The Greek godfathers of dark symphonic metal are back with a stunning new album “Modern Primitive” Septicflesh are along with fellow countrymen Rotting Christ the best known metal exports from the wonderful land of Greece. Since their inception in 1990, they have put out 10 full length albums, now fleshed …
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It’s been a helluva long wait for the brand new album For The Fallen by Vice, five years to be exact since unleashing their debut The First Chapter by the Bury based trio but it’s definitely worth waiting for as it’s on a par to be the heaviest I’ve heard …
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Dirty Honey supports Rival Sons – on their 10th Anniversary of Pressure & Time Tour – gig review at Sheffield O2, 28 June ’22 The band on everyone’s lips tonight is Dirty Honey. The LA four-piece formed in 2017 has steadily risen through the rock and roll ranks. With press …
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Glasgow metal warriors Bleed From Within are ready to crush you with new album “Shrine” Straddling the line between Groove metal and Metalcore, Bleed From Within is one of those bands who consistently released better albums. “Shrine” is their sixth full-length release, and it is superb! First off, I had …
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It’s always a joy to review self proclaimed “UK Goth Folk N Rollers” Cadence Noir. Their releases may be as rare as rocking horse shit but they always come up smelling of roses, point proven by their garden of delights that is the just released EP Return Of The Electric …
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It takes some balls to take on a classic song, even more so when a member of that band is out on tour with you as the Starlite Campbell Band are joined by Josh Phillips from Procul Harum on Hammond organ as they put their stamp on ‘A Whiter Shade …
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Welcome back to one of my favourite genres of music, the NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) or as metal guru Geoff Barton recently quoted NENWOBHM (North East New Wave Of British Heavy Metal), such was the plethora of talent coming from that era that include Teeside based band …
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Black Void’s “Antithesis” is a cocktail of Norwegian black metal luminaries… Featuring members of Solefald, Borknagar, and Ihsahn‘s backing band, I was expecting this to be a very tasty musical cocktail. Instead, I got that glass you have to drink in the drinking game where everyone puts a bit of …
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Sheffield metalcore monsters Malevolence step outside of their comfort zone with new album “Malicious Intent” I’ll say it now – I’m not that big a fan of metalcore/deathcore/ whatevercore, so in taking on this Malevolence album to review, I was also stepping outside of my own comfort zone. First off, …
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Commanding Brit metallers COLLAPSE THE SKY have just revealed their ear-splitting new album, White Flags. The engulfing riff merchants have also set loose a brand-new video for the track, Dream Catcher. Watch the video, here – https://youtu.be/8GcCDPUuIs0 . Furthermore, the rampant riff slingers have also just earned a slot at …
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Rejuvenated South Wales thrashers MADICIDE are back with a new line-up and explosive new single and video, Carnivore Incarnate, out now. Hit up the video at – https://youtu.be/fbVVyKBS3Jc . We caught up with the guys to find out below about their background: What is the full band line-up, who sings …
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IRON MAIDEN EXHIBITION AT BLOODSTOCK EIGHT WEEKS TO GO! There are now just 8 weeks to go ’til BLOODSTOCK 2022! HQ is in a frenzy getting the infrastructure together and locking in the last of the slots. There’s still another batch of Metal 2 The Masses bands to come and plenty more info about …
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When one of your favourite bands of your youth turns up at your doorstep to play an intimate gig, it’s never in doubt what the night will bring. I’d been on pins for days leading up to this gig and I was extremely lucky that I was able to witness …
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I’m always looking for new genres of music to keep me on my toes so a big welcome goes to Vanitas, who describe themselves as ‘Cinematic Djent’ with their recently released self titled EP Vanitas. The Birmingham based five piece band played a well attended EP launch party gig on …
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As Ted Nugent once said, “You can’t keep a good dog off your leg”, so welcome back Newcastle Upon Tyne metalheads Tysondog who prove they are best of breed with new studio album Midnight out now via From The Vaults and you would be barking mad not to buy it! …
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Purchase links to the single and band info are here :- https://bfan.link/the-power-of-the-nightstar-1 I https://linktr.ee/dragonlandband Power metal, overblown? Yes! Power metal, preposterous? Yes! Power metal, using every cliche in the book? Yes! Do we love power metal? YES! So welcome back Dragonland! Formed in 1999, Gothenburg, Sweden, they’re back with new …
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Due to the ongoing uncertainty with international travel, Kenny Wayne Shepherd is, unfortunately, unable to make it to UK shores in October. Not to worry though, Planet Rock has recruited incredible new headline bands to headline the three Rocktober dates. Reef will headline Bristol O2 Academy on Saturday 15th October. Wilko Johnson will headline London O2 Shepherd’s …
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The Crescent Community Room in York is the host for tonight’s show with blues rock guitarist Eric Gales, touring his latest album The Crown. With support from Northern Irish blues guitarist Dom Martin. I was pleasantly surprised to walk into a nicely packed room at the Crescent, this Sunday, the …
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I’ll admit to being late for the These Wicked Rivers party, having only seen them twice in a matter of weeks. Once at the Tivoli in Buckley giving Massive Wagons a hard act to follow and last night closing the Rock The Railway four day festival in Nantwich, part of …
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Welcome back husband and wife duo Grace and Adam Bond from When Rivers Meet with new single ‘I Can’t Fight This Feeling’ taken from their sophomore album Saving Grace. They’ve come a long way since their debut album We Fly Free, so much so that they’ve recently received some very …
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