Another Point Of View: ZZ Top
ZZ Top: Wembley Arena, LondonExactly two years to the day I saw the mighty Texans play a set at Hammersmith Odeon that was so cool and oozing with quality that it ranks in my top five gigs of all time....
View ArticleReviews: Status Quo, Unleash The Archers, Next To None
Status Quo: Aquostic (Stripped Bare) (earMusic)Cased in one of the most terrifying covers in history, mainmen Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt in the all-together their crown jewels covered only by their...
View ArticleReviews: Borealis, Whiskey Hell, Jackaman
Borealis: Purgatory (AFM)Purgatory is a good name Canadian melo-power metallers Borealis as it seems the band have been languishing there since their second album Fall From Grace in 2011. Now Fall From...
View ArticleReviews: Chaos Magic, Dendra, Mantra Vega
Chaos Magic: Chaos Magic (Frontiers)Timo Tolkki is a name known to anyone who has been around the symphonic/power metal scene since it's inception, he is the founder member of Stratovarius and after...
View ArticleReviews: Empire Of Fools, Against Evil, Soulthern
Empire Of Fools: Devil Inside (Self Released)OK! OK! I'll hold my hands up, I missed Empire Of Fools when they supported BlackWolf in Bristol a month ago, so I was more than happy to receive their new...
View ArticleReviews: Bill Ward (Monster Review By Paul)
Bill Ward: Accountable Beasts (Aston Cross Music)The third solo album from original Sabbath drummer Bill Ward, arriving some 18 years after his previous release. Over the past few years, Ward has been...
View ArticleAnother Point Of View: AC/DC (Review By Paul)
AC/DC: Wembley StadiumThe trouble with stadium gigs, like most large events, are the other people. Idiots with no consideration for others, who spend their time trooping back and fore to the bar,...
View ArticleReviews: Jaded Star, Freedom Hawk, Blizzard Hunter
Jaded Star: Memories From The Future (Sensory Records)Jaded Star are a metal band hailing from Greece, they were formed by former Visions Of Atlantis vocalist Maxi Nil along with guitarist Kosta Vreto,...
View ArticleAnother Point Of View: Robert Plant (Review By Paul)
Robert Plant And The Sensational Shape Shifters – Westonbirt AboretumIt was only in November last year that Robert Plant and his band played a stunning and almost intimate set at the Newport Centre; a...
View ArticleReviews: Maya, Naxatras, Lethal Dose
Maya: The Prophecy Is Broken (Underground Symphony)There is a a band called Royal Hunt who hail from Denmark and they play progressive/symphonic/melodic metal, now they are somewhat of a cult act in...
View ArticleReviews: We Are Harlot, The Protomen, Eradikator
We Are Harlot: We Are Harlot (Roadrunner)A lot has been made of We Are Harlot in the mainstream rock press, they are hailed as being one of the bands proudly flying the flag for the next generation of...
View ArticleReviews: George Lynch, Nuclear Assault, Orchid (Reviews By Paul)
George Lynch: Shadow Train (Rat Pak Records)Let’s make this statement right at the start. George Lynch is one hell of a guitarist. One of the main hard rock guitarists in the 1980s with Dokken and his...
View ArticleReviews: The V, Enertia, City Of Thieves
The V (Veronica Freeman): Now Or Never (Frontiers)Veronica Freeman will be familiar to many who know a thing or two about the metal scene, the voluptuous Amazonian queen of scream has fronted American...
View ArticleReviews: Symphony X (Monster Review)
Symphony X: Underworld (Nuclear Blast)American progressive metal legends Symphony X are finally back, they are a band that release albums with such infrequency that every release is a bit of an event....
View ArticleThe View From The Top Of The Mountain: Steelhouse 2015 (Review By Paul)
Steelhouse Festival 2015 – Hafod y Dawal Farm, Ebbw ValeNow in its fifth year, the Welsh International Classic Rock Festival as it is badged is going from strength to strength. With the support of...
View ArticleReviews: Wearing Scars, One Machine, Krysthla
Wearing Scars: A Thousand Words (Candyman)Bands come and bands go but some burn very brightly and then just disappear without warning. Mutiny Within and Sacred Mother Tongue are two such instances,...
View ArticleReviews: Lamb Of God (Monster Review By Paul)
Lamb Of God: VII Sturm Und Drang (Nuclear Blast)Is there anyone in the Western world of metal who hasn't heard or read about D. Randall Blythe’s unjust incarceration in Pankrac prison in the Czech...
View ArticleAnother Point Of View: Soulfly (Review By Paul)
Soulfly: The GlobeLess than 24 hours after the classic rock fest of Saturday at Steelhouse had warmed us on the mountains of Aberbeeg, I found myself with some of the MoM posse at The Globe for...
View ArticleAnother Point Of View: Queensryche (Review By Paul)
Queensryche: The Motion BristolWith the car packed and all travel arrangements in place, a quick trip across the Severn was the ideal precursor for our annual trip to Catton Hall for Bloodstock Open...
View ArticleReviews: Roger Waters
Roger Waters: Amused To Death 2015 (Colombia)After leaving Pink Floyd Roger Waters set about on a solo career, he focused on the concept album format that he was the architect of in Pink Floyd. Waters...
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