One of the most interesting and influential bands of the last ten years, alternative icons The Dillinger Escape Plan close the Saturday of Hevy Fest, despite severe sound technicalities, in their usual mind-blowing manner. Opening with a frantic 'Farewell, Mona Lisa', all five members of the band fly out of...

In the mood for a solid ass kicking? No? Well, tough shit.

Weekend Nachos unleash a whole pile of ass whoopin’ powerviolence and grind in the form of Worthless, an album that is anything but. Fourteen tracks are hurled at you with reckless abandon in just over 25 minutes time. In...

Californian metallers Suicide Silence have spent the last few years building a core and faithful following with their particularly brutal brand of deathcore. "The Black Crown", their third full-length, branches out from their base sound into more metallic territory while losing none of its head-crushing edge and, as a result...

There are two ways to look at a "cover" release by a band: they need "new" material out there for public consumption or they want to celebrate and honor pertinent and personal influences. _History Repeats..._ is undeniably in that second grouping for Dying Fetus without discussion. Objections summarily overruled.Not a...

2010 was a hell of a year for Singapore’s Wormrot. Their debut album, Abuse, leveled grind-core fans worldwide with a throw-back, snarling ferocity and unrelenting delivery. It was an homage to everything that I love about grind â€" short, violent tracks delivered at break-neck speeds.

What more could you want really?...

It’s taken until this latest release from Trap Them for me to fully get into their material. The band’s blend of Converge and Cursed just didn’t float my boat. I mean, yeah, they delivered the goods with plenty of energy and aggression, but so did the bands they were emulating...

Man, I’m all for some crazy timing and sequencing in a song, but what Brooklyn’s Meek is Murder have done with their brash (and sometimes pretentious) blend of Converge, The Red Chord and The Dillinger Escape Plan, is just down-right nasty. Algorithms is a frenetic and cerebral trip through ten...

When the word "French" is applied to something, the initial images conjured up in the mind of most average people is something relatively artistic with some elegance and softness to it. Some may argue that these are common characteristics in French art of any kind, but the likes of Gojira...

What can you say about Finland’s Rotten Sound that hasn’t already been said two or three times in the band’s 17 years of existence? Not much. The only thing I can say about the group’s illustrious career is that they’ve never sounded better or more cohesive. Cursed is 16 tracks...

Harsh and gritty. Trap Them flaunts a beehive guitar approach with an aggressive, forcefully blunt technique, whereby this grind-y extremecore outfit have found a niche that seems to fit them perfectly. This newest construct from Seattle's four-piece extreme metalers finds itself surrounded with much anticipation. To that point, it has...