Helsinki, Finland, where death thrash quartet Soul Incursion hail from, gets fewer than eight hours of daylight this time of year, so you can see how releasing the band’s debut EP, Eternal Darkness, might be appropriate now. The five-tracker is definitely not gonna bring any sunshine… Read More »Full EP Stream: Soul Incursion – ‘Eternal Darkness’
If you’ve attended Wacken — and know that “Wacken” doesn’t require descriptive adjuncts like “world’s biggest heavy metal festival” — chances are you’ve heard or stumbled upon the Wacken Battle. Here, bands that were victorious in their respective countries’ battle of the bands “compete” against… Read More »Quebec’s Strigampire Dominate Canada’s Wacken Battle. Next Stop the World with All to Dominate
The end of the year countdowns are finally here! As always, we’ll kick off with the big one: The Bias List’s top 50 songs of the year! Each day this week, I’ll be counting down ten of the year’s best, until number one is revealed… Read More »The Top 50 K-Pop Songs of 2023 (Day Four: 20-11)
photograph by Rick Barnwell With the exception of The Smiths, when rock bands break up–even when they do a final tour–it’s rarely forever. From My Chemical Romance to Blur, we’ve seen multiple reunion tours in recent years. But when Baltimore, Maryland’s Have Mercy went on… Read More »Artist Interview: Have Mercy
There is often an order to these things, as you might have noticed – first we introduce you to the band as snappily as we can, then we focus on the thing that we’re sharing today, be it an album stream or a new video,… Read More »Video Premiere: Quits – “Bucolica”