The world was introduced to Antlered Man in 2012 with debut album ‘Giftes 1&2’. Rave reviews and award nominations followed the release, alongside 100+ tour dates and 15 festivals in 2012 alone.
With influences spanning The Melvins, Tool, Mike Patton, Shellac & Clutch, their unique mix of punk, metal, prog, hardcore and alt rock...
A stoner rock onslaught of monumental riff sorcery and serpentine grace, Black Moth rose from the Leeds underground scene at the end of the last decade, indulging their love for both Sabbath sulphur and Stooges squalor. Their debut 'The Killing Jar', which was released in 2012, effortlessly transcended its influences to arrive at a...
Cut Yourself In Half are the latest batch of Young British riff merchants, and frankly these four guys are a metal machine of quite ferocious proportions. Hailing from Bradford in the north of England, they’ve been honing their, since releasing their download only debut for NHS ‘Say Goodbye ToThe World’. Said single managed to get...
Limb told us over a vodka snakebite cocktail, that they wanted to play “fucking heavy”. This they most certainly do, though there is a little more to it than that. Hooks will hook you. Grooves will groove you. Grimm (sic) tales from the dark brain of vocalist Rob Hoey will unsettle you.
Limb have...
Three bastard children of Sabbath, creating downtuned, downtempo, stoner riff monsters that sound like the very London soil itself, shifting, groaning and rumbling into life.
Already these guys have been making waves on the heavy scene, having shared stages with Conan, Moss, Holy Mountain, Turbowolf . As well as being picked for the Desertfest,...
‘Transmaniacon MC’ is a track by the Blue Oyster Cult.
‘Transmaniacon’ is a science fiction novel by John Shirley.
These two pieces of art were to be fused together as project for a film of the novel. Some preliminary work was done, like-minded musicians were gathered and some hard and heavy music, was created for...
MWWB, are from Wrexham, North Wales, and were born from 3 other bands. Mother of Six, Warsisters and Baron La Croix.
Guitarist Dave and drummer Carrat (from Mother of Six) always wanted explore an extremely heavy doom/prog sound with female vocals, and when they met ex Warsister and solo musician Jess, who also...
Ex People are an primordial fuzz sludge four-piece, hailing from London. Combining growling bass, ethereal vocals, lurching drums and those off-kilter riffs you love so much, Ex People are both the immovable object and the unstoppable force.
Emerging from the London DIY scene, vocalist Laura and drummer Vicki first met playing in series of riot...
NHS are immensely proud to welcome London/Brighton heavy contingent GRAVE LINES to the NHS family, with the release of their second album ‘FED INTO THE NIHILIST ENGINE’.
Made up of Julia Owen, Jake Harding, Oliver Irongiant and Stgr’n Matt, Grave Lines are no strangers to the heavy music scene - previous bands include Throne, Sea...
VŌDŪN are a heavy, weird & soulful, afro-futuristic tribe from London - A raw and powerful slice of voodoo fuelled turbo-metal riffage not to be missed. After their debut album 'POSSESSION', highly acclaimed by the likes of Classic Rock, Mojo, Kerrang, Metal Hammer and The Guardian News Paper, VŌDŪN are excited to release their hugely...
Blacklab describe themselves as ‘the Dark Witch Doom Duo from Osaka Japan’.
However, when it comes to witches, they are more the spectral Sadako from ‘The Ring’ than campy ‘Countess Dracula’.
Chilling cool with built in overdrive.
Yuko and Chia are undoubtedly immersed in the Japanese stoner doom scene, and it’s no surprise that...
Formed in London in 2010, Cold in Berlin’s self-released debut album Give Me Walls was an Artrocker magazine album of the year. Mojo said it was “Impossible not to get sucked in by their dark whirlpool of noise,” while Loud and Quiet and Q argued over whether singer Maya was the new Patti Smith or...
Sky Valley Mistress are 4 young upstarts from Blackburn, Lancashire, who have been honing their chops over the years up & down the country, and showcasing their blistering live set at Download, Camden Rocks and Sound City along with supports with ‘The Subways’ Cadillac Three, Earthlings and ‘Band Of Skulls’ amongst others.
SVM play ferocious...
Heavy doom metal 4 piece from Birmingham, Alabama, Embr are one of those doom bands that are definitely going beyond genre stereotypes and doom tropes.
They have all requisite nuts and bolts in spades, massive drop-tuned guitars, chest rattling low end, pounding drums, fuzzy distortion, it’s all there. But these guys can also be subtle...
Mountain Caller are El, Claire and Max and hail from London. They describe themselves as a heavy progressive instrumental three-piece, who are driven to tell stories with music and want listeners to conjure up cinematic scenes in their minds.
And that they do … in spades.
If one needs a sonic ballpark, think the infectious...
TENEBRA are a four-piece from Bologna, Italy, and they are a hard and heavy stoner rock powerhouse, fronted by a seriously formidable singer. Full on fuzz meets 70’s style proto metal, add in the psych grunge of the 90’s underground, and you get Screaming Trees meets Fu Manchu and more. It must be said that...
Welcome to the sonic mayhem of punk trio Shooting Daggers. Sal, Bea and Raquel are a visceral amalgam of hardcore punk, riot grrrl and metalcore. They describe themselves as a feminist punk/queercore outfit who cite their influences as bands like Gouge Away, G.L.O.S.S, Turnstile and Gel. Quite frankly whoever they’re influenced by, Shooting Daggers’...
They Watch Us From The Moon are from Lawrence, Kansas, USA, The band describe their music as 'Cosmic Doom Opera' and as they're fans of 50's and 60's pulp sci fi and all, they have a whole story and a set of visuals to go with it.
It's like George Clinton's Funkadelic have set...
Death Pill, are an all-female hardcore punk power trio of considerable muscle, combining metalcore, punk rock and (like labelmates ‘Shooting Daggers’) oodles of ‘Riot Grrl’ vibe.
It’s significant how many female punk bands are using the stance and attitude of the ‘Riot Grrl’ movement as a touchstone for what they are about, but it doesn’t...
New York-based GUHTS (pronounced ‘guts’) declare themselves to be an ‘avant-garde post-metal project, delivering larger than life sounds through, deeply emotional music’.
Pointers can be made of course. By their own admission, GUHTS' musical style is influenced not only by iconic metal bands like Gojira, Cult of Luna, YOB and Deftones, but more unconventional...
