Reviews: Smoke Signals, Aenimus, Echoes Of Eternity, To The Rats And Wolves...
Smoke Signals: Letting Go (Self Released)I’m finding this album difficult to review because honestly, I enjoyed it that much. If Breaking Benjamin added some beef to their band’s diet I believe this...
View ArticleReviews: Venom Prison, The Air Turned To Acid, Transients, Xeria (Paul S &...
Venom Prison: Samsara (Prosthetic Records) [Paul S]To say Venom Prison’s second album has been highly anticipated, is an understatement. Venom Prison exploded onto the death metal scene in 2016 with...
View ArticleReviews: Hedfuzy, Last In Line, The Devil And The Almighty Blues, Wicked...
Hedfuzy: Waves (Hostile Media)Hedfuzy mastermind Pat Byrne proves himself something of a musical visionary on Waves, his second record under the Hedfuzy moniker. It features an entirely different...
View ArticleReviews: Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Sadhus, Bonzai, Kaisas (Paul S & Paul H)
Der Weg Einer Freiheit: Live In Berlin (Season Of Mist) [Paul S]German black metal band Der Weg Einer Freiheit have been going since 2009. The band have quite quietly produced several very good,...
View ArticleReviews: Kaleikr, Crystal Lake, Far From Refuge, From Sorrow To Serenity,...
Kaleikr: Heart Of Lead (Debemur Morti Productions) [Mark]Well shit, Kaleikr have done something that I thought was near enough impossible with modern music. That thing? Delivering a healthy dose of...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Ward Thomas (Live Review By Becca)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Just thought I'd chime in and say that as we are a Cardiff based blog we are invited to numerous gigs in the city, this proved to be one of the more interesting ones despite it not...
View ArticleReviews: Tragedy (Interview/Live/Album Review By Gareth)
Tragedy, Interview with Mo'Royce Peterson, Review of Goes To The Movies album and live review of their show at the Lexington in London"It's very much a Concept album," Founding member, guitarist and...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Wille & The Bandits
Wille & The Bandits & Rainbreakers, Clwb Ifor Bach, CardiffA Thursday night and in change from the usual heaviness we have it was time for something a bit more laid back. Organised by those...
View ArticleBloodstock Metal To The Masses Heat 4 Review
Metal To The Masses South Wales Heat 4, Fuel Rock Club, CardiffHaving barely recovered from the excitement and drama of Heat 3 we were back at Fuel once more for another evening of suspense, drama and...
View ArticleReviews: Mark Morton, Holding Absence, Storm Haven, Sykelig Englen (Paul H,...
Mark Morton: Anaesthetic (Spinefarm Records) [Paul H]The Lamb Of God guitarist’s debut solo release has taken some time to deliver. Is it worth the wait? Well, it’s hard to really say. Few of the...
View ArticleReviews: Misery Index, High Reeper, Time Primer, S91 (Rich, Paul H & Matt)
Misery Index: Rituals Of Power (Season Of Mist) [Rich]Ever since their inception in 2001, Misery Index have been a force to be reckoned with in the world of death metal with several acclaimed albums...
View ArticleReviews: Týr, Green Lung, Critical Defiance, Beyond The Existence (Paul S &...
Týr: Hel (Metal Blade Records) [Rich]After what seems like a very long six year gap since 2013’s Valkyrja album Faroese metallers Týr return with Hel which is their eighth album of Norse mythology...
View ArticleReviews: FM, Re-Animator, Gary Hoey, Profundae Libidines, Tome (Paul H)
FM: The Italian Job Live (Frontiers Records)I saw FM most recently supporting Saxon at the Barrowland in Glasgow. The band had been catapulted into that tour as a last-minute replacement for Y&T,...
View ArticleReviews: Gary Clark Jr, A New Revenge, Pharlee, DiAmorte (Matt & Polly)
Gary Clark Jr: This Land (Warner Bros) [Matt]Once rightly described as the "new-Hendrix" and hailed by people as veritable as Barack Obama, 34 year old Austin native Gary Clark Jr, shot to stardom with...
View ArticleReviews: Weezer, Tim Bowness, Hazpiq, Lucidity (Reviews By Alex)
Weezer: Weezer Black Album (Crush Music/Atlantic}‘Leave a five-star review, and we’ll leave you one too’, Rivers promises on the subtly critic-bashing opener to Weezer’s 12th studio outing. I have to...
View ArticleReviews: Wheel, Sisters Of Suffocation, Fallujah, Mindlane, Doro (Paul H)
Wheel: Moving Backwards (OMN Label Services)There are occasions where you listen to an album and are instantly able to review it. There are other times when you really need to spend some time getting...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: The Vibrators (Live Review By Alex)
The Vibrators, Poetic Justice & Ill Fate, Fuel Rock Club, CardiffFuel was always going to be busy tonight. Both Rugby and football have conspired to pack out nearly every pun in the Capital. On top...
View ArticleReviews: Queensryche, Tesla, Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts, Atorc (Paul H,...
Queensrÿche: The Verdict (Century Media) [Paul H]Album number 15 for the band who formed in Bellevue, Washington, way back in 1980. It’s also album number three with singer Todd La Torre, who replaced...
View ArticleReviews: BloodBound, Parallel Minds, Perdition, Statement (Manus)
Bloodbound: Rise Of The Dragon Empire (AFM Records)You have to go into this record without expecting anything too serious. It’s delightfully fun, if a little cartoonish, but boasts some impressive...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: UFO (Live Review By Paul H)
UFO - Last Orders Tour, O2 Academy, Bristol & The Tramshed, CardiffI’ve written and eulogised about UFO plenty of times before in these pages. Frontman Phil Mogg publicly stated that this tour...
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