Sunday, 14 December 2025

A View From The Back Of The Room: Chelsea Grin (Lee Burnell)

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Chelsea Grin, Signs Of The Swarm & Mugshot, Electric Bristol, 05.12.25 There’s nothing quite like venturing over the bridge on a dark an...
Saturday, 13 December 2025

A View From The Back Of The Room: The Commoners (Nat Sabbath)

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The Commoners & Candar at KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton 04.12.25 There’s something wonderfully unpretentious about a cold December nigh...
Friday, 12 December 2025

A View From The Back Of The Room: Thrakian (Matt Bladen)

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Thrakian, Dosed & Gnasch, Fuel Rock Club, Cardiff, 04.12.25 A trio of top quality bands playing a local show for only a few pennies? Sig...

A View From The Back Of The Room: Quireboys (Debby Myatt & Tony Gaskin)

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Quireboys, Soho Dukes & Matty James Cassidy, KK's Steel Mill, Wolverhampton, 29.12.25 The final night of this 3 day run of gigs wa...
Thursday, 11 December 2025

Reviews: Windswept, Phantoms Of Future, Doomherre, Madness Blues (Mark Young, Spike, Rich Piva & Matt Bladen)

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Windswept - The Devils Vertep (Season Of Mist) [Mark Young] Bleak, uncompromising amongst others are descriptions that are trotted out with...

Reviews: Sarayasign, Winds Of Neptune, Atavistia, Ophelia's Eye (Cherie Curtis, Rich Piva, Mark Young & Matt Bladen)

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Sarayasign – Shadows Of The Dying Light (Black Lodge Records) [Cherie Curtis] Hailing from Sweden - Sarayasign, brings us 12 melodic, high c...
Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Reviews: Sakis Tolis, Forbidden Seed, Sands Of Eternity, Hope Behind The Hills (Matt Bladen)

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Sakis Tolis – Everything Comes To An End (Self Released) Sakis Tolis is someone who needs no introduction here, the co-founder and leader ...

Reviews: Pintglass, Various Artists, Black Magic Tree, The Vice (Matt Bladen & Rich Piva)

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Pintglass - Pintglass (Self Released) [Matt Bladen] If Danny Dyer loved beatdown driven hardcore then he'd have probably formed Pintglas...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

A View From The Back Of The Room: Ugly kid Joe (Debby Myatt & Tony Gaskin)

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Ugly Kid Joe, Scarlet Rebels & Muddibrooke, KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhmapton, 28.11.25 Day 2 of our 3 gig run saw us head back to the Blac...

Reviews: Believe In Nothing, Magnetic Morning, Stellvris, Stryper (Matt Bladen & Rich Piva)

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Believe In Nothing - Rot (Church Road Records) [Matt Bladen] Plenty of albums are heavy, very few are suffocating, Rot from Eastbourne base...