Midnight – Hellish Expectations (Metal Blade)
Midnight stink of leather, sweat, stale beer and vomit. Indeed, Athenar’s creation is more of a pheromone than... Read More...
With virtuoso guitarist John Bailey at the helm and Corrupt Moral Altar frontman Chris Reese behind the mic, Utopia turned extreme metal on its head with 2021’... Read More...
Plague Rider have been spreading their disease through the UK underground since 2011 – and since the release of 2023’s Intensities, their contorted, mutated an... Read More...
Utopia – Shame (Self-released)
Cacophonous.
Challenging.
Brutal.
Beautiful.
We threw those words around in response to Utopia’s debut, Stalker.
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From soulful occult rock to bar room boogie, black thrash to monastic doom, there’s plenty in store for ’24.
We shine the spotlight on 15 acts who are going... Read More...
With Knoll and Full Of Hell sparking interest from new quarters, and legendary acts such as Napalm Death and Wormrot hitting the road relentlessly, grindcore a... Read More...
The aftermath of the Coronavirus pandemic and the cost of living crisis made life tough for artists and fans. Yet 2023 saw the rock and metal scenes hit back i... Read More...
The UK and US scenes were hotbeds of creativity this year, and gave us works of richly diverse black metal.
Here, we take you through our best black metal a... Read More...
With the new wave of US death metal putting the spotlight back on underground DM, and acts like Undeath gaining real traction, there's a palpable sense of exci... Read More...
It’s been another vintage year for metal’s heaviest hitters with thrash metal’s enduring titans and the genre’s faithful newcomers adding some serious noise to... Read More...
Rich is a veteran of the heavy music scene and is widely considered one of the leading experts on doom, death and everything extreme. Rushonrock's deputy editor fulfilled the same role for HRH Mag and continues to forge a reputation as one of the UK's most informed and incisive metal writers.
