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A cold Saturday night sees me standing outside the sold out O2 ABC venue in Glasgow to witness what was originally the last date on Wilko Johnson’s Farewell tour, but due to demand to see the Canvey Island bluesman one final time

While those with a lot less sense were out ‘drowning the shamrock’ and “celebrating” what laughingly passes for the ‘national saint’s day’ in this corner of the world, by getting as hammered as possible as quickly possible and then hammering the living daylights out of each other in an unprecedented …

UK’s fastest growing festival Ghostfest just got even bigger with eight more bands added to the bill Set to be the UK’s biggest moshfest of the year, Ghostfest is very excited to announce eight more bands to its heavy pitting lineup at Leeds Student’s Union on 29 / 30 June …

An album of extreme Metal to put at the top of your shopping list. Without doubt, Australia’s most extreme purveyors of Metal, unless you can tell me different of course, are back to pummel your audio equipment into submission with an album that is brutally unrelenting in its attack. Following …

You’ve talked a lot about it, and you’ve been waiting for it, today we are glad to confirm the presence of GOJIRA at HELLFEST. The leader of the french scene will crush the main stage 1 on Sunday, June 23rd with his “pachydermic” metal ! GOJIRA will be the 20th …

The lineup for this summer’s edition of the Graspop Metal Meeting is really shaping up now with the addition of another seven bands. The newcomers are Helloween, W.A.S.P., Prong, All That Remains, Tankard, Newsted and Love And Death. A small change to our day schedules: Heaven Shall Burn has been …

Peter Tägtgren‘s Hypocrisy have returned! The stalwart extreme metal band’s twelfth studio release, titled End Of Disclosure, has been released through Nuclear Blast. This album brings fiery new songs to listeners and fans across the globe. Similar to many top-tier rock releases, this melodic extreme metal record has a variety …

French band Karelia was formed in 2002 and released their first album, ‘Usual tragedy’ in 2004. ‘Golden decadence’ is the band’s fourth album and was written after they toured with the Scorpions.  ‘Golden decadence’ was released in France in 2011 on Seasons of Mist, but is now finally getting a …

As their first full UK tour supporting Breed 77 drew to a close, we took the opportunity to speak to imembers of Seven Deadly, managing to catch up with guitarist H Virdee (first speaker) and drummer Rob Hicks, both formerly of Panic Cell, before we were also joined by singer …

As they hit their adopted home town on their headline tour, we caught up with Breed 77’s guitarist Pedro Capparos López on their tour bus, ahead of the show and the relaease of thier new album ‘The Evil Inside’ to talk about everything from using Pledge Music to dirty finger …

Flamenco-metal is what we have come to enjoy tonight, but not before we have taken the time to check out the other three bands on tonight’s bill at The Garage.   First up are Seven Deadly, a melodic thrash metal band. There are some familiar faces of metal in this …

Blues-Rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa is surely one of the hardest working musicians around – with ten solo studio albums in 12 years plus another five solo live albums, four Black Country Communion albums, an album with Beth Hart and appearances on numerous other albums, it’s amazing he has time to …

Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach is releasing his first solo live album as a CD and DVD package.  Entitled “ABachalypse Now” it includes previously unseen footage from 2012’s GrasPop Festival in Belgium, the full Hellfest set from France and a remixed and remastered Club Nokia show from Los Angeles …

Motherland is the new album of the Danish melodic metal band ‘Pretty maids’. The band was formed in 1982. At first I have to say what I really like is the variety in the album. Some songs are more melodically, other songs a little bit harder almost like power metal. …

As I sit here nursing my coffee whilst causally gauzing out at the sunlight illuminated fog which currently shrouds Hollywood in its intimidating mysteriousness I am trying to move mind into gear and stop gauzing  out of the window and towards finding a starting point for this review. This actually …

A collection of photographs of Enslaved’s show in the Limelight 2, Belfast. Support from Winterfylleth and Ancient Ascendant. http://www.facebook.com/enslaved?fref=ts http://www.facebook.com/pages/Winterfylleth/232057463509264?fref=ts http://www.facebook.com/ancientascendant?fref=ts Photographs by Marc Leach Photography – http://www.marcleachphotography.com/.     %%wppa%% %%cover=568%%

End of an era marked by “New Horizons”. Formed back in 2002, Texan quintet Flyleaf recently released their third opus. Following on from 2009’s Memento Mori,   New Horizons features 10 songs of emotionally driven radio friendly metal. The launch of this album has been overshadowed by the announcement that lead …

    Clutch move effortlessly through the gears before parking a big Rock N Roll truck , slap bang on your front lawn. Ten albums into a mighty fine career and Clutch sure as Hell show no signs of waning. In fact this is an album that will surely end …

Tonight’s bill is a typically eclectic one – ranging from classic thrash through dark sludge to ambient black metal – ensuring a healthy crowd drawn from a wide spectrum of Belfast’s metal community, with the added advantage of it being the beginning of (for many) a long holiday weekend helping …

Jeff ‘Oly’ Olson is best known as the original drummer with Trouble, one of the groups which shaped the sound of modern doom metal. Having left the band in 2008, he recently has re-united with his former bandmates, this time contributing keyboards to their forthcoming new album, ‘The Dark Riff’. …