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Bloodstock Open Air 2024 Preview By Matt Bladen
Bloodstock Open Air 2024 PreviewBloodstock Festival is rightly the biggest metal fest in the UK. While Download appeals to the mainstream and the masses, BOA has always tried to incorporate the middle...
View ArticleReviews: Category 7, Sacri Monti, Iress, Terra Black (Reviews By Mark Young,...
Category 7 - Category 7 (Metal Blade Records) [Mark Young]There is something quite right about Category 7 having its debut released through Metal Blade Records. It’s an album that is so tightly packed...
View ArticleReviews: Duskwalker, Pohl, Summoning The Lich, Sirius (Reviews By Mark Young,...
Duskwalker - Underground Forever (Black Lion Records) [Mark Young]With savage intent, Duskwalker drop their third full length of thrash/death metal which motors along at a fair old lick. Hailing from...
View ArticleReviews: Laceration, Wraithfyre, DD Verni, Fading Echoes (Reviews By Mark...
Laceration - I Erode (20 Buck Spin) [Mark Young]The team at 20 Buck Spin know a thing or two about having a finger on the pulse of all things rotten (in a good way, obviously) and.so bring you the...
View ArticleReviews: Powerwolf, Then Comes The Night, Asenblut, Blacklist (Reviews By...
Powerwolf - Wake Up The Wicked (Napalm Records) [Matt Bladen]Everyone's favourite Lycan Lovers, Powerwolf return with their new album Wake Up The Wicked, following up their 2021 record Call Of The Wild...
View ArticleReviews: Monument Of Misanthropy, Barbarian Hermit, Vanitas, Mister Misery...
Monument of Misanthropy - Vile Postmortem Irrumatio (Transcending Obscurity Records) [Mark Young]I think this is a first for me. A death metal concept album that is based on real-life events,...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Tyla & Dog’s D’Amour (Live Review By Tony...
Tyla's Dogs D’Amour And More: An Evening Of Raucous Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Billesley Rock Club, Birmingham, Friday 26.07.24 By Tony GaskinDeb was going to write this review originally, but I thought I’d...
View ArticleReviews: Dogs D'Amour, Wizard Tattoo, The Devil Rides In, King Zog (Reviews...
Dogs D'Amour - Dynamite China Years: Complete Recordings 1988-1993 (HNE/Cherry Red Records)In the States the Dogs D'Amour were lumped in with the hair band stuff. Part was when they came out, part was...
View ArticleReviews: Hammerfall, Blues Pills, Blind Guardian, McPharaoh (Reviews By Matt...
HammerFall - Avenge The Fallen (Nuclear Blast Records)Hammerfall play heavy metal, classic heavy metal how it's meant to be played, influencing countless power metal acts, Hammerfall have always been a...
View ArticleReviews: Carnophage, ODA, Black Smoke Trigger, Fourth Dominion (Reviews By...
Carnophage– Matter Of A Darker Nature (Transcending Obscurity Records) [Zak Skane]In every 8 years the 5 piece metal outfit from Turkiye will bring another offering that is filled with brutal and...
View ArticleReviews: Blue Oyster Cult, Fireball Ministry, Oxygen Destroyer, Kurokuma...
Blue Oyster Cult - 50th Anniversary Live: Second Night (Frontiers Music Srl) [Rich Piva]I was admittedly extremely late to the Blue Oyster Cult party. Sure, I knew the hits and maybe one more layer...
View ArticleReviews: ASIWYFA, Heilung, Fulci, Mamaleek (Reviews By Mark Young, Zak Skane,...
And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna (Pelagic Records) [Mark Young]And to the opposite end of the spectrum with this delightful release from And So I Watch You From Afar (truncated to ASIWYFA to...
View ArticleA View From The Back of The Room: Radar Festival Day 1 (Live Review By Matt &...
Radar Festival 2024, O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 26-28.07.24Radar Festival continues to grow, now properly established at O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester, it gets bigger, better and more...
View ArticleA View From The Back of The Room: Radar Festival Day 2 (Live Review By Matt &...
Radar Festival 2024, O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 26-28.07.24Saturday 27.07.24If the beginning of Day 1 was loud. Then Day 2 was even louder with Tribe Of Ghosts (8) who are a punishing...
View ArticleA View From The Back of The Room: Radar Festival Day 3 (Live Review By Matt &...
Radar Festival 2024, O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 26-28.07.24Sunday 28.07.24Day 3 and it was in a little later to start as the first band we wanted to see was Adharma (9). Again a band made up of...
View ArticleA View From The Castle Grounds: Holding Absence At Chepstow Castle (Live...
Holding Absence, Casey, Caskets & Glass Hearts, Chepstow Castle 10.08,2024Allow me to paint a picture… it’s a warm summers day in one of Wales’s oldest castles in Chepstow. There’s an incredible...
View ArticleA View Of The Tributes: WV1 Fest (Live Review By James Jackson)
WV1 Fest - Saturday 10.08.24 Offering two stages, over two days and over twenty bands offering a wide variety of tribute acts to some of rock and metal’s most popular artists, WV1 Fest has been on the...
View ArticleReviews: Brave Rival, Hail Darkness, Berenice, Evilyn (Reviews By Paul...
Brave Rival – Fight Or Flight (Self Released) [Paul Scoble]Second albums have the tag of Difficult attached to them, a bands first album tends to contain songs that the band have been working on for...
View ArticleReviews: Heavenblack, Kaisas, Senses, Nightsteel (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Heavenblack - Blindfolded (Sleaszy Rider Records)Ahh nothing I like more than when a band successfully makes modern old school heavy metal. The Greeks seem to be especially good at it and Blindfolded...
View ArticleReviews: Scarlet Rebels, Dark Tranquillity, Tim Bowness, Extinction A.D...
Scarlet Rebels - Where The Colours Meet (Earache Records) [Matt Bladen]Scarlet Rebels have featured in these pages a lot, whether it's album or live reviews going right back to when they were V0id....
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