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Saxon: Heavy Metal Thunder – the Movie gets its release on the 10th December and charts the bands rise from their home town of Barnsley through to the rock icon status they hold today This is one of the best rock documentaries I have seen. Band members, past and present, …

WATCHET LIVE FESTIVAL, West Somerset’s largest outdoor music event, have announced the first headline acts for its seventh successive year. With their Teddy Boy style and their incredible back catalogue of twenty three Top 40 hits, Showaddywaddy are the perfect band to headline the ‘retro’ Friday night at Watchet Festival. …

The night started with Blurred Vision.  No not from people drinking too much at the nearby Crobar – this is a Canadian band who are on tour in the UK and were last minute replacements for the band that had originally been supposed to open the bill but had to …

I suppose it could be argued that the timing of the release of Geoff Tate’s second solo album is somewhat fateful. What with him being publicly (and embarrassingly so) fired from Queensrӱche earlier this year and the subsequent high profile squabbling which has ensued between the singer and the former …

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 …

  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 …

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, …

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’ …

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 …

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 – …

On 29th November, Hornet played a headline set at the Borderline in London.  Below are some photos of their performance   %%wppa%% %%slide=510%%

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 …

Photos taken at the Soil, Fozzy and Breed77 gig at the Arches in Glasgow on the 30th 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 – …