GBHBL Interviews

UK five-piece hard rockers, The Rattlebacks’ debut album, ‘Sidewinder’, was released on November 15th, 2024. An album that we loved and described as: Deeply authentic and deeply relatable, The Rattlebacks have made sure this album is super-accessible, without compromising their powerful hard rock sound. Read our the full album review here: https://www.gbhbl.com/album-review-the-rattlebacks-sidewin...

While they may be renowned for their unique blend of gothic and death metal, Tribulation are not ones to repeat a formula and on Sub Rosa in Æternum, they conjure a new beast. Part psychological horror of Italian cinema, part gaunt British goth, and part Art Deco opulence. It was released on November 1st, 2024, via Century Media Records. The ever-evolving face of Tribulation is on clear display he...

Alternative punk and rock duo, Crashface (Charlie Hinton – Vocals/Guitar & Otto Balfour – Bass/Production have made one hell of a name for themselves on the scene. They’ve been championed, rightfully, as one most exciting, explosive bands of the modern era. Something that is evident on their latest EP, ‘Life and Death in the Wastland’. Out now, the new EP is a furious non-stop thrill ride with zer...

Following millions of streams across their catalogue of releases, many UK tours with multiple sell-out headline shows, and numerous festival appearances including Download, Takedown, Turbulence and Burn It Down, Defences, the alternative metal band, are back with their brand-new album, ‘Shadowlight’. Due for release on November 8th, 2024, via Long Branch Records. One listen to Shadowlight and it b...

The Italian melodic metal band Marble return with their most ambitious record to date, T.I.M.E. An album that revolves around female characters throughout the history of western theatre, and marking the stylistic evolution of stage performances. Starting with the ancient Greek tragedy of Euripides, passing through the British theatre of William Shakespeare, to the Russian social revolution of Anto...

Magnetar, a three-piece blackened death metal band from the UK, have released their debut album ‘There Will Be No Peace in My Valley’ via Vendetta Records. Featuring mastermind Dan Walmsley, who plays all instruments except the drums, which are hammered by Necronautical/Foetal Juice’s Rob Harris and the vocals which are delivered by Winterfylleth/Aro bassist, Nick Walllwork. When a band with the h...

Following their last album release in 2018, Stormcast are now ready to release their brand-new album entitled ‘Tremors in the Ether’ on November 29th, 2024. Known for their atmospheric and emotionally charged blend of extreme/melodic metal, Stormcast formed in 2007 and have released two previous albums (Frame of Mind – 2014 & The Ghost Eater – 2018). Around those releases they have played countles...

Isaurian, the Brazilian doomgaze/post-rock project, will release their new album, ‘The Pulsing Rush’, on October 25th. Having emerged in 2017 with the desire to make heavy, intense and emotional art via a group of musicians with more than 20 years of experience, Isaurian have made records with some of the most renowned producers in the world. Proudcers like Rhys Fülber (Paradise Lost, Fear Factory...

California death-rockers New Skeletal Faces will release their new album, ‘Until the Night’ on November 1st, 2024, via Peaceville (their label debut). The trio that makes up the garish look and sound of New Skeletal Faces formed in 2017, and have been spreading the darkness of their reanimated ‘death rock’ sound since then. 2019‘s Celestial Disease album woke the dead, but it’s this new release th...

UK metallers Defects have announced their October - November UK ‘The Bloodline’ Tour. The support will come from Profiler and Knife Bride. Tickets are available from here: https://www.wearedefects.com/ The tour will begin on 19 October in Glasgow (Garage Attic) and call through Newcastle (The Cluny), Manchester (Rebellion), Leeds (Key Club), London (O2 Islington Academy 2), Bristol (Exchange). Oxf...

VOLA, the Danish-Swedish progressive metal quartet will release their new studio album ‘Friend of a Phantom,’ on November 1st, 2024, via Mascot Records. The new album arrives three years after the release of their defining album, ‘Witness’, and sees the group continue to showcase their innovative approach to progressive metal. Aiming to captivate audiences with their blend of intense rhythmic comp...

Comprised of members from renowned hardcore bands Romeo Must Die, Dishonour the Crown, and Above All, Fates Messenger have spent the last twelve months showing the world just who they are and what they offer the metal scene. Which just so happens to be a whole lot of exciting and intense genre-bending noise. Fates Messenger aren’t about reliving past glories, and the music they have put out so far...

