Reviews: Kansas, Hallatar, Stormbringer, Noturnall
Kansas: Leftoverture Live & Beyond (InsideOut)Taken from various shows on legendary prog rockers Kansas' 40th Anniversary of Leftoverture tour, made up of two discs this expansive live record...
View ArticleReviews: Cannibal Corpse, Blues Pills, The Offering, Heretic (Reviews By Paul)
Cannibal Corpse: Red Before Black (Metal Blade Records)2017 has been a year when so many heavy hitters in the death metal scene have delivered absolute monsters. Beasts from Obituary, Suffocation....
View ArticleReviews: Beast In Black, Butcher Babies, Fire Red Empress, Iain Jennings
Beast In Black: Berserker (Nuclear Blast)When Anton Kabanen left Finnish metal band Battle Beast in 2015, there wasn't much of a chance he was going to start playing folk, he dove straight into making...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Gov't Mule (Live Review By Paul)
Gov't Mule - Tramshed, CardiffThe announcement of rare UK dates by Gov't Mule (10) earlier this year was made even more appetising by the fact that one of the two dates was in Cardiff. A packed...
View ArticleReview: Vuur, Cyhra, The Radio Sun, Wildestarr
Vuur: In This Moment We Are Free - Cities (InsideOut)Vuur is the latest band from the enchanting Anneke Van Giersbergen, it's an often proven point that anything she lends her vocals too is usually of...
View ArticleA Review From The Back Of The Room: Arun Ghosh (Album & Live Review By Paul)
Arun Ghosh: But Where Are You Really From?For those who might like to branch out from the usual smashing and crashing of the hard rock and metal may I recommend a listen to the fourth album from the...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Power Quest, Fury & Malum Sky
Power Quest, Fury, Malum Sky, Fuel Rock Club, CardiffCardiff city centre is always chaotic when there is a major sporting or music event in our city. For those of you that have never been to Cardiff,...
View ArticleReviews: Trivium, RAM, In Defilade, Fifth Freedom (Reviews By Paul)
Trivium: The Sin And The Sentence (Roadrunner)After their rather lacklustre last album, the Floridians blast back with a monster of a release which improves with every listen. Technically superb, at...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Y&T
Y&T and Beth Blade & The Beautiful Disasters, Tramshed CardiffIt was brisk night in Cardiff as we headed to the Tramshed for our third gig in three days, the last time we were here the mighty...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Metallica (Live Review By Paul)
Metallica – Genting Arena, Birmingham 30th October 2017Despite the outcry over the high-ticket prices, the usual backlash to anything new the band release and the general antipathy towards them from...
View ArticleReviews: Serenity, Jeff Scott Soto, Night Legion, Goya
Serenity: Lionheart (Napalm Records)We know now with hindsight that King Richard The Lionheart was a bit of dick, a warmongering Religious fanatic who, ritually committed genocide in the name of his...
View ArticleReviews: Exhumed, LA Guns, Heaven & Earth, Solar Sons (Reviews By Paul)
Exhumed: Death Revenge (Relapse Records)San Jose’s death metal outfit Exhumed have been consistent in their releases since their reformation in 2010. Death Revenge continues the biannual output and...
View ArticleHard Rock Hell XI Preview (By Paul)
Hard Rock Hell XI Preview Less than 24 hours until the gates open at Hafan Y Mor in North Wales and anticipation is beginning to rise. It’s always a good crack with many good bands, friendly fans, long...
View ArticleReviews: Arrayan Path, Exarsis, One Step From The Edge, Steamroller Assault
Arrayan Path: Dawn Of Aquarius (Pitch Black records)A year after their most recent album epic power metal band Arrayan Path return with their latest record, the band from Limassol (Lemesos) Cyprus have...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Damnation (Live Review By Paul)
Damnation Festival 2017, Leeds University Students UnionThe annual gathering of some of the more extreme end of the metal spectrum boasted a rather fabulous line-up this year and it was no surprise...
View ArticleReviews: Europe, Appice, Trucker Diablo, Code Red (Reviews By Paul)
Europe: Walk The Earth (Hell & Back Recordings)Album number 11 from the Swedes and it’s a fine piece of bluesy melodic hard rock. The band who will forever be associated with The Final Countdown...
View ArticleReviews: Pink Cream 69, Jared James Nichols, Daydream XI, Mortishead
Pink Cream 69: Headstrong (Frontiers)Headstrong marks 30 years of German metal/rock band Pink Cream 69, founded by singer Andi Deris, guitarist Alfred Koffler, and bassist/producer Dennis Ward, they...
View ArticleReviews: Annihilator, Evertale, Hanging Garden, Madam X (Reviews By Paul)
Annihilator: For The Demented (Neverland Music Inc)Album number 16 for the crazy Canadians and it’s a quite fantastic return to form. It’s only been two years since the solid Suicide Society was...
View ArticleA View From The Back of The Room: HRH (Review By Paul)
Hard Rock Hell 9th – 11th November 2017 Hafan Y Mor, Pwllheli, North WalesIt’s been a while since we’ve been to the holiday camp in North Wales for a weekend of rocking and rolling. The usual chaos...
View ArticleThe Spotlight: Interview With Jonne Von Hertzen Of The Von Hertzen Brothers
Interview With Jonne Von Hertzen, Hard Rock Hell XIMoM: You're about halfway through a UK tour at the moment, how is it going so far?Jonne: Good(Panic set in as this may have been a one word...
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