichael Aug 14, 2026 0 60 9 min read

RIFFS. CHAOS. QUESTIONABLE SLEEP. ABSOLUTELY BANGING FESTIVAL FOOD. ArcTanGent 2026 is nearly upon us, and while most of us are currently obsessing over clashes, checking the tent for mysterious holes and wondering whether we really need six band shirts for…

Band Bios – Meet The Legends Behind The Riffs

🤘🇨🇾 ZIVANISHED: CYPRIOT METAL, BOUZOUKI, CHAOS & 100% PURE HEAVY MADNESS

ByMichael Aug 14, 2026 0 74 9 min read

There are bands that play metal. There are bands that experiment with metal. And then there’s Zivanished — a band who looked at thrash, hardcore, punk, Middle Eastern music, Cypriot culture, bouzouki, belly dancers, fire dancers and gloriously questionable humour…

New Album Released

💀🔥 TECH-DEATH METALLERS VICTIMS OF CONTAGION PREPARE TO UNLEASH NEW ALBUM ‘EGREGORE’

ByMichael Aug 14, 2026 0 58 7 min read

Pittsburgh technical death metal wrecking crew VICTIMS OF CONTAGION are preparing to unleash their new album, Egregore — promising hyper-speed extremity, neoclassical madness, blackened tremolo assaults and grooves heavy enough to rearrange your internal organs. 🤘💀 Yep. Sounds suitably horrible.…

New Single Released The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

🇮🇹🔥 ITALIAN HEAVY ROCKERS SBARCO UNLEASH NEW SINGLE & VIDEO “THE DIVORCE”

ByMichael Aug 14, 2026 0 84 5 min read

Italian heavy rockers SBARCO are back with fresh noise, unveiling their brand-new single and accompanying video, “The Divorce” — and judging by the title alone, we’re guessing nobody’s getting the good plates. 🤘😈 Italy has never exactly struggled when it…

Gig & Tours

🤘 ALLEGAEON & GOROD BRING ‘TECH IT EASY!’ UK TOUR THIS SEPTEMBER — WITH DEFECTS JOINING THE CHAOS 🔥

ByMichael Aug 14, 2026 0 56 6 min read

Six cities. Three seriously heavy bands. More technical riff wizardry than should probably be legal before closing time. UK metalheads, get those neck muscles warmed up because Allegaeon and Gorod are heading our way this September for the ‘Tech It…

Band Bios – Meet The Legends Behind The Riffs

SWAMPFOOT: Two Dudes, One Bass and One Monstrous Sack of Noise 🤘🔥

ByMichael Aug 14, 2026 0 82 6 min read

Sometimes you don’t need three guitarists, seventeen pedalboards and enough equipment to bankrupt a small festival. Sometimes you just need two blokes, a bass guitar, a drum kit and an unreasonable amount of aggression. Welcome to SWAMPFOOT. 💥 Hailing from…

Band Bios – Meet The Legends Behind The Riffs

HKSPK — Band Biography

ByMichael Aug 14, 2026 0 76 3 min read

HKSPK are a Black/Death Metal band from Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2023 by Jim, Leon and Arne. Combining the cold atmosphere of black metal with the crushing weight of death metal, the trio have developed a sound built around direct…

New Album Released

🤘 HKSPK ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ‘HEIMKEHR’ — 25 MINUTES OF BLACK/DEATH METAL BRUTALITY ARRIVING THIS SEPTEMBER 🔥💀

ByMichael Aug 14, 2026 0 68 6 min read

Brandenburg black/death metal wrecking crew HKSPK are preparing to unleash their new full-length album, Heimkehr, on 11 September 2026 — and if you like your metal cold, vicious and utterly uninterested in behaving itself, you’ll want this one on the…

Band Bios – Meet The Legends Behind The Riffs

🤘 MAIDENHEAD UNLEASH THE THRASH: Massachusetts Metallers Enter a New Era With Maximum Clonage

ByMichael Aug 14, 2026 0 73 10 min read

Massachusetts thrash/death metal wrecking crew Maidenhead are charging into their next chapter with riffs sharpened, touring miles under their belts and some seriously heavyweight metal names joining the carnage. Formed in 2013, Maidenhead have spent more than a decade building…

Gig & Tours

🤘 THE KARMA EFFECT HIT THE ROAD! ‘CRUEL INTENTIONS’ TOUR KICKS OFF THIS OCTOBER 🔥

ByMichael Aug 14, 2026 0 73 5 min read

If your October calendar was looking a little too sensible, The Karma Effect have just sorted that right out. 🤘🔥 The British rockers are getting ready to take their Cruel Intentions album out on the road, with the first leg…