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Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 2025: Interview With Hollowed...
Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 20251. Please introduce yourself for anyone who may not know you. Tell us a little bit more about you as a band.We are a 4 piece metalcore band based in...
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Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 2025: Interview With Thawn...
Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 20251. Please introduce yourself for anyone who may not know you. Tell us a little bit more about you as a band.We’re Thawn, a Bridgend based band looking to...
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Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 2025: Interview With Bleed The...
Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 20251. Please introduce yourself for anyone who may not know you. Tell us a little bit more about you as a band.We're Bleed the Fifth - a metalcore band...
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Reviews: Tiberius (Matt Bladen)
Tiberius - Singing For Company (Self Released)When I first saw Tiberius I was hooked, the Scottish band were thrilling with a boisterous stage show and a musical range that pours power metal into...
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Review: Steven Wilson (Matt Bladen)
Steven Wilson - The Overview (Fiction Records)A new Steven Wilson album! Ring the bells! Sound the claxon! Fire up the synthesizers! It's no secret I love this musical maven, I've pretty loved...
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Review: Cradle Of FIlth (Liam Williams)
Cradle Of Filth – The Screaming Of The Valkyries (Napalm Records)The legendary Cradle Of Filth are back on top form with their brand new 14th album The Screaming Of The Valkyries and you can bet I got...
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Afterlove - Copenhagen Closure (Prime Collective) [SJ]Mirza (Siamese vocalist) is testing new waters with their solo project Afterlove with Rain City Drive’s Zack Baker and If Not For Me Zac Allen,...
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A View From The Back Of The Room: Jizzy Pearl's Love/Hate (Debby Myatt & Tony...
Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate, New Generation Superstars & Voodoo Sioux, KK’s Steel Mill Wolverhampton, 08.03.25At the height of the Glam/Sleaze domination of rock, LA rockers Love/Hate released their...
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A View From The Back Of The Room: The Darkness (Liam Williams)
The Darkness & Ash, Swansea Arena, Swansea, 09.03.25What do you get when you have a tasty starter of Northern Irish indie rock, followed by a spectacular main course performance filled with some...
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A View From The Back Of The Room: Campaign For Musical Destruction Tour...
Campaign For Musical Destruction Tour: Napalm Death, Crowbar, Full Of Hell & Brat, O2 Academy Birmingham, 09.03.25Opening the night was Brat (6), a hardcore band led by a female vocalist. They took...
View ArticleReviews: Calyces, Euphrosyne, Wildfire, Destiny Calls (Matt Bladen)
Calyces – Fleshy Waves Of Probability (Self Released)Calyces was born when Manthos Stergiou formed another band after the collapse of Tardive Dyskinesia, they released their debut Impulse To Soar in...
View ArticleReviews: Cryptosis, Dawn Of Ouroboros, Avulsed, Hypermass (Matt Bladen)
Cryptosis - Celestial Death (Century Media)Dutch tech death now from Cryptosis who come back with their second album Celestial Death. The PR states this is highly evolved death metal and it’s hard to...
View ArticleReviews: Vitskär Süden, Diatheke, Sloth, Wythersake (Rich Piva & Mark Young)
Vitskär Süden - Vitskär Süden Reissue (Ripple Music) [Rich Piva] Vitskär Süden may be known for singing about D&D which is fun and all, especially if you were into it (I was not), but to paint the...
View ArticleReviews: Ricky Warwick, Edge Of Paradise, NITE, Streetlight (Matt Bladen)
Ricky Warwick – Blood Ties (Earache)You’d think Ricky Warwick had enough going on with the return of The Almighty, the continued touring and recording with Black Star Riders and also occasionally...
View ArticleReviews: O.R.k, Crimson Glory, Sanhedrin, Gentle Beast (Matt Bladen & Rich Piva)
O.R.k - Firehose Of Falsehoods (Kscope) [Matt Bladen]O.R.k shift their soundscapes again on this fifth album, there is lots of links to King Crimson, final track Dive In, a bonus track on the CD...
View ArticleReviews: Imperial Triumphant, Pop Evil, Gotthard, Anneke Van Giersbergen...
Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar (Century Media Records) If there's a new Imperial Triumphant album you'll never know what to expect, punishing industrial soundscapes as punishing extreme metal is played...
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A View From The Back Of The Room: Phil Campbell And The B*stard Sons (Debby...
Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons, Fury & Liberty Lies, KK’s Steel Mill, 22.03.25My biggest regret is never getting to see Motöhead live despite them being one of my all time favourite bands, but...
View ArticleReviews: The Darkness, Envy Of None, Sammale, Torn From Oblivion (Matt Bladen...
The Darkness - Dreams On Toast (Cooking Vinyl) [Matt Bladen]The Darkness are at their best when they're eclectic, their albums such as Hot Cakes and Pinewood Smile for me are the ones that really stand...
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Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 2025: Interview With Kill By Mouth...
Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 20251. Please introduce yourself for anyone who may not know you. Tell us a little bit more about you as a band.We are Kill By Mouth from Swansea. Cassar -...
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Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 2025: Interview With Empire Of...
Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 20251. Please introduce yourself for anyone who may not know you. Tell us a little bit more about you as a band.We are Empire of dust, 5 piece sludge/doom...
View ArticleReviews: URSA, Gates To Hell, Destruction, Black And Damned (Matt Bladen &...
URSA - Call Of The Infinite (Self Released) [Matt Bladen]Shame. Shame on me for almost missing this album from March's review pile. Call Of The Infinite could not be more up my street if they bought...
View ArticleReviews: SOM, Desert'Smoke, Jesse Stilettö, Sykofant (Rich Piva)
SOM - Let The Light In (Pelagic Records)SOM has been deemed “Doom Pop” and why not, but to me, this band is heavy shoegaze all the way, and boy am I here for it on their third record, Let The Light In....
View ArticleReviews: Black Spiders, Vulvarine, Kazea, Ellis Mano Band (Duncan Everson &...
Black Spiders – Cvrses (Dark Riders/Cargo) [Duncan Everson]Black Spiders have been around since 2008 gradually building a fanbase but not yet getting to the next size up in venues. Could Cvrses be the...
View ArticleReviews: Telepathy, Sometime In February, Wombbath, Mindwars (Matt Bladen &...
Telepathy - Transmissions (Pelagic Records) [Matt Bladen]Welcome to the hypnotic, techtronic world of Telepathy and their stunning fourth album Transmissions. The Polish/English foursome based in...
View ArticleReviews: Rotting Christ, Lucifer's Child, No Hand Path, Anglachel (Matt Bladen)
Rotting Christ - 35 Years Of Evil Existence: Live In Lycabettus (Season Of Mist)35 Years Of Evil Existence is a celebration of Greece's most recognised extreme metal act. One of three bands who...
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