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Queens Of The Stone Age, Cardiff Castle, 23.06.23Ahead of their already widely celebrated set at Glastonbury, and following the release of new album, In Times New Roman, which carries over the retro...
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Throw The Fight - Strangeworld (Long Branch Records) [GC]Post hardcore? What does that even mean? It’s a genre that confuses me as I never know what I am going to get from a band when I listen to them...
View ArticleReviews: Night Legion, Aasar, Webb, Subterranean Disposition (Reviews By Matt...
Night Legion - Fight Or Fall (Massacre Records)If any metal releases after 1989 fill you with dread then I urge you to pick up the new album from Aussie band Night Legion. Fight Or Fall is their second...
View ArticleReviews: Motörhead, Luke Morley, Burner, Monoatomic God (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Motörhead – Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, 2007 (BMG)Never has there been a more loved band than Motörhead, the biggest, the baddest, the loudest, they are the epitome of rock n roll. So what the...
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Static Abyss - Aborted from Reality (Peaceville Records) [Mark Young]Now this is how we start the week. The second album from industry veterans Greg Wilkinson and Chris Reifert who you will know as...
View ArticleReviews: Wizard Tattoo, Sidus, Membrance, In The Kingdom Of Nightmares...
Wizard Tattoo - Fables Of The Damned (Self Released) [Rich Piva]Well, this is fun, part 2! I have become the Musipedia Of Metal Wizard Tattoo reviewer of choice and I am here for it, given I provided...
View ArticleReviews: Winterage, Withering Scorn, Steel Bars, Plainride (Reviews By Matt...
Winterage – Nekyia (Scarlet Records) If you thought the last Blind Guardian album wasn’t folky enough, or epic enough, Avantasia had lost their power metal roots or that Rhapsody Of Fire weren’t as...
View ArticleReviews: The Raven Age, Bloodbound, Struck Down, Metide (Reviews By Matt...
The Raven Age – Blood Omen (Music For Nations/Sony Music) [Matt Bladen]Four years since their last album, and their first with new guitarists Tommy Gentry, British metal band The Raven Age return with...
View ArticleReviews: Yawning Balch, The Far Outs, Mystical PH, All For Metal (Reviews By...
Yawning Balch - Volume One (Heavy Psych Sounds) So where do I sign up for one of my two favorite desert/stoner rock instrumental bands partnering with the legendary guitarist from one of the innovators...
View ArticleBloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 2023 (Overview By Matt Bladen)
Bloodstock Metal To The Masses South Wales 2023Always a momentous occasion for the South Wales metal scene, 2023 saw the Bloodstock Metal To The Masses initiative get bigger and better than ever....
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The Dust Coda – Loco Paradise (Earache Records)Three albums deep and The Dust Coda are a force to be rockend with (geddit?). Their previous two albums have done a lot to establish them as ones to watch...
View ArticleReviews: Protean Shield, Embargo, AmongRuins, Obscurus Rex (Reviews By Matt...
Protean Shield - Protean Shield (No Remorse Records) Greece has quite a longstanding history with epic heavy metal they absolutely love this style over there, so much so they have their own festival...
View ArticleReviews: Widows Peak, The Hate Project, Following The Signs, Wyld Timez...
Widows Peak - Claustrophobe (Self Released) [GC]This review is another one of those genres that worry me slightly Widows Peak are described as Technical Progressive Death Metal which fills me with...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Froglord, Lung & Thrakian (Live Review By...
Froglord, Lung & Thrakian, Fuel Rock Club, 06.07.23After almost turning Bristol M2TM 2023 into their own personal swamp, amphibian stoner metal band Froglord looked to expand their worship of frogs...
View ArticleReviews: Voidmilker, A Life Divided, Gutslit, Wizard Master (Reviews By Paul...
Voidmilker - Labyrinthical (Tragedy Productions) [Paul Scoble]Voidmilker is a new project from Gabriel Hugo, who is based in Santiago, Chile. Gabriel is best known for his post black metal project...
View ArticleReviews: Nita Strauss, Edenfall, Suspiriorum, Froglord (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Nita Strauss - Call Of The Void (Sumerian Records)Since the release of her previous solo album Controlled Chaos in 2018. 'Hurricane' Nita Strauss has left Alice Cooper's band, joined Demi Lovato's rock...
View ArticleReviews: Cavalera, Deitus, Blackbraid, Auralayer (Reviews By Mark Young, Paul...
Cavalera - Bestial Devastation & Morbid Visions (Nuclear Blast) [Matt Bladen]Returning to their roots (ahem) the Cavalera brothers come together to revisit and re-record their first EP and album...
View ArticleReviews: Voyager, Calligram, Voice Of Baceprot, Tailgunner (Reviews By Matt...
Voyager - Fearless In Love (Season Of Mist) [Matt Bladen]Before there was Eurovision, there was a band from Australia who started out playing power metal, however as they began to pick up steam and...
View ArticleReviews: Callous Hands, Weite, Winterstorm, Tortured (Reviews By Tony Gaskin,...
Callous Hands - Trapped In Animated Flesh (Self Released) [Tony Gaskin]Callous Hands, the Midlands based metal band known for their relentless aggression and uncompromising sound, has unleashed their...
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