Reviews: Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, The Fierce & The Dead, Kai Hansen, Dead...
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Shapes Of Midnight (Killer Candy Records)Cambridge occult rockers Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats emerge from their imaginary Italian thriller soundtrack with a new...
View ArticleReviews: Anthrax, Villagers Of Ioannina City, Playgrounded, Game Over (Mark...
Anthrax - Cursum Perficio (Nuclear Blast/Megaforce) [Mark Young]Just so you know in the interests of objectivity that Anthrax have remained in my top 5 bands, well since 1987. They sit with The...
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A View From The Back Of The Room: Dance Gavin Dance (Alex Tobias)
Dance Gavin Dance, As December Falls & Dwellings, The Prospect Building, Bristol, UK 09.09.26Tonight I’m off to Bristol, not only to get my first taste of The Prospect Building, but to see Dance...
View ArticleReviews: Green Carnation, 10,000 Years, Castle, 7Zuma7 (Rich Piva)
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex (Season Of Mist)A three part concept album trilogy is not something easy to pull off, or sometimes even to listen to. It can be a lot....
View ArticleReviews: Holding Absence, Steve Cropper, Kulk, Cor De Lux (Matt Bladen & Spike)
Holding Absence - Modern Life Is Lonely (Sumerian Records) [Matt Bladen]It's been a decade since Holding Absence first started to emerge out of the South Wales music scene, some of us having seen the...
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A View From The Back Of The Room: Holy Holy (Mike Chapman)
Holy Holy - A Celebration Of Bowie, O2 Academy, Bristol, 11.09.26Tonight was certainly a night of celebration, as the masses gathered to hear some of the finest songs from one of the finest artists,...
View ArticleReviews: Ricky Warwick, Tygers Of Pan Tang, KingCrown, Aethoria (Matt Bladen)
Ricky Warwick - Fire & Vengeance (Earache) You may think that Ricky Warwick has enough on his plate fronting Black Star Riders and the reactivated The Almighty, but he's still got time to write,...
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A View From The Back Of The Room: Kulk (Spike)
KULK, IAN & Hellga – The Holloway, Norwich, 04.09.26There’s something genuinely special brewing in Norwich right now. If you spend enough time following underground music, you learn to cherish the...
View ArticleReviews: Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Winter At Sea, Wyrdstæf, Til The End (Spike...
Raphael Weinroth-Browne – Empyrean (Self-Released) [Spike]If you had told me a few years ago that the cello would become one of my favourite instruments in heavy music, I’d probably have laughed you...
View ArticleReview: Mother Of Millions, Paranoid Reverb, Edouarth, The Mute (Matt Bladen)
Mother Of Millions - T (ViciSolum Productions)Over the years we've charted the continuing musical evolution of Greek prog band Mother Of Millions.From their modern prog metal/Djent beginnings, like so...
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A View From The Back Of The Room: Pantheïst & Monolithe (Matt Bladen)
Pantheïst & Monolithe, Fuel Rock Club, 09.09.26First of all before I start this review, this was another South Wales gig where the crowd was disappointing, both of these bands deserve much bigger...
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A View From The Back Of The Room: Downcast (Rowan Rumble)
Downcast, CF98, Stay Safe, Say It Anyway & We Are Zero, Fuel Rock Club, 27.09.26Wilding Promotions were at it again bringing a while host of pop punk/emo to Fuel Rock Club and with five bands on...
View ArticleReviews: Green Lung, The Meffs, Neolith, Cartilage (RIch Piva, Spike, Mateusz...
Green Lung - Necropolitan (Nuclear Blast) [Rich Piva]The first three Green Lung records were solid 9-10s for this reviewer. I love this band. This kind of love, however, creates an almost impossible...
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A View From The Back Of The Room: Soulfly & Nailbomb (Alex Tobias)
Soulfly, Nailbomb & Dosed, O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK, 05.09.26I am Midlands-bound this evening for the UK tour of Soulfly, with support from Nailbomb and Dosed. Let's get inside and check out...
View ArticleReviews: Airbourne, Bleeker, Mad Max, Stormbringer (Matt Bladen)
Airbourne - Airbourne (Spinefarm Records)A self titled album, especially one that's a band's sixth record usually indicates a change of membership or a reinvention, so I was interested to see that...
View ArticleReviews: Kamelot, Exumer, Audrey Horne, Static Abyss (Matt Bladen)
Kamelot - Dark Asylum (Napalm Records)Kamelot are a band not aversed to a concept record, they released a fair few in their time, the storytelling and thematic aspects suiting the dramatic and...
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A View From The Trinity Centre: Bristol Extreme Fest (Matt Bladen)
Bristol Extreme Festival, Trinity Centre, Bristol, 29.08.26The return of Bristol Extreme Fest was long awaited around these parts ever since the team behind Blastonbree and South West Heavy Fest...
View ArticleReviews: Mastodon, Flotsam & Jetsam, Those Made Broken, Devil Master (Mark...
Mastodon - Marrow Deep (Loma Vista) [Mark Young] It's Mastodon with their first post Brent LP. So – lets get something out of the way now; I’ve seen comments like No Brent = No Mastodon. This is fine,...
View ArticleReviews: Nephila, Fen, Miscreance, Korpse (Rick Eaglestone, Matt Bladen, Mark...
Nephila - Huldra (Majestic Mountain Records) [Rick Eaglestone]Nephila are a band that treats the 1970s not as a museum piece but as a doorway.Formed in Arvika, deep in the Värmland forests, back in...
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A View From The Field: Stonedead Festival (Misfit Jax)
Stonedead Festival, Newark Showgrounds, 29.08.26lThe cliche rainy festival weather finally caught up to Newark Showgrounds for Stonedead Festival, but that didn't dampen the spirits of the festival...
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