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Fans of Falkenbach would be forgiven for thinking it’s been a very long time since the band’s mastermind Vratyas Vakyas last produced what could be described as a ‘classic’ album. It’s was ten years ago he released Ok Nefna Tysvar… Continue Reading →
Italian hard rock band release an album of unplugged tracks with a Mexican theme. Hmmmmmmmm. Like having a chianti with your chimichanga. I was sceptical and it turns out with good reason. Rain are an accomplished hard rock band who… Continue Reading →
WAN do not fuck about. This is the Swedes 2nd album after 2010’s ‘Wolves of the North’, and damn will it erode your ear drums. In simple terms, what we have here is just over 30 minutes of noisy prototypical… Continue Reading →
London has gone mad with shows this week. Just after Leeds was hit by Damnation the Rotting Christ tour followed down the M1 and also Paradise Lost were joined by Katatonia. Swallow The Sun, Windhand, Jex Thoth and even Skid… Continue Reading →
With the re-release of an album like Viva Emptiness it’s as well for me to state where I stand on the original. I owe Katatonia more than most bands as, without being overly dramatic ‘Discouraged Ones’ had a definite hand… Continue Reading →
The Press Release states Iron Mask are a Neo-Classical Power Metal band. If said press release hadn’t claimed this, then I wouldn’t have spent the whole of the first track thinking that someone had played a cruel trick and substituted… Continue Reading →
Blowing off the cobwebs of your stereo and denim are Sweden’s Night, their previous two 7 inch singles were an indication of their sound, their style and this is the first full length album that I have really been waiting… Continue Reading →
Listening to a GWAR album can be a little like going swimming without any water. There is definitely something missing from the experience, unless perhaps you get a load of mates round straight from the butchers shop to throw blood,… Continue Reading →
My first experience of Exivious finds me questioning my relationship with metal and my own expectations of metal – at what point does something stop being metal and start being something else? The reason for this self-analysis is due to… Continue Reading →
I will confess that I was a little confused when asked by my editor to review this; hadn’t I just reviewed Tombstones a couple of weeks ago? Nope, this is Tombstoned, a different, albeit confusingly similarly named band. Hey, I… Continue Reading →
Symphonic Black Metal… And there you go, half of you reading this have just thought, “Oh, another load of Cradle Of Filth/Dimmu Borgir wannabes”. Fair point. It feels like in the last 10 years the term has been synonymous with… Continue Reading →
You can tell how successful a festival is by the amount of people there and even as we enter the labyrinth Leeds University to negotiate the four stages that the event has been expanded to the first band on our… Continue Reading →