Finnish melancholic death and doom masters, Swallow the Sun will release their brand-new album, ‘Shining’ on October 18th, 2024, via Century Media Records. An album that explores the intrinsic challenges of being human. Which, unsurprisingly, gives Shining a certain level of intangibility as the subjects and themes are so broad. Yet, also unsurprisingly, this examination of being human comes in th...

Melodic deathcore band, Veiled have spent the past few years building up a formidable name for themselves with impressive releases and live shows that need to be experienced to believe. Now, on October 18th, they unleash their debut full-length album, ‘SE/CT’. SE/CT is the sound of a band pushing their creative abilities to the limits and still finding new reserves to draw from. A punishingly heav...

Released on September 20th, 2024, via Cold Spring Records, ‘Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us’ is the 5th album from Birmingham-based industrial/doom metal band Khost. An album that sees the band entering new nightmarish territories, alongside their signature walls of detuned guitar, corroded percussion and VHS atmospherics. With inspiration for many of the tracks coming from countless...

‘Exilium’ is the 3rd solo album from Andy Gillion (ex-song-writer/lead guitarist for Finnish melodeath band, Mors Principium Est – 2011-2020). Featuring guest appearances from Brittney Slayes of Unleash the Archers with drums performed throughout by Dave Haley of Psycroptic. ‘Exilium is a concept album, telling the story of an exiled knight. An album that we described as follows: Andy Gillion has...

London based Middle Eastern progressive doom band Lowen have released their sophomore album, ‘Do Not Go to War with The Demons of Mazandaran’ via Church Road Records. One of the many fables of the Shahnameh, the Persian book of Kings, concerns the folly of rulers who jealously extend their empires despite the warnings of their own people. It is during this tale that he is warned not to go to war w...

Award nominated independent rock and metal festival; Takedown Festival returns in 2025! The festival will take place at the Portsmouth Guildhall on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th April 2025 with tickets now on sale (early bird and VIP upgrades available now). Pick up tickets here: https://takedownfestival.com/tickets/ After announcing the postponement of the 2024 edition due to the basement developme...

Playing symphonic black metal, but amalgamated with a theatrical nuance, Erzsébet’s path began in 2020. Forging an identity that would lead to their first EP, ‘The Blasphemous Lady’ and basing it around the history and myth of Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Aiming to showcase themselves as a band that combines dark, symphonic, aggressive and horrendous elements that transport listeners to a dimension...

‘Nothing Ever Grows' is the new single from Bristol rock trio Krooked Tongue, released September 6th, 2024. It follows 2023's second studio EP 'Deathproof' which has been streamed over 320,000 times to date. In addition, August 2024 saw their biggest support tour to date, supporting Kid Brunswick on his final 'Dead Forever' tour across the UK. They've also recently shared the stage with False Head...

The Vomitour 2024 has seen everyone’s favourite party slam band, Party Cannon, hitting up city after city across the UK alongside hardcore noise mongers Street Soldier and Pintglass. A tour that has already seen sell out venues, more inflatables than should be legally allowed, utter carnage in the pits, and even mayonnaise! After all, it’s a Party Cannon show! A show that we summed up with this st...

London symphonic power metal band Grimgotts have chronicled epic battles between men and dragons on the high seas across several well-received albums already. Lions of the Sea (2017), Dragons of the Ages (2019), Tales, Sagas & Legends (2021), and now, the band’s fourth album, the concept record ‘The Time of the Wolfrider’, out on September 27th, 2024, via Elevate Records. This album chronicles an...

Born of Sabbath City dealing in hard rock from the soul. Having signed in 2019 to Heavy Psych Sounds, the home of all things doom, stoner & psych, Alunah have continued to evolve throughout their history. Multiple European festival appearances alongside UK tours with the likes of Paradise Lost, The Obsessed and Mondo Generator have recently pushed the band forward in the culmination of their 2024...

South-London based metalcore unit After Smoke Clears will release their brand-new album, ‘Intentions’. This album will be released at the end of November, right around the time they play an album release show at the 229 in London alongside Iridium, Swarmed, and Apathy. Buy tickets here: https://dice.fm/event/ryyvov-after-smoke-clears-23rd-nov-229-london-tickets?pid=f5e6ac52 The first taste of this...

Hailing from Ukraine, Silvern are a black metal band who released their debut full-length album ‘Stardust Sermons’ via Vendetta Records on September 6th, 2024. It’s been a challenging journey to release, with multiple postponements due to the full-scale aggression from Russia, but the album has finally seen the light of day. Telling a conceptual story that surrounds a faceless character as their p...