Given the current state of the world, I think we all need something to cheer ourselves up- whether it’s a new hobby, a beloved album or a film marathon to...

MMH Radio are looking at the album releases of 1980 that rocked our world on a retrospective month by month basis which include contributions from our team members . This...

Anyone for tennis, the latest solo album by The Electric Boys frontman is definitely about love and matching up, but also tackles the problems about living with the high expectations...

From Kansas City, Missouri, proggy stoner/sludge quartet Hyborian recently released their second album. Coming three years after Vol. 1 (almost to the day), Hyborian follow in the footsteps of The...

I first heard about London sludge mob Beggar around six weeks ago while in the pub one afternoon with a couple of musicians who were also in the sludge/stoner/doom scene...

Åskväder – self-titled album review   Swedish rockers Åskväder released their debut self-titled album this month through The Sign records. The band, formed in 2018, consists of Alex Mayr on...

Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band, who started in 1984. These guys have dipped into Groove, Thrash and Death Metal, and have given us such songs as "Roots Bloody...

Since coming to life in 2005, hard rock provocateurs In This Moment have presided over a diehard fan base under the watch of a familiar “mother” figure frontwoman Maria Brink—joined...

Four years on from their last album, Dakesis are set to release their third studio album since their inception in 2008. While we are in tumultuous times, in a way,...

It's been three years since last full-length release of The Birthday Massacre. I bet that all fans of grim rabbits, violet and contrast of cute and evil were eagerly awaiting...

Blaze of Perdition returns with a new album. Polish black metallers from Lublin, once again offer a solid record full of melodic, yet harsh, black metal presented in their own,...

When casting your eye over the album artwork of The Ends Justify the Means you know you’re in for a good time. Who could possibly resist the typical metal tropes...

Back in 1981 two friends, both guitar players, formed a band and joined the ranks of the NWOBHM brigade. The friends were Robin Brancher and Keith Sharp and they called...

I first heard Lucifer a couple of years ago in the run-up to their second release, which as you could probably guess, was titled Lucifer II. Lucifer II was a...

Earache Presents: The New Wave Of Rock N Roll - compilation album review Earache Records presents some of the finest talent of today’s rock scene in a 15-track album ‘Earache...

Australian metalcore band Polaris released their new album "The Death of Me" in February, and it has already made quite the stir. I discovered these guys when they opened for...

White Stones’ first album, Kuarahy, was always meant to be a return to the roots for Martin Mendez – which means old school death metal, and brilliantly written, proggy heaviness...

Elvana - O2 Ritz, Manchester - 14.03.2020 If sadly you are still part of the world’s population that hasn’t had the pleasure of hearing the concoction that is Elvana, they...

With all the chaos and misery going on in the world currently, I think what everyone needs is a lift, and Chief State will provide that. The Vancouver-based quintet have...

Legend has it that many years ago a very talented man was born to change the history of music. And yes, despite and thanks to many adversities in his life,...

Paganland, is a pagan black metal, Lviv-based band that has had its rough patches in the past, yet remained strong thanks to Ruen, keyboardist and main brain behind the band,...

Human Impact as a band are a thrilling prospect, including members of bands who collectively take up a lot of space in my music collection. They are Chris Spencer (Unsane,...

Phantom Limb is an interesting and slightly bewildering proposition. It is slightly challenging to wrap my head around an album written decades ago with vocals added in the present day....

Metal to the Masses, the competition held on behalf of Bloodstock Festival is now an established event, not only here in the UK but also has heat’s in countries as...

This is my first review, but after hearing Caroline Blind’s brand new and 1st solo album – The Spell Between, I felt the urge to fire up the laptop and...

Vardis - 100 Club , London - Friday 13th March 2020. 100 MPH @100 Club What a few days it has been , it seems the zombie apocalypse has arrived...

Servant Leader - Raised By Wolves Part 1 EP Review   Servant Leader is the solo project of Leigh Oates, vocalist with Xilla, Order Of Voices, Soldierfield, Rise To Addiction...

My first visit to the Craufurd Arms in Milton Keynes tonight and this is due to me bottling the journey last Tuesday to Bilston. The floods, sleet and snow just...

Kicking off tonight at the Dead Wax in Digbeth was a highly anticipated event called Metal 2 The Masses Heat 1 in Birmingham. The evening was hosted by Ian And...

TOMORROW IS LOST – 'Therapy' album review Just a few years old, the Tyneside band Tomorrow Is Lost are quickly making a name for themselves as a hard working band...

