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Reckless Love – Spirit

Reckless Love are a Finnish Glam Rock band who these days do their own music and songs, after initially starting out as Reckless Life, a Guns N’ Roses tribute. Olli Herman, their very good-looking (he’s like the male equivalent of Pamela Anderson) frontman joined Crashdiet for a time before concentrating …

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The Answer – New Horizon

Northern Ireland will always bring a big smile to my face. Not only as it’s my homeland, but there are a hell of a lot of great bands with huge energy, a lot of passion, spirit and soul throughout. A lot of Northern Irish bands seem to get overlooked somehow …

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The Graveltones – Don’t Wait Down

I first saw The Graveltones performing live supporting the band Stonerider, and then with Rival Sons a few times earlier this year. What impressed me about their live performances is the amount of noise and rhythmic sounds that the two Aussie band members Jimmy O and Mikey Sorbello produced as …

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For Ruin – ‘Mortal’ EP

For Ruin - Mortal Artwork

Cork’s For Ruin certainly believe in taking their time about things… this EP has been lying around, in one shape or form, for the guts of two years, with a video for the nominal title track having first surfaced on YouTube in the autumn of 2011.  Now, with the band …

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Michael Monroe – Horns And Halos

Michael Monroe is back with his follow up to 2011’s wonderful “Sensory Overload” and despite there is no Ginger Wildheart this time around  we do have the more than capable Dregen from Backyard Babies trading licks with Steve Conte in the guitar duty department on “Horns And Halos”. Opening with …

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Bloodstock Open Air 2013 – An insight

Bloodstock Open Air 2013 marks the 6th consecutive time that I have personally attended the festival and over these years I’ve seen the festival change in many ways, good and bad. In the past the cleanliness of the Bloodstock toilets has ranked as the worst festival toilets that I have …

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Bloodstock Open Air 2013 Review- Friday 9th August

After yesterday’s heat I was hoping for a cooler start to the second day (first for the Friday arrivals), however, I had no such luck. Another blazing hot start to the day. Today’s breakfast band for me consisted of some “Great British heavy fucking metal” in the form of Absolva. …

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Bloodstock Open Air 2013 Review – Thursday 8th August

Today was the day that we’d all been waiting for. The first day of the highly anticipated bloodstock open air 2013. Each year the eagerly awaiting crowd starts congregating at the gates earlier and earlier demanding entry but the security hold their ground until the specified 12pm opening time. An …

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Piston – Playin With Fire EP

It’s great hearing about bands because they follow you on Twitter or Facebook and throw their material at you. You seem sceptical at first but it soon becomes apparent that some bands really do have something special, and that’s what I discovered with Piston. I came across this Midlands 5 …

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Children of Bodom – Halo of Blood

Children of Bodom - Halo of Blood

“Halo of Blood” is the 8th studio album by Finnish melodic death metallers, Children of Bodom. ‘Waste of Skin’ starts the newly released album with melody, catchy guitar work, typical chugging Children of Bodom riffs and signature keyboards. Before long the entrance of title track ‘Halo of Blood’ brings a …

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Tangerine Dream and Brian May Starmus – Sonic Universe

June 2011 saw the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first spaceflight and to help celebrate this event one of the most intriguing musical collaborations happened in Tenerife at the Starmus festival with Brian May of Queen fame performing live with electronic masters Tangerine Dream. Kicking of the CD in style …

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Kasper Rosa – ‘Icebreaker’

It may seem somewhat of anomaly, in these days of internet downloads, for a band to release a good old-fashioned ‘Double A Side’ – especially when said release is only be made available in digital format and not pressed to ye olde plastic.  But, that’s what Belfast progressive post-rock quartet …

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Biffy Clyro – Opposites

It seems that world-domination wasn’t quite enough for Biffy Clyro. Following the mainstream success of Only Revolutions a few years ago, plus their already-popular Puzzle album, the band has recently seen their success go from strength to strength in a very short space of time, and before they knew it, Biffy Clyro …

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Hatebreed – The Divinity of Purpose

Well here we are barely three weeks into 2013 and I’ve already got a stunner of an album to review. Storming out of Bridgeport, Connecticut come possibly metals hardest working band Hatebreed, with their latest offering  The Divinity of Purpose.  This will be the bands 6th studio album which front …

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