Dan Patlansky – Perfection Kills
The pursuit of perfection can be dangerous. Not only can it stiffle creativity it can eradicate the natural beauty that’s already there in favour...
DEFECTO seamlessly blend beautiful melodic parts with the more aggressive elements
Fast-paced, hard-hitting, anthemic and in some ways, slightly haunting are all ways to describe Defecto's new album, Nemesis Prime Collective. The Danish four-piece (a...
Review: Cardiant – Mirrors
Finnish power-metal outfit Cardiant, released their new album Mirrors last month, and well, for a band with almost 20 years experience, I would have...
Samantha Fish – Belle of The West
Samantha Fish flew into the UK at the tail end of last year and played some blistering blues rock with a terrific live band....
Black Label Society’s Grimmest Hits – A festival of riffing!
Grimmest Hits, the latest album from Zakk Wylde’s outfit Black Label Society is, surprise, surprise, a festival of riffing. What it's not as the...
One man’s journey to Maniacs Metal Meeting in Brazil
It's Thursday 7th December and I´m in the heart of Patagonia. It´s early in the morning and time to start a full extreme metal weekend....
Steve Hackett: Wuthering Nights – Live In Birmingham
Steve Hackett has performed at Birmingham Symphony Hall a fair few times now. From my experience, he always makes a point of saying how...
Black Country Communion – Wolverhampton Civic Hall, January 2nd 2018
I can trace my Black Country roots back to the 15th century. It’s not so much in pride as defence I declare this to...
A night of pop punk nostalgia hits Brixton as Good Charlotte give one hell...
You would imagine a gig like this would be full of little kids thinking pop-punk and emo music wasn't just a phase and that...
Venom’s Assault! is catchy and lethal black metal at its finest!
The legendary black metal pioneers Venom who hail from the very fine city that is Newcastle released a number of live EPs in a...
