Artist: Neaera Album: Neaera Genre: Metalcore Country: Germany Release Date: 28th of February, 2020 Released via Century Media Records Cover Artwork © Century Media Records, 2020 Life can be strange sometimes. People enter and leave your life and in retrospect you don’t know why. You had a good time, the memories last for your lifetime but the time spent with these people is rather short. In the early 2000s, Metalcore was THE thing. Bands like Killswitch Engage or As I Lay Dying were everywhere and Parkway Drive were at their heels. But not only American bands wer ..read more

Band: Norma Jean Release: Deathrattle Sing For Me Genre: Metalcore Country: USA Release Date: 12th of August, 2022 Released via Solid State Records Cover Artwork Solid State Records Three years after All Hail and nearly exactly 20 years after their debut album Bless the Martyr & kiss the Child, Norma Jean are back with their new album Deathrattle Sing For Me. Through the course of their career, Norma Jean changed their musical direction and focuses several times. Their first two albums were some kind of finding process, somewhere between Coalesce and Botch. Redeemer estab ..read more

Bands: Incendiary Release: Change The Way You Think About Pain Genre: Hardcore/Metalcore Country: USA Release Date: 26th of May, 2023 Released via Closed Casket Activities Cover Artwork Daniel Danger Long Islands finest Incendiary return with their newest catalogue entry Change The Way You Think About Pain after an absence of almost 6 years after releasing Thousand Mile Stare in 2017. Once again produced by multi – talent and the go-to producer guru for most contemporary core bands of the last years, Will Putney, rest asssured that this collection of ten new tracks packs quit ..read more

Band: Peasant Album: Kingdom Genre: Metalcore Country: South Africa Release Date: 28th of May 2021 Released via Self-Released Cover Artwork © Peasant, 2021 One album and several EPs into their career, Peasant‘s new EP Kingdom hits as hard as you’d expect from the South African Metalcore outfit. 10 seconds in I instantly get a smile on my face, when the drums start and a short „AAARGH“ gets this thing going. Metalcore is a genre that was and still often is pronounced as dead, although a lot of bands still put out joy-sparkling EPs like this one. If in your heart there is spac ..read more

Band: Voices Album: Breaking the Trauma Bond Genre: Black-Metal, Metal, Rock Country: UK Release Date: 26th of November, 2021 Released via: Church Road Records Cover Artwork: © Church Road Records Breaking the Trauma Bond is the fourth album by the London beyond everything band Voices and their debut on Church Road Records (who did an excellent job in releasing this great record a few months ago). While listening to this record, there were a lot of “Where did that come from”-moments. A song can begin like an early 2000s Metalcore song, get right in a Black Metal part ..read more

Artist: Black Corona Album: The Mission Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore Country: Innsbruck, Austria Release Date: 21st of May Released via Art Gates Records Cover Artwork © Art Gates Records, 2020 Those who like genre classics such as Caliban, Mnemic and Killswitch Engage can now find a worthy successor. Coming from Innsbruck (Tyrol) and founded in 2017 (they could have never guessed the connection between their name and the current situation obviously), Black Corona have now found their way under the flag of Art Gates Records presenting us vocalist and guitarist Mario Fe ..read more

Band: Embitter Album: 1134 Genre: 90’s Metalcore Country: Poland Release Date: 14th of August 2020 Released via: The Coming Strife Records Cover Artwork: © The Coming Strife Records Today’s article is about a release that I have been looking forward to for quite some time and that was eagerly awaited by me. I’m talking about the Polish 90’s Metalcore Combo Embitter, who have finally released a longplayer with 1134. I listened to the demo and EP almost up to level by memory and I have already organized the band myself in Weimar and found it to be very intense. Even though yo ..read more

Artist: Norma Jean Album: All Hail Genre: Metalcore Country: USA Release Date: 25th of October, 2019 Released via Solid State Records Cover Artwork © Solid State Records 2019 Everybody loves watching a good, long running series. With every new season the plot continues, new characters get introduced, old characters, who grew close to your heart, develop further and from time to time there are some neat story twists no one saw coming. However, unfortunately, not all series can hold their level of quality. Cast changes, beloved characters leave/die/get replaced and so, the interest in the series ..read more

Bands: Motionless in White – Skold Date: 21/11/19 Location: Essigfabrik (Cologne) Promoter:  Kingstar Music, Live Nation The American Metalcore band Motionless in White are on their The Disguise Tour right now and I visited their show on the 21st of November in the Essigfabrik (Cologne). The Essigfabrik, which served as a production facility for vinegar, is now well-known for events and concerts for Metal, Hardcore and Punk bands. The opening act was the Swedish Industrial-Rock musician Tim Skold. He was bassist/guitarist and co-producer of Marilyn Manson for several years ..read more

Artist: Killswitch Engage Album: Atonement Genre: Metalcore Country: USA Release Date: 23rd of August, 2019 Released via Metal Blade Cover Artwork © Metal Blade 2019 “A friend in need is a friend indeed.“ Everyone who has ever listened to Placebo knows these words (the song is “Pure Morning” by the way). Friendship isn’t about laughing all time, it should be, but real friendship means sticking together when times get rough. Good friends will tell you, when you screwed up, but their worth lies in giving good advice on the one hand and listening to you, when you just want to talk on the other. K ..read more