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With Australian heavy record label, UNFD, turning ten this year, we look back at some of the highs & lows of their release history.

Spotlight Report Nicolas Cage Fighter (what a brilliant name). The band’s 5-track, “heavy as hell” EP Cast You Out is available as of February 5! Having shared the stage with bands such as Attila, Thy Art is Murder, and In Hearts Wake to name but a few, these guys are no strangers to thrashing it out. And it is clear from their new record, that they love it as heavy as it gets! Talking about the record, vocalist Nick Moriarty said “I had a clear narrative I wanted to exp...

Top 10 Countries with the Best Metal Bands The Top Ten Finland (Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Children of Bodom, Apocalyptica, Korpiklaani) Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a sovereign state in Europe. It has a capital of Helsinki and got independence from the Soviet Union after WWI. Finland has an outstanding output of quality Metal bands. I have not found one Finnish Metal band that was terrible, all of them were good. If you want to find more bands there is no bette...

Mikaela: ‘My worst habit is being a perfectionist all the time: it’s either a blessing or a curse’  Metal vocalist Mikaela tells all in our Q&A 21 January 2021, 7:01am by Laura Calleja The metal vocalist, composer, lyric writer and producer graduated summa cum laude from Berklee College of Music with a BA in Music Production and earlier on studied vocal performance at the same institution. Mikaela released several singles and EP ‘Hear Me Out’, winning awards Best New Artist in 2010...

The Van Buren concert venue. (John Spevacek/DD) Several bands that come to Phoenix and its surrounding cities to perform do not get to play on big stages. They often play at clubs in the middle of strip malls where the nearest landmark is a fast-food restaurant. But that is not the case if they are playing The Van Buren– or at least it wasn’t the case. The Van Buren music venue has been closed since March, when the Coronavirus pandemic forced the closure of the entertainment industry in the...