A View From The Back Of The Room: Black Star Riders, Gun, The Amorettes
Black Star Riders – Tramshed, CardiffCardiff’s Tramshed always offers a warm welcome, in more ways than you may expect. A capacity crowd full of mainly mature classic rock fans crammed into a venue...
View ArticleReviews: Crystal Fairy, Mothership, Cryptic Realms
Crystal Fairy: S/T (Ipecac)Crystal Fairy is an interesting prospect with two members of The Melvins, Buzz Osborne (guitar) and Dale Crover (drums) you can always say that about any project that stems...
View ArticleReviews: Sinister, Striker, Unearthly Trance (Reviews By Rich)
Sinister: Syncretism (Massacre Records)Dutch death metal veterans Sinister strike hard with their twelfth album Syncretism showing that old school death metal is still very much alive and well in 2017....
View ArticleAnother Point Of View: Kreator (Live Review By Stief)
Kreator, O2 Forum, Kentish Town, LondonHaving only walked in for the end of their set, I don't feel it's fair to score Sepultura but I will say that having heard closing songs Ratamahatta and fan...
View ArticleReviews: Ancestral, Deivos, Dusius (Reviews By Paul)
Ancestral: Master Of Fate (Iron Shield Records)This release is just fabulous if you like a bit of European power metal. Hailing from Castelvetrano in Sicily, Master Of Fate is the band’s second long...
View ArticleReviews: Unruly Child, Lionville, Tokyo Motor Fist
Unruly Child: Can't Go Home (Frontiers)Can't Go Home is American AOR band Unruly Child's seventh album and sees the core membership of trailblazing vocalist Marcie Free, guitarist Bruce Gowdy,...
View ArticleReviews: Emmure, Suicide Silence, Aversions Crown (Reviews By Lee)
Emmure: Look At Yourself (Sharptone Records)Keeping on par with traditions of previous albums where the introduction track lasts roughly around 1 minute 40 seconds, You Asked For It eases the way into...
View ArticleReviews: Bloodbound, Bonafide, Screamer (Reviews By Stief)
Bloodbound: War Of The Dragons (AFM Records)How I've not heard more of Swedish outfit Bloodbound before now is a shock to my system. Dragons, battles, kings, this album has it all. The intro, A New Era...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Blaze Bayley
Blaze Bayley, Fuel Rock Club, CardiffThe former Iron Maiden current Wolfsbane singer made his third trip to Cardiff in three years, this time on the back of his latest album Endure And Survive which is...
View ArticleReviews: Danko Jones, The Charm The Fury, Lux Perpetua
Danko Jones: Wild Cat (AFM)Danko Jones is a man that bleeds rock n roll, it's his reason for getting up in the morning over the course of his career and 8 albums he may not have gained arena level...
View ArticleReviews: Blaze Bayley, Majesty, OHHMS
Blaze Bayley: Endure & Survive (Blaze Bayley Recordings)This record is the second part of a trilogy following a re-programmed assassin on a quest to dealing with what it is to be human, it's the...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Devin Townsend Project
Devin Townsend Project, TesseracT & Leprous, Colston Hall, BristolFinally a chance to see Devin Townsend in a venue with good sound and promising support was too much of a opportunity to pass up...
View ArticleReviews: Memoriam, Anewrage, Havok (Reviews By Paul)
Memoriam: For The Fallen (Nuclear Blast)If like me you were lucky enough to have seen Bolt Thrower before their untimely but totally understandable cessation in 2015, you will have been waiting for...
View ArticleReviews: Them, Sail, Basement Torture Killings (Reviews By Rich)
Them: Sweet Hollow (Empire Records)Them are an internationally based King Diamond tribute band who have decided to write and record their own material with 'Sweet Hollow' being their debut album. The...
View ArticleReviews: Sumo Cyco (Review By Neil)
Sumo Cyco: Opus Mar (Self Released)“Listen to raggapunk” read the slogan on an old school Skindred t-shirt. This would be good advice if there were any bands other than the Dred making music of that...
View ArticleReviews: The Silent Wedding, Dead South Dealers, Quadrus
The Silent Wedding: Enigma Eternal (FYB Records)Greek progressive/symphonic metal band with a male singer, sounds a bit like Kamelot or Serenity with the melodic metal sounds intertwining with...
View ArticleReviews: Obituary, Svart Crown,The Crawling, Axxis (Reviews By Paul)
Obituary: Self Titled (Relapse)The teaser EP Ten Thousand ad Ways To Die which signalled the return to the studio of the Floridian Death Metal legends back in November 2016 was a tasty morsel which...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Gojira (Live Review By Paul & Nick)
Gojira - O2 Academy BristolA sold out crowd in boisterous mood meant that this was an evening of high intensity for start to finish. Securing a place on the balcony early doors gave a great view and a...
View ArticleReviews: Pallbearer, Eclipse, GraViL
Pallbearer: Heartless (Nuclear Blast)Having only recently discovered Little Rock, Arkansas' Pallbearer I have avidly listened to their two previous records and I really think that they could be one of...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Sonata Arctica, Striker & Triosphere (Live...
Sonata Arctica - Tramshed, CardiffPaul- Having checked that all vital organs were still located where they were meant to be after the battering that Gojira gave them the night before, we headed the...
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