Dan McHugh, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

Alter Bridge: Simple Pleasures

Over two decades ago, from the ashes of the multi-platinum selling CREED, rose the phoenix known as ALTER BRIDGE. A

Leeds based astrodeath proprietors CRYPTIC SHIFT came bursting onto the scene with 2020’s full length debut Visitations From Enceladus. An

Whilst TEXTURES have not achieved a world-renowned status, they were instrumental in flying the flag for progressive metal in the

2021’s Bloodmoon: I, the collaborative effort alongside gothic songstress CHELSEA WOLFE was considered a triumph on all accounts by CONVERGE‘s

German genre-splicers AVRALIZE made a lasting impression with their full length debut album Freaks in 2024. Whilst embedded in the metalcore

As the old saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder. After 13 painstaking years since the release of Asymmetry,

British metalcore outfit SHIELDS have had to encounter a level of hardship and agony which no band should ever have

Californian trailblazers SPITE have been putting the deathcore division on notice during their recent rapid ascent, injecting their own chaotic

THE HIRSCH EFFEKT may not have achieved the same acclaim as some of their genre counterparts, but they have continued

The metal world entered a collective state of mourning when Dutch progressive metal heroes TEXTURES announced they would be disbanding