A View From The Back Of The Room: Glenn Hughes (Live Review By Paul H)
Glenn Hughes, Tramshed, CardiffWhen I was younger I never used to like Glenn Hughes. I was always a MK II Deep Purple fan. As a teenager getting seriously stuck into the back catalogue of one of the...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Diamond Head (Live Review By Paul H)
Diamond Head, Muni Centre, PontypriddI’m really enjoying gigs at the Muni in Ponty. The Sound is superb, there’s enough room to avoid some punter’s armpit in your face and the bar, despite the awful...
View ArticleReviews: Behemoth, Riverside, Coheed & Cambria, MMMD (Reviews By Paul H, Alex...
Behemoth: I Loved You At Your Darkest (Nuclear Blast) [Paul H]It’s been a good year for black metal. The return of the big guns like Immortal and Dimmu Borgir who rolled out massive albums interspersed...
View ArticleReviews: Seventh Wonder, Beyond Creation Ramage Inc, Warrell Dane (Reviews By...
Seventh Wonder: Tiara (Frontiers Records) [Matt]Ok I'm going to say something controversial and probably a little snobby. The snobby bit: I have liked Seventh Wonder since the Swedish band put out...
View ArticleReviews: Benighted, Idlewar, Bad Touch, The Virginmarys (Reviews By Paul H &...
Benighted: Dogs Always Bite Harder Than Their Master (Season Of Mist)Well this is a face melting son of a bitch and make no mistake. The French madness which has struck terror for the past 20 years...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Yob & Wiegedood (Live Review By Paul S)
Yob And Wiegedood, The Fleece, BristolDue to traffic jams on the M4 the bands were late getting to the venue, so everything was moved back by 30 minutes. However there weren’t any complaints coming...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Coheed And Cambria (Live Review By Alex)
Coheed And Cambria, Y Plas, CardiffHere I am, second time seeing Coheed and Cambria live. While I do not like to distinguish between successful bands and small venue acts, they are now the first major...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Evil Scarecrow (Live Review By Neil Lewis)
Evil Scarecrow, Motion, BristolThe first time I saw Evil Scarecrow (10) was back at Hammerfest in 2012. Since then it has pleased me to see the band’s following (and consequently the venues they play)...
View ArticleThe Spotlight: Interview With Away From Voivod By Paul S
Interview with Michel ‘Away’ Langevin, The Globe, CardiffI met Michel ‘Away’ Langevin at The Globe shortly before the gig. When I got to the venue he was talking to fans that had gathered outside. As I...
View ArticleReviews: Northward, OHHMS, Full House Brew Crew, Emersis
Northward: Self Titled (Nuclear Blast)Northward is an album/project that was always going to appeal to me, I'm in love with the vocals of Floor Jansen from her time in After Forever and Jørn Viggo...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Ablated (Live Review By Alyn)
Ablated, Carnivore Diprosopus, Seprevation, Cryptworm & Black Pyre, Fuel Rock Club CardiffNow that we're entering the autumnal months the intensity at which Fuel and Cardiff is being laid siege to...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: High On Fire & Enslaved (Live Review By Rich)
High On Fire, Enslaved and Krakow at SWX, BristolThe draw of a co-headlining show from both High On Fire and Enslaved brought a respectably sized crowd to SWX in Bristol on a Sunday night. Kicking...
View ArticleReviews: Scorched, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Birdpen, Binah (Reviews By...
Scorched: Ecliptic Butchery (20 Buck Spin) [Sean]In a world where reinventing the wheel is the idiom of the day, death metal falls into one of 3 categories. There are those that seek to redesign the...
View ArticleReviews: The Struts, Witherfall, Cold Night For Alligators, Jo Quail
The Struts: Young And Dangerous (Interscope)The re-release of The Struts' debut record Everybody Wants became my album of the year last year, so it was with a heck of a lot of anticipation I pressed...
View ArticleReviews: The Brew, Drift Into Black, Arion, Widetrack (Reviews By Paul H)
The Brew: Art Of Persuasion (Napalm Records)The Brew were one of those bands that we appeared destined never to see live. Several cancelled gigs in Bristol and Cardiff frustrated the flip out of us...
View ArticleReviews: Nosound, Vitja, Walking Dead On Broadway, Rise Of The Northstar...
Nosound: Allow Yourself (Kscope) [Sean]Shockingly, there are many genres of music other than metal. Outside the walls of blast beats, shredding and shrieks exists vast eco systems of sounds. Said...
View ArticleReviews: Heir Apparent, Bearfist, Void Titan, The Outlaw Orchestra
Heir Apparent: The View From Below (No Remorse Records)Formed in Seattle by guitarist Terry Gorle in 1983 Heir Apparent are a band who suffered a fate similar to many at that time by breaking up/going...
View ArticleReviews: Impellitteri, Send Request, Atlas, Onkel Tom (Reviews By Rich & Matt N)
Impellitteri: Nature Of The Beast (Frontiers) [Rich]Impellitteri are a band I’ve never heard of before considering they have been going since 1987 and about a minute into their new and eleventh album...
View ArticleReviews: High On Fire, Earthless, Mirrors For Psychic Warfare, Sunless Dawn...
High On Fire: Electric Messiah (Entertainment One Music) [Paul S]Matt Pike has been really busy this year. Not content to release a brilliant new Sleep album (The Sciences), he’s also back with a new...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Saxon (Live Review By Paul H)
Saxon & FM, Barrowland Ballroom, GlasgowI’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen Saxon. It must be close to ten in the last six years alone. One of the hardest working bands in the world of...
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