Opinion

The Mariana Hollow are a female fronted, London based 5 piece who play dark, ambient progressive rock.. Fronted by the gorgeous and extremely talented Rebecca Spinks, TMH are a force to be heard both live and on album. Recently they have been on tour across the UK with the mighty …

Fantasist are a wierd, progressive blues rock band from Manchester, who wear pinstriped suits onstage… What could be better? After the release of their astounding debut album entitled, Giggle Juice last year – Fantasist have had a relentless year touring all across the UK and Europe and have recently opened …

Hailing from Coventry, Steel Threads are a power folk band armed only with a fiddle, double bass, acoustic guitar and the power of ones voice. At their recent show in Manchester supporting the mighty Breed 77, lead singer and guitar player Neil, took the time to talk to me about …

Just under two weeks before this metal monster of a quadruple bill rolled into Belfast, the demolition crews moved into the neighbouring Spring and Airbrake (separated only from the Limelight by the width of the rawk ‘n’ roll watering hole that is Katy Daly’s) to gut the place out in …

I had the honor of catching up with former Exodus singer Zetro aka Steve Souza about his new band Hatriot via email.   Hello Steve! Great news that Hatriot has taken off. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. It is my pleasure.  I’m glad to talk …

When New Orleans black metallers Goatwhore hit the UK, in support of both their fifth studio album, ‘Blood For The Master’  and 3 Inches Of Blood, we caught up with vocalist Ben Falgoust as the tour hit Belfast, where he updated us on the reaction to said album, talked about …

Irish trio Dead Label! became the envy of bands all over the island of Ireland when they landed the prestigious opening slot for Machine Head’s only headlining shows outside Download – at Belfast’s Ulster Hall on May 28 and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre two nights later. As the young band gear …

Metal and Rock returned to the Railway for another night of high volume and high energy mischief, with a triple bill of quite varied bands. First up are Polly, a Nirvana tribute/covers band who kick things off very nicely with a 45 minute set of grunge which is well received. …

I was looking forward to tonight’s gig at Ivory Blacks as I’ve not seen Mair play in ages and I was definitely looking forward to hearing some of the new tracks played live from Blaze’s latest album ‘The King Of  Metal’ that was released in March this year. When I …

Sunday afternoon on the May bank holiday seen me heading through to Ivory Blacks in Glasgow for the second day of Rock For Funds. Tonight’s bill was called the ‘Rock Extravaganza’ a mixture of cover/tribute bands along with local bands and headliners Kyrbgrinder who hail from London I had been …

Primordial haven’t been to Manchester for nearly 18 years, their fans were queuing up round the block of Moho Live. Great news for first support Winterfylleth, as the audience gave them a warm welcome to the stage, coming in with ‘Mam Tor (The Shivering Mountain)’. Winterfylleth have a heavy focus …

Once again I find myself in Camden Underground for yet another sold-out gig. This time round we have Californian metalcore band Of Mice and Men, and their merry crew of support from Crossfaith, With One Last Breath and Bury Tomorrow. Certainly a loud and wild evening was ahead of me, …

Exit State opened the show tonight, and it didn’t take long for Roy Bright and the rest of the guys to win the crowd over. During their 30 minute set playing down to earth hard rock and roll they showed us why they are one of the best up and …

With One Last Breath took a quick breather from their soundcheck at Camden’s Underworld venue and sat down with us for an interview about life on the road, WOLBies (did they just coin an affectionate new term for their fans here? I think they did) and their upcoming album.   …

Planetmosh’s Lara Kisel, catches up with Fury UK whilst they supported for Michael Schenker in Europe. We find out just what Fury UK plans are now Luke has joined ICED EARTH and discuss what the other members are getting their teeth sucked into. Lara- Hope your all doing well these …

  Lara- Weapon have been going since the 80s, what can you tell us about the background of Weapon? Who is Weapon and what is Weapon about?  Danny: Formed in March 1980 after Jeff posted an advert in Melody Maker looking for a singer at the same time Danny posted …

Firewind are due to release their latest album, “Few against many” on 21st May.  I recently spoke to Firewind guitarist Gus G to talk about the new album, his work with Ozzy and more. To listen to the interview, hit play on the player below..    

I’ve never been one to believe the weather forecast, so when the local BBC failed to predict a massive storm front breaking over Belfast on an otherwise un-seasonally cold late Spring Saturday evening – well, you just know that they simply haven’t got a clue…. Not that they hadn’t been …

There I was, ’round my local Wetherspoons, quietly minding my own business and reading my Sunday newspaper while enjoying my traditional Ulster Fry when I saw a headline which nearly made me choke on my extra piece of grilled potato bread… “The Vikings Are Coming Back” it proudly proclaimed! The …

Gibraltar based flamenco metal heads, Breed 77, recently returned to the fair city of Manchester as part of their acoustic tour to promote their up and coming acoustic EP entitled “Under the Skin”. Joined by the ultimate The Mariana Hollow, two local supports signed to the mighty Rocksector Records and …