2011 releases

Any album that introduces itself in the press release as an ’11 song beer fuelled festival of mayhem’ is always going to pique the interest of the denizens of MaF HQ, a

You’re a heavy metal fan right? Yet, and this is no fault of yours, there’s a chance you won’t have heard of Jack Starr.

Vile have been one of those bands in my opinion that sit in the third tier of modern American death metal.

Aborted's seventh album, Global Flatline has been two years in the making and it's been well worth the wait.

The forthcoming album fuses together two very different approaches to music - Mikee Goodman's unique vocal tones and dark, yet colourful lyrics, and Adrian Smith's

I came across this band some weeks ago when I had seen the art and then the extended artwork of Dwellings' cover.

I read somewhere on this very site that doom metal bands are the keepers of the true metal flame these days, and whilst I’d agree with MaF writers like Doomed Discipl

Revilement's debut album Pillars of Balance should carry a warning; a warning that listening to it may cause you to soil your trousers.

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When ice maiden Tarja Turunen left Finnish operatic dreamweavers Nightwish, many mourned the band’s imminent demise; Who could possibly replace such a distin