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Starset - Horizons (Fearless Records) [Matt Bladen]Dustin Bates, Starset frontman, songwriter and general creative mastermind, returns with his 'cinematic rock' band's fourth album. If you have...
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Elimination – Echoes Of The Abyss (Self Released) [Paul Hutchings]Sidestepping the clouds thrown up by the race to the top flight of the UK thrash league, Suffolk’s Elimination have calmly gone about...
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Joe Bonamassa – Time Clocks (Provogue/J&R Adventures)The hardest working man in music returns with another album, his 16th offering sees him yet again adapt like the musical chameleon he is....
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The Lucid Furs - Damn! That Was Easy (Argonauta Records)Another day, another retro loving blues rock band. The Lucid Furs have a bit of an advantage being from one of the cities that spearheaded that...
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Bastarður – Satan’s Loss Of Son (Season Of Mist)Satan’s Loss Of Son is just over 28 minutes of raging crust punk-meets-black metal. Imagine Darkthrone playing Entombed while throwing down with Lemmy in...
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Thulcandra - A Dying Wish (Napalm Records) [Matt Bladen]A Dying Wish is the fourth album from black/death metal act Thulcandra, it’s their first release in six years, bandleader Steffen Kummerer yet...
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Sentinels – Collapse By Design (Sharptone Records) [Zak Skane]The New Jersey progressive metal bruisers have released their debut album Collapse By Design via Sharptone Records. As soon as the ere...
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MØL - Diorama (Nuclear Blast) Danish Blackgaze masters MØL felt that Jord, their debut full length was what they had been striving for with their previous EP's. With that nadir reached, and their sound...
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Bullet For My Valentine – Bullet For My Valentine (Spinefarm Records) Seven albums into their career and Welsh metal act Bullet For My Valentine, have released music that has gone from metalcore and...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Ward XVI (Live Review By Simon Black)
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Manimal - Armageddon (AFM Records) [Matt Bladen]Samuel Nyman and company return with their fourth full length record Armageddon. So is it a world ending release? Well world ending may be a little bit...
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Bullet For My Valentine, Tesseract & Bleed From Within, Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, 07/11/2021The first Motorpoint Arena gig of 2021 was headlined by the Welsh metal stalwarts with a decent line up...
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Northtale - Eternal Flame (Nuclear Blast) [Simon Black]Does the world really need another Power Metal Super Group project? That’s a difficult question to answer when you are based in the UK, as it’s a...
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