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Without beating around the bush, current world events haven’t been easy on the mental state of the hive mind. Despondency has been...

Terminal cowardice. We’ve all encountered people worthy of the diagnosis. Those so devoid of courage, they become a caricature. An ornate...

Desire can do strange things to us. In some cases, it renders us blind to people’s flaws, while making fools of others. We ignore red...

In any governmental regime or monarchy, the threat of tyranny is never far behind, looming in the background like that one uncle who...

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ contains the line “I have to be cruel to be kind”. The self-contradiction there is known as a paradox. The biggest...

Placed in the hands of others, our mentality is a fragile thing. When our trust in someone is broken, disappointment dons a cape of anger...

Everyone deals with their demons in different ways. Some choose to confront them head on, others bludgeon them with drugs or alcohol,...

It’s not fair is it? Bad things happen to good people and the bad people will seldom suffer their deserved consequences, often times...

Life is a battlefield of emotional landmines that threaten to leave permanent scars and lacerations upon our souls, and we struggle...

UK technical death metal band Monasteries are here with their new EP entitled Silence, an ironic title considering just how loud these...

Dystopian guitars crescendo into an unsettling wave, threatening to break the shoreline before you can make it to the safety of the...

How many music videos that are set amongst cows can you think of? Norwegian Alt Pop/Rock duo Ask Carol recently released their third...

Trump’s America has wrecked desecration across the lives of migrants, the LGBTQ+ community, those from disadvantageous backgrounds, and...

You reap what you sow so the saying goes. People make conscious karmic decisions almost constantly. To compare life to Demon’s Souls, you...

Uncertainty does strange things to a person. It cripples us with fear, insecurities, and doubt. Uncertainty also leaves us isolated,...

In a society that’s all too ready to tear people down rather than build them up, solidarity among us is long overdue. Why can’t people...

One certainty in life is death is ever present. Time is essentially ticking away. How a person chooses to deal with that mortality is...

Mental illness is insidious. There’s no two ways about it. Whatever affliction falls under that umbrella has the ability to change...

Whether we want to admit it or not, no man is an island. As humans, we crave connections. Not passing acquaintances or temporary friends...

Is a good time guaranteed with alcohol consumption? It can be all too easy to tip the scale into a bad time. Alcohol poisoning, acts of...

Now I know for a fact that all of you have seen Loony Tunes, and some of you may even remember Wacky Races, so picture this: Dick...

“There are no supreme saviours/ Neither God, nor Caesar, nor tribune/ Producers save ourselves” chants the French anthem...

Mistakes are part of life. They are lessons in how to conduct ourselves… or how we shouldn’t. No person is exempt from that particular...

Greek philosopher Democritus once wrote “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul”. It’s this...

There is nothing more resilient than the human spirit. It takes a different kind of strength to pull yourself out of a hole and set...

Everyone falls victim to the odd existential crisis. The fear of not knowing your life’s purpose or even realising how insignificant...

The last few moments of a relationship are brutal. There’s no two ways about it. When all the cards are left face up on the table, a...

Do you appreciate haunting, sitting in the car, pondering over lost lovers of the past and staring out of the window in a very heavy...

Clint Listing, the all-round talent behind artist name The Slumbering, presents us with a new video for the track entitled 'Daddy Doesn’t...

Calling time on a relationship is never easy, regardless of who it’s with. Arguably, the hardest relationship to end is with a version of...

Feeling like an outcast can be a strange thing; it can cause people to feel isolated, aggressive, and volatile among other things. Most...

A sublime summer breeze guides you through the tickling blades of dew sprinkled grass, takes you by the hand and leads you to walk...

For as long as the Earth has inhabited life, there has been violence. Be it violence between animals or between humans, enemies or...

Gone seem to be the days of true dangerous rock n’ roll; the type of music with guitar licks that made your skin crawl and come alive...

As humanity’s evolved, the echelon mentality has spiralled out of control. In a time of rising inequality and well documented...

Every relationship will eventually come up against it. The choice then is whether to fight for what you love or let it go. Wanting to...

Hate is a powerful thing. If the root is left unaddressed, it often breeds vicious behaviour. Channelling spite into something more...

Behind the Horror, a death / thrash metal duo formed by brothers Gabriel (guitar) and Lucas (drums) Alves, have released a video for...

Every generation comes with hardships, each different from the last. Whatever your opinion on millennials and generations thereafter, it...

Whichever way you look at it, all journalism has a spin on it. Positive. Negative. Whatever is conducive to the publication or broadcast....

Chronic apathy appears to be widespread. When we look back at this snapshot of our lives, we’ll be reminded how small life became and the...

‘Change isn’t always simple’, Alabama metal group House Of Curses proclaim in delectably dense new single ‘Bounce House’. Formed in 2015,...

Face down in the dirt, dragged heavily across the merciless scarlet stained gravel to an unknown location with the only sound being the...

AntiMozdeBeast, a solo artist dabbling in experimental genres such as harsh industrial noise and electronic metal, is back with a new EP...

Deception runs rampant within the realms of a cult. Preying upon the vulnerable in their time of need, manipulating instead of mediating,...

It’s so easy to get swept up in emotions of a moment which causes you a lot of stress. While it consumes you now, will all this really...

Metal as we know it found its roots in the fantastical; fully exploring the ability to build worlds of the ‘Holy Diver’, ‘Angel of...

With its bright lights, gambling opportunities, and various dens of iniquity, there is good reason Las Vegas is also known as Sin City....

It would be safe to say the tension within the masses is palpable. The cause of that unrest? The government. As the UK’s higher ups come...

War. What is it good for? Edwin Starr posed the age old question back in 1970 in protest to the Vietnam War. Fast forward to 2021 where...