We grabbed a chat with the most excellent Illdisposed to talk about their current album, the state of the music industry in these troubled economic times, and the bands future plans. Firstly, many thanks for taking time to talk to us. Illdisposed can trace their roots back way back to …
Read More »CIRCLE OF REASON – “A Favour For A Stranger”
Formed in 2009 this four piece are set to turn a few heads with this amazingly catchy and well crafted three track E.P. Described as Alternative/Prog Rock, the sound leans towards a mix of Queens Of The Stone Age meets Funeral For A Friend who then hook up with …
Read More »SOiL and Fozzy with Breed77 and Villains – The Arches Glasgow, 30th Nov 2012
The Arches in Glasgow is not renowned as a venue for metal bands to play. Its very design, part of the old railway arches under Glasgow Central Station, means playing anything loud tends to bounce from one end to the other and can make things sound very muddy. Thankfully however, …
Read More »Kobra and the Lotus at HRH 6 – 02/12/12
After their set on Sunday I caught up with the lovely Kobra from Kobra and the Lotus, who are currently touring with Buckcherry. Their self-titled debut album is available to buiy on iTunes and Amazon. Don’t forget to also check out their latest video ’50 Shades Of Evil’ …
Read More »Soil interview with Adam Zadel, Glasgow 30/11/12
Adam Zadel of US rockers SOiL took time out when they came to Glasgow with Fozzy and Breed77 to chat to us about the tour and how progress on the new album is coming along. SOiL have launched an interactive pre-sale campaign on Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soil/soil) to enable fans to participate …
Read More »Fozzy interview with Chris Jericho, Glasgow 30/11/12
Chris Jericho of US rockers FOZZY took time out when they came to Glasgow with SOiL and Breed77 to chat to us about the tour and how life is treating the form WWE wrestler. To see photos taken at the gig click here [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLl8uhImtDk&w=560&h=315] FOZZY are: Chris Jericho – …
Read More »Hornet – Borderline, London – 29th November 2012
On 29th November, Hornet played a headline set at the Borderline in London. Below are some photos of their performance %%wppa%% %%slide=510%%
Read More »Les-Fest 2013 more bands announced!
Hot on the heals of announcement number 2 we are pleased to bring you our 3rd instalment of announcements and we are really pulling out the stops to make this the best award winning Rock and Metal Festival, Scotland has ever seen. Sparing no expense we fly across the North …
Read More »Soil, Fozzy and Breed77 photos, Arches, Glasgow 30/11/12
Photos taken at the Soil, Fozzy and Breed77 gig at the Arches in Glasgow on the 30th November 2012
Read More »The Levellers, Citizen Fish & Gaz Brookfield – Shepherds Bush Empire, London – 24th November 2012
The night started with Gaz Brookfield, a singer songwriter who performs by himself with an acoustic guitar. Despite being on early the venue was already busy, so there was a large crowd to watch his set. His folk sound went down well with the crowd, and a song about …
Read More »Absolva @ Voodoo, Belfast – Friday November 30th
It confounds me. No, it really annoys me. Actually, it makes me really fucking angry. OK, I know there’s a recession on and all that, but for four damn fine bands – including one who have travelled since the wee small hours to play the gig – to play to …
Read More »Kowloon Walled City – Container Ships
This oddly name quartet hail from San Francisco take their name from a densely populated, largely ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, Hong Kong; known for its brothels, casinos and opium dens, which was torn down in the early 90’s. With that in mind you can be assured that the music produced …
Read More »Aeon – Aeons Black
Sweden’s Aeon (one of eight bands with the same name list in that essential resource for any serious metal journalist, or fan for that matter, the Encyclopaedia Metallum) count no less than the mighty Alex ‘Corpsegrinder’ Webster among their legion fans. And it’s not hard to see why on ‘Aeons …
Read More »Avatar – Black Waltz
Black Waltz, is the 4th album by Swedish melodic death metal band Avatar. “Black Waltz” was released in Europe on November 19th via Gain/Sony Music. The album itself really shows off the different sides of how the bands’ musical talents. 3 specific songs really caught my attention; title track Black …
Read More »Testament Interview with Alex Skolnick, Glasgow, Nov 2012
Testament came to Glasgow earlier in the week and absolutely destroyed it with a monstrous set as you can read from our review right here. Beforehand we had the opportunity to sit down with one of the band’s guitar maestros, Alex Skolnick, to discuss the tour and life in general. …
Read More »Malefice Interview – Glasgow Garage, 27th Nov 2012
Ben Symons and Dale Butler of British metallers Malefice took time out when they came to Glasgow with Testament to chat to us about the tour and what they’ve been up to since their move to Transcend Music this year. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQR3d34EfU&w=560&h=315] MALEFICE are: Dale Butler – Vocals Ben Symons – Guitar Andrew Wilson – …
Read More »Xerath Interview – Glasgow Garage, 27th Nov 2012
Owain Williams and Richard Thomson of British orchestral groove metallers Xerath took time out when they came to Glasgow with Testament to chat to us about the tour and how they go about bringing their unique sound to the live shows [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyNXExi807I&w=560&h=315] XERATH are: Richard Thomson – Vocals Owain Williams – Guitar Christopher Clark …
Read More »Jettblack’s Will Stapleton talks about ‘War Of The Worlds’
With High Wycombe sleaze rockers Jettblack having recently finished their first UK headlining tour, in support of their sophomore ‘Raining Rock’ album, vocalist Will Stapleton is not about to take things easy… Instead, he has taken to the stage again – but in a completely different role, as ‘The Voice …
Read More »Kerion – Cloudriders Pt 1
Kerion are a French symphonic metal band formed in 2002 from the band Kerlian who were an instrumental Prog metal band. When singer Flora joined they decided to create a new group rather than just continue under the old name with a very different sound. They released two demos (“Conspiracy …
Read More »Sonja Perenda – Time has come
Sonja Perenda is a classically trained singer from Austria. As well as being a singer she’s a qualified lawyer and has played charity concerts to the homeless and in prisons across Austria and Germany. She’s also performed to UN soldiers in Kosovo and Syria, toured Europe and the middle East, …
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