I headed over to the Fuel Rock Club in Cardiff to catch up with Marw who played the New Blood Stage at Bloodstock Festival last year. The event was hosted...

For those who don’t know, Intronaut are a band from Los Angeles that play a mindbending, jazzy, highly technical style of metal, with elements of post-metal and stoner sludge. The...

Up-and-coming new band Our City Fires release their infectiously catchy second EP Foundations this week via independent release. Formed in 2018 and based in Leicester, the quintet is already storming...

Continuing our look back at albums released in 1980, let's have a look at  March which saw further rock albums being released , some were deemed important then and some...

Black Country doom/sludge trio King Corpse have picked up a real momentum in the last few years. Opening for Conan and Monolord a couple of years ago, expanding from the...

A Valentine's show from the players themselves, Hollywood Undead grace the stage of the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, London, for the first tour reaching the UK since they released...

It's February 23rd and Babymetal are taking to the stage in London, on their Metal Galaxy World Tour 2020. From what I've seen of Babymetal before, which has been exclusively...

You've had masks, pirate costumes, face paint and the rest from some of the biggest names in rock and metal. But I don't think I've ever seen a cast with...

Napalm Death have one of the strongest legacies in the history of metal, having established themselves as a leading light for grindcore in the late 80s before twisting and adapting...

The Ally Pally is not the easiest of places to get to, and although it claims to be the 3rd largest capacity indoor venue in the capital that does not...

Nick Oliveri has done well to keep himself busy and active in music over the years. Despite being fired from Queens Of The Stone Age back in 2004, he has...

Sleazy Way Out - Here Comes Trouble album review Released 4th Feb via Sliptrick Records, Canada's SLEAZY WAY OUT's second album 'Here Comes Trouble' comes almost 5 years to the...

Formed in 2018 and hailing from Athens in Greece, Witchcrawl are the embodiment of a band striving to capture the nostalgia and charm of traditional heavy metal. Recorded in 2019...

Initially, this was going to be a relatively long review regarding German Quintet Givers new album. Then I decided that i was writing a load of crap. So I thought......

Starting off an exciting night of pop punk nostalgia are newcomers to the scene: Not Ur Girlfrenz. An all teen band hailing from Dallas, Texas, I was very curious to...

TEAR THE SKY WIDE OPEN (EP) I was so excited when SILVERTHORNE came on the scene last year, a huge fan of Brian Tichy, and purveyor of good music, I...

It’s fair to say that Starbenders have been making a noise that is gradually getting everyone’s attention. From joining an impressive roster of bands after signing with Sumerian Records last...

Hollywood Undead are back again with a new, reinvigorated album. The music still speaks their name and their message but New Empire, Vol. 1 is a complete re-imagination of their...

I got that feeling of excitement when I heard that this Norwegian punk/classic rock/blackened mob were releasing new songs. 2016’s ‘Nattesferd’ seemed so long ago. More songs! More live shows!...

Early doors at the Birmingham 02 Institute tonight as there are three bands on. Of course most routes into Digbeth are closed due to roadworks, so I have to rely...

London-based indie rock band Cheerbleederz release their second EP Lobotany today. The 3-strong band guides us on a syrupy sweet journey through their experiences as women in the modern world....

Never did I think I would get the chance to review a new album from one of my favourite performers, my idols, but here I am with the new GARY...

Well it’s finally here; a new Sylosis album. After a lengthy hiatus, the band are finally back and ready to regain their momentum they had years ago. Josh Middleton has...

The popularity of Voodoo Sioux hasn’t waned at all over the years and they have been going since 1991, although they did have a hiatus starting in 1997 for twelve...

Arguably one of the best bands coming out of the NWOCR generation, Those Damn Crows have finally put together a follow up to their highly prized debut ‘Murder And The...

Butlins, Minehead   24th - 26th Jan 2020 This was the third time we've attended this annual Rock Fest in (probably) one of the most unlikeliest venues you'd ever think of...

Brummie doomers Voidlurker seem to have appeared out of nowhere (perhaps from out of the void) in the last couple of years. Playing the Metal 2 The Masses Final in...

Combining and merging different music styles and genres is not an easy task. It's almost like cooking, you add a bit too much salt and you end up with inedible...

Converge’s landmark album, Jane Doe, is the best break up album of all time. A hurricane of anguished, chaotic, metallic hardcore clearly influenced by frontman Jacob Bannon’s recent messy break...

Sing-A-Long with The Wildhearts! Tonight’s opening Act were Pennsylvania rockers ‘CKY’ and whosever idea it was to put them on at 6pm clearly thinks the Manchester Rock Scene needs to...