Blynd, pre-Bloodstock festival interview

Blynd are set to bombard the New Blood Stage on Sunday 12th at this year’s Bloodstock. We catch up with the guys to find out more about them, what they are about, the festival and what you lucky Bloodstock go-er’s can expect from them! Can you give the readers a …

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Sa-Da-Ko, pre-Bloodstock festival interview

 Sa-Da-Ko are set to  storm the New Blood Stage on Sunday 12th at this year’s Bloodstock. We catch up with the guys to find out more about them, what they are about, the festival and what you lucky Bloodstock go-er’s can expect from them! Can you give the readers a …

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Scare Tactics, pre-Bloodstock festival interview

Scare Tactics are set to slay the New Blood Stage on Friday 10th at this year’s Bloodstock. We catch up with the guys to find out more about them, what their are about, the festival and what you lucky Bloodstock go-er’s will see! Can you give the readers a quick introduction …

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Baroness – Yellow & Green (CD)

It has transpired through the years that a band’s breakthrough album is often their third. Number of the Beast, Reign in Blood, Master of Puppets – I could go on. And now, American rockers Baroness have released THEIR third album, ‘Yellow & Green’, an album that can, and in my …

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Trucker Diablo- The Devil Rhythm CD review

Opening for the Foo Fighters and getting Ricky Warwick; of Thin Lizzy fame, to sing one of your songs with you is all in a day’s work for Northern Irelander’s Trucker Diablo – who have just released their new album, entitled The Devil Rhythm. Ram jammed full of high octane, …

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Memories Of A Dead Man – ‘V.I.T.R.I.O.L.’

Now and again, an album comes along that genuinely surprises you. Having read the press blurb that accompanied this sophomore release from French six-piece MOADM, I was fully expecting to write them off as another bunch of Meshuggah wannabes. Well, how pleasantly surprised I was with what I actually discovered, …

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HURON, pre-Bloodstock festival interview

HURON are set to destroy the New Blood Stage on Sunday 13th at this years Bloodstock. We catch up with the Neil to find out more about them, what their are about the festival and what you lucky Bloodstock go-er’s can expect when they take to the stgae! If you …

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Interview with Entropy

At the start of July I wrapped my ears around Entropy‘s third album, E3, and enjoyed it thoroughly as you can read from here.  Frontman Ger Schreinert took the time out recently to talk to us about why now was the right time for their third album and return. Before kicking …

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SOS Festival 2012 – Day 1 Review

Setting off today’s shindig with a bang; Chorley’s own Fire In the Empire [8/10] hit the stage with full force, bathing the few followers who turned out to seen them in an onslaught of melodic, yet furious thrash metal. With a God like stage presence and songs that could topple …

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Doomed, pre-Bloodstock festival interview

Doomed are set to dominate the New Blood Stage on Saturday 11th at this year’s Bloodstock! We catch up with Mraz to find out more about them, what their are about the festival and what you lucky Bloodstock go-er’s can expect from them! Can you give the readers a quick introduction …

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Ministry – Mandela Hall, Belfast 17 July 2012

The irony was not lost on many present. It was two days short of being exactly four years since industrial metal titans Ministry had played what frontman Al Jourgensen had insisted would be the band’s “last ever” live show – just 100 miles down the road in the Irish capital …

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