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British band, The Blue screen of death formed in 2006 by members united by their love of computer games and action movies.  The band started with a strong stoner rock influence but have gradually moved away from this since then.  Their self titled debut mini-album was recorded at the Barbican …

Minneapolis based Vaudeville are an alternative rock band who aim to combine the energy of raw rock and roll with the tightness and diversity of electronic music.  “Vendetta” is the abnd’s second album. With an introduction like that you’re probably expecting rock with some fairly prominent electronic sounds.  Well sorry …

Fivefold formed in St Louis, and as the name gives away, are a five piece band.  They formed in 2007 and since then have built a strong fanbase in the St Louis area, and have supported bands including Buckcherry, The Offspring and Redlight King. A few brief comments on some …

Dallas are a melodic hard rock band from the San Francisco bay area in the US.  The band was formed in 2010 and “Over their edge” is their debut EP.  Since recording the EP they’ve been playing plenty of gigs to perfect their live sound, and their gigs include opening …

Dianoya are a Polish band from Warsaw who formed in 2008.  Their debut album “Obscurity divine” was released in Poland in 2010.  Two years later they have released their second album, “Lidocaine” which has been given a wider release, across Europe and the US. In recent years there has been …

Captain Zorx were formed from the ashes of an underground Ska band in Berlin in 2009, and describe themselves as playing “Disco metal from outer space”.  “Maps of the ancient sea kings” is the band’s third album. The album opens with “Roter Alarm (red alert)”. It’s quite a strange track …

Band of frequencies describe themselves as “progressive surf roots rockers”.  Coming from Australia’s sunshine coast, the surf link is obvious, and the band have also toured California supporting the non-profit organisation Surfers for Cetaceans and played surfing events in Hawaii. The music is rock, but with lots of other musical …

The Illusions Of Grandeur, the 4th full length studio album from Gothenburg based melodic death metallers Evocation features a drum sound i’ve not heard since John Boecklin’s performance on Devildriver’s  album The Last Kind Words! As good as the rest of the band are, Evocation’s drummer Janne K.Boden puts in …

Seeing as it’s Christmas Eve I thought you lot deserved a nice round of…………………….. free downloads!!! Here is a few of the latest free downloads that we’ve featured on PM over the last few weeks as well as the awesome free download from the boys in Beholder. Hope you all …

After some 15-plus years very firmly at the top of the local tree, NI death grinders Condemned shocked many fans a little earlier this year when they announced their decision to call it a day. The reason was not the usual ‘internal divisions’ or ‘musical differences’ bullshit that many acts …

The stars pay homage to 87-year-old Blues guitar legend Riley B.King in this thought provoking biographical documentary, which features Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Bonnie Raitt, Bobby Bland and Buddy Guy among others. Mr Cool himself Morgan Freeman, does the voiceover as we’re we are taken on an extraordinary journey beginning …

For anybody growing up in the early 80’s, there were certain ‘video nasty’s’ that people had claimed to have seen, yet never had, owing to the outright ban by the British Board Of Film Censorship. These included such films as ‘I Spit On Your Grave’, Driller Killer’ and ‘The Texas …

The German six piece show how to combine classic Death Metal with cutting edge riffs.   From the land formerly known as East Germany and now known as….Eastern Germany come Led Astray with their second full length release and their first since signing with Massacre Records. ’Decades Of Addiction’ will …

Enter Shikari and Cancer Bats photos, Roundhouse, London 17th Dec 2012

Arriving at the Roundhouse I felt rather old – being at least twice the age of most the schoolkids queuing up outside the venue.  Enter Shikari certainly don’t seem to attract many people over the age of 16 if this crowd was anything to go by.  The night started with …

Asylum Pyre serve up an excellent album of Melodic / Symphonic Metal.   Formed in France in 2006 ‘Fifty Years Later’ represents Asylum Pyre’s second full length album following on from their debut ‘Natural Instinct’. Sitting very comfortably in the Melodic Symphonic camp the band have produced a thoroughly engaging …

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The night started off with Hounds.  Dear god, what idiot thought they’d be a good band to support Stone Sour?  I can only assume they paid to get on the tour, as they were so unsuited musically it was shocking.  Normally when a band is either awful or just the …

I must admit, it came as somewhat of a surprise:  flicking through the PM archive, yours truly discovered that, despite the amount of coverage we have given to Plymouth groove metallers Huron over the past 12 months or so, we’ve actually been somewhat remiss in failing to cast our critical …