Review: Empire Of Fools – Devil Inside
A new breed of what’s good about rock music; the collaboration of Cobbin/Pascall has resulted in a marriage of sounds, eclectic tastes and influences...
2000 Trees Festival: The Highlights
If you’re beginning to tire of the sponsor-laden hoo-hah, countless ‘festival fashion’ articles and ever-increasing ticket prices that you get with mainstream festivals, it...
Review: Immortal Bird – Empress/Abscess
If you could conjure up the blackest evil in your nightmares then you would find yourself in the middle of listening to Immortal Bird....
Review: Whitesnake – The Purple Album
I was the first one on the phone ranting about this album to friends. Kindred spirits, some of us old enough to be granddads,...
Live Review: Enter Shikari at Motion, Bristol
It’s rather admirable that Shikari have stuck to playing this show. Originally billed as a Download Festival ‘warm-up’ gig, the sudden illness of lead...
Review: Lamb Of God – VII: Sturm Und Drang
Finally, as the hiatus comes to an end and the teasers have been doing their job for the past few months, time grows curiously...
Review: Donnie Vie – The White Album
Former Enuff Z’nuff lead vocalist Donnie Vie takes his infatuation with The Beatles to extremes with The White Album, not least in paying homage...
Review: John Lodge – 10,000 Light Years Ago
Beginning with a single Fender Precision bass note that becomes a rhythmic heartbeat, electric guitars break out, envelope, search, then cry despairingly during ‘In...
Review: Cradle Of Filth – Hammer Of The Witches
Cradle of Filth, a band that surely needs no introduction but perhaps a brief history lesson. Since their inception in 1991, the band has...
Review: Strains – Redefined
Genre: Metalcore
'The Great Disconnect' is a progressive menagerie of vibrant riffs that expand the mind and disorientate the senses. The vocal scathing is torrential...
