A View From The Back Of The Room: A Heavy Night At Creature Sound
A Heavy Night At Creature Sound, Swansea,On a day where the evidence of climate change and the emergency which faces our planet became starkly clear (45.9° in France FFS!) and the UK sweltered, where...
View ArticleReviews: The Rods, Crooked Horns, Kaleidobolt, Pretty Wild (Manus)
The Rods: Brotherhood Of Metal (Steamhammer)You can’t take stuff like this too seriously if you’re going to enjoy it. While The Rods aren’t quite as ridiculous as, say, Manowar, the corny feel that’s...
View ArticleReviews: Krysthla, Abbath, Heilung, Auger (Paul H, Sean, Rich & Scott)
Krysthla: Worldwide Negative (PHD) [Paul H]Few albums have been more anticipated than the third release from possibly the best UK metal band around today, but when this bad boy dropped in the box I...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Glasnost At The Moon Cardiff
Glastnost Final Day Presented By Zed's Ded Promotions, The Moon, CardiffCardiff was buzzing due to the by all accounts scorching set from The Killers at Cardiff Castle the previous evening (their warm...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Demons & Wizards (Live Review By Paul H)
Demons & Wizards, Islington Assembly Hall, LondonPower metal. It’s a variable genre which ranges widely in both style and quality. American power metal is muscular, whereas German power metal is a...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: Ministry
Ministry, SWX, BristolI've seen Ministry (8) before, actually in Cardiff, it was one of the madest gigs I've ever seen, over an hour of visual and aural abuse from Uncle Al Jourgensen and his band as...
View ArticleReviews: Consecration, Desolate Plains, Old Forest, Kings Winter (Sean, Rich...
Consecration: Fragilium (Solitude Productions) [Sean]I would like to think that I’m a fairly jolly person, an optimist if you will. There’s not much on this big old ball of blue that really bothers me,...
View ArticleReviews: Chernaa, Piston, High Fighter, Highway Hunters (Matt & Sean)
Chernaa: Empyrean Fire (Noizr) [Sean]Yeah, this is good. I don’t normally start reviews with a positive comment, normally it’s some lengthy preamble and/or an opinion. But gosh darn it, I just could...
View ArticleReviews: Pijn & Conjurer, Skelator, Itheist, E-an-na (Matt, Rich & Paul H)
Pijn & Conjurer: Curse These Metal Hands (Holy Roar Records) [Matt]Take two of the best new bands around, both of whom are on one of the best record labels around Holy Roar Records, and smash them...
View ArticleReviews: Mirror, Bloody Hammers, Crypt Sermon, Nodafreth (Matt, Paul H & Scott)
Mirror: Pyramid Of Terror (Bad Omen Records) [Matt Bladen]The self proclaimed "Cypriot denizens of darkness" Mirror return with their second full length album, their first was released in 2015. Once...
View ArticleReviews: Bokassa, Black Sheep, Lone Gunmen, Ole English (Paul H & Liam)
Bokassa: Crimson Riders (MVKA) [Liam True]I'll be honest, until the band were announced as the opener support slot for Metallica on their recent stadium tour, I'd never heard of them before. But the...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: M2TM Bristol 2019 Grand Final (Live Review...
Bristol M2TM Grand Final, The Exchange, BristolThe second semi-final of the Bristol event was an enjoyable event and it was with relish that we returned to catch one of the last finals in the 31 which...
View ArticleA View From The Back Of The Room: The Stranglers (Live Review By Alex)
The Stranglers & Ruts DC, Caerphilly Castle, CaerphillyDespite being born into a musical landscape dominated by the raucous and unruly tones of punk, that particular garb never really suited the...
View ArticleReview: Sabaton, Turilli/Lione Rhapsody, Immortal Birds, Hammerhands (Matt,...
Sabaton: The Great War (Nuclear Blast) [Matt Bladen]Perfectly timed to coincide with the bands 20th anniversary, Swedish historical power metal act Sabaton's ninth (!) full length album is a concept...
View ArticleReviews: Aborted Earth, Bastion's Wake, Massive Destruktion, Rowsdower (Paul...
Aborted Earth: Cut The Cord (Self Released) [Lee Burgess]The new album from Aborted Earth, Cut The Cord is the kind of record most metal purists love to hate consisting of a mix of low-fi blackened...
View ArticleReviews: Pattern Seeking Animals, The Allman Betts Bands, Possessor,...
Pattern Seeking Animals: S/T (InsideOut Records)Pattern Seeking Animals combines the talents of former and current members of Spock’s Beard, the band is comprised of Jimmy Keegan (drums & vocals),...
View ArticleReviews: Eradikator, Come Back From The Dead, Sykelg Englen, Faithsedge...
Eradikator: Obscura (Divebomb Records) [Paul Hutchings]It’s been four long years since 2015’s sophomore release Edge Of Humanity wowed Matt with a 9/10. In those days the band were very much focused on...
View ArticleReviews: No One Knows What The Dead Think, Murderbird, Earthbound Machine, He...
No One Knows What The Dead Think: S/T (Willowtip) [Rich Oliver]No One Knows What The Dead Think is the new band from The Discordance Axis duo vocalist Jon Chang and guitarist Rob Marton who are also...
View ArticleReviews: Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Empyre, Hollow Haze, Sinheresy...
Robert Randolph & The Family Band: Brighter Days (Provogue) [Matt Bladen]We get shed load of really heavy, angry, aggressive music here at MoM Towers so sometimes it’s nice to hear something that...
View ArticleThe Spotlight: BOA New Blood Interview With Inferiem (Interview By Paul H)
In the hotbed of Glasgow, it was Inferiem who came out victorious at the M2TM final. Their metalcore the approach will go down well at BOA and I caught up with the band to find out a bit more about...
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