M2TM South Wales 2024: Cardiff Heat #1 Interview With Built To Destroy By...
Interview with Built To Destroy – Heat 1, M2TM, Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff 8th March 2024 We start our coverage of this year’s road to Bloodstock 204 by asking Built To Destroy to answer a few questions...
View ArticleReviews: Blind Channel, Volcandra, Waste A Saint, Steel Rath (Reviews By Zak...
Blind Channel - Exit Emotions (Century Media Records) [Zak Skane]From the opening track, the band do not mess about, we get hit in face with fuzzy djenty douncy riffs, foot stomping drum beats, but...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Fozzy (Live Review By Debby Myatt)
Fozzy, The Hot Damn! & Pistols At Dawn, KK’s Steel Mill 23.02.24Technically, it’s 25 years since the first incarnation of Fozzy was born, pretty much a covers band until their third album All That...
View ArticleM2TM South Wales 2024: Cardiff Heat #1 Interview With Beyond Sorrow By Paul...
Interview with Beyond Sorrow - Heat 1, M2TM, Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff 8th March 2024Band two under the spotlight for Heat 1 is Beyond Sorrow. Guitarist Sam Sweeting provides the answers.1. Let’s start...
View ArticleReviews: Sonata Arctica, Haunt, David Reece, Wade Black's Astronomica...
Sonata Arctica – Clear Cold Beyond (Atomic Fire Records)In the pantheon of power metal, Finnish band Sonata Arctica stand alongside Stratovarius as one of the country’s finest. While the latter brought...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Rick Wakeman (Live Review By Matt Bladen)
Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble, Bristol Beacon 28.02.24Traffic chaos awaited my journey to and from Bristol as the penultimate day of February obviously caused mass hysteria on the roads....
View ArticleM2TM South Wales 2024: Cardiff Heat #1 Interview With Excursia By Paul Hutchings
Interview with Excursia – Heat 1, M2TM, Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff 8th March 20241. Let’s start with introductions. Who is who and what does each person do in the band?Excursia is comprised of Adam Rapado...
View ArticleReviews: Goat Major, Valhalla Awaits, Fathomless Ritual, Arms And Sleepers...
Goat Major - Ritual (Ripple Music) [Matt Bladen]Welsh riff merchants rapidly follow up their digital only Evil Eye EP from last year with their debut full length on the always brilliant Ripple Music....
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Mr Big: The Big Finish Tour Preview
Mr Big “The Big Finish Tour” Preview Coming to UK shores this spring is the final tour of American hard rock band Mr Big. Called The Big Finish Tour it’s their way of saying goodbye to the fans that...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Hawxx (Live Review By Matt Bladen)
Hawxx, Sydney Fate, Rockabye Reaper & Odessa, Fuel Rock Club 01.03.24Another Friday night, another set of sound gremlins in Fuel Rock Club. Arriving at the venue, were informed that the doors had...
View ArticleM2TM South Wales 2024: Swansea Heat #1 Interview With Inerrant By Paul Hutchings
Interview with Inerrant - Heat 1, M2TM, The Bunkhouse, Swansea 9th March 2024 1. Who is who and what does each person do in the band? We’re a 6 piece when we play live but occasionally mix up the...
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Review: Judas Priest (Review By Matt Bladen)
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (Epic Records)19 albums, worldwide recognition, true originators and survivors of every trend there has been. Judas Priest have done it all! The Birmingham formed heavy...
View ArticleReviews Exhorder, Early Moods, Midnight, Floya (Reviews By Mark Young, Rich...
Exhorder - Defectum Omnium (Nuclear Blast Records) [Mark Young]From Doom to Thrash, this is the sort of week I love. Exhorder release their 4th full-length album, nearly 5 years after Mourn The...
View ArticleM2TM South Wales 2024: Swansea Heat #1 Interview With BackIVBlood By Paul...
Interview with BackIVBlood - Heat 1, M2TM, The Bunkhouse, Swansea 9th March 2024 Band two under the spotlight for Heat 1 in Swansea is BackIVBlood.1. Let’s start with introductions. Who is who and what...
View ArticleReviews: Neptune Power Federation, Slimelord, Turbulence, Vicinity (Reviews...
Neptune Power Federation - Goodnight My Children (Cruz Del Sur Music) [Rich Piva]It is going to be hard for me to go into this review for the new Neptune Power Federation album, Goodnight My Children,...
View ArticleReviews: Alterium, Clarion Void, Hijss, The Wind Covenant (Reviews By Matt...
Alterium – Of War And Flames (AFM Records) [Matt Bladen]Alterium are a new symphonic/power metal band formed from the break up of Kalida. Singer Nicoletta Rosellini formed the new band alongside former...
View ArticleReviews: The End Machine, Kollapse, No Worth Of Man, Mutilated By Zombies...
The End Machine - The Quantum Phase (Frontiers Music Srl) [Rich Piva]Frontiers Records knows their audience, because releasing the third album from The End Machine fits perfectly into their agenda,...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: ZZ Top (Live Review By Rich Piva)
ZZ Top & The Annie Dukes, King Center, Melbourne, FL 06.03.24Seeing ZZ Top (10) has always been elusive, as even back in high school when they came though Long Island playing Nassau Coliseum with a...
View ArticleM2TM South Wales 2024: Cardiff Heat #2 Interview With Thrakian By Paul Hutchings
Interview With Thrakian – Heat 2 M2TM, Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff 15th March 2024It’s heat 2 in Cardiff, and we find Thrakian ready with their answers to our challenging questions!1. Let’s start with...
View ArticleReviews: Skeletal Remains, Midas Fall, Kill The Lights, Full Earth (Reviews...
Skeletal Remains - Fragments Of The Ageless (Century Media Records) [Charlie Rogers]Brutal alternative to The California Raisins, Skeletal Remains have been a household name in modern death metal for...
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