Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! This week there’s a bit of a twist. You’ll see what I mean. The topics of discussion are long first songs, and the intricacy of writing chug-heavy music that seems simplistic. Some of the discussed artists include Periphery, Machine Head, Native Construct and Heart of a Coward. Then, cool people time with Super Mario Maker 2. My maker ID is LPS-QH8-94G. Enjoy!
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked…
There aren’t many better illustrations of how interconnected the UK tech-metal scene is than a glance at Heart of a Coward’s family tree. Before their inception, drummer Christopher Mansbridge was part of djent pioneers Fellsilent, whose demise also brought Tesseract and Monuments to life as full bands rather than side-projects.…
The Load In The gig drought continues. Admittedly, I was out of the country (again) for a good chunk of the month and, typically, almost everything I wanted to see in October happened whilst I was away. I was particularly annoyed to miss Sleep Token’s first headline show, taking place…
The UK is built for boring weather; the kind of weather where it’s not really nasty enough to warrant staying inside, but not really nice enough to make it worth going out, either. Basically, weather we can grumble about in queues before we get bored and go off and colonise…
You can’t download a show. It’s no understatement to say that the internet changed almost everything. Today, imagining a world without Wi-Fi is tantamount to imagining a world without cars – we probably could just about manage, but everything would take an awful lot longer. Certainly, the way we discover,…
Our newest writer Simon Clark is a regular attendee of the annual UK Tech Fest. Below, Simon highlights eight qualities of the festival he’s noticed over the years. Click here for info on bands, venues, tickets and more. … Familiarity The inaugural Tech Fest weekend was held in a small…
Not content with appearing at this years Download and Euroblast festivals, SikTh have just announced a full UK headlining tour with support from Heart Of A Coward and Idiom. From someone who caught the tail end of their set at Download 2003 (yes, I had impeccable taste even as a…
Bleed From Within Release Video For ‘Uprising’ & Free Download