HIM go out with a “Bang and Whimper” | Manchester
After 26 years together, HIM announced their farewell UK tour which they have dubbed “The Bang and Whimper” tour, which sold out months in...
Live Review – Avatar, Manchester Academy
Avatar, no not the film, it’s the crazy Sweedish band and tonight they invade Manchester.
A circus theme intro song is played, one by one members...
Ada Lea introduces prog to pop with ‘what we say in private’.
A conceptual pop album from a Canadian vocalist isn’t the usual sort of fodder for these pages, but Ada Lea has produced a record of...
Little Albert Is A Swamp King
Take the Italian Doom band Messa, a four-piece influenced by equally doomy bands such as Pentagram or Bathory. Then, extract the superbly named lead...
Review: Hellcats – Warrior Princess
With song titles like ‘Viking’, ‘Proud To Be Loud’, ‘Demon Dreams’ and indeed ‘Heavy Metal’ itself you know this is rawk writ large with...
Review: All To Ruin – Among Us
Yet another band with a name that makes you hope it doesn't extend to their music.
From Port Talbot, South Wales. All To Ruin formed...
Review: Below – Upon A Pale Horse
Doom metal according to Wikipedia: "Doom metal is an extreme style of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a...
Ravenlight’s ‘Project Genesis’ is a breath of fresh air into symphonic power metal
Project Genesis is the debut album coming from Irish symphonic power metal trio Ravenlight. Despite the band having only three members, they’re not short...
Jonny Cola & The A-Grades ‘Spitfire’
Hark! Is that a Rolls-Royce engine that I can hear puffing away beyond those branches? Perhaps it is. Is that a Beano annual that...
Live: Dope, Anti-Clone, Killus – Islington Academy, London
Killus are mad. Donning coloured eye contacts, what can only be described as ‘Joker’ makeup and tongues tangling out, it’s fair to say this...
