Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Reviews: Exhumed, Mournument, Witchfinder, To Bloom (Reviews By Lee Burnell, Mike JC, Richard Oliver & Matt Bladen)

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Exhumed – To The Dead (Relapse Records) [Lee Burnell] I can’t think of an album that has kicked my ass so much in a short space of time as G...
Monday, 21 November 2022

A View From The Black Of The Room: Saxon & Diamond Head (Live Review By Simon Black)

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Saxon, Diamond Head – St David's Hall, Cardiff, 14.11.22 Much as I love the acoustics in halls like this (designed as they are for theat...

Reviews: Distrubed, The Unguided, We Are Magonia, MMXX (Reviews By James Jackson, David G, Matt Cook, Mike JC)

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Disturbed - Divisive (Reprise Records) [James Jackson] Like many of us old enough to remember, the early 2000’s brought us the Nu Metal genr...
Friday, 18 November 2022

Reviews: Candlemass, Threshold, Freternia, 17 Crash (Reviews By Matt Bladen)

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Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun (Napalm Records) The lords of doom return, almost four decades of slow, heavy, bone shaking metal and Swedish ti...
Wednesday, 16 November 2022

A View From The Back Of The Room: Porcupine Tree (Live Review By Matt Bladen)

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Porcupine Tree, OVO Arena, Wembley, London, 11.11.22 After what had been a 12 year hiatus and for me a 13 year wait to see them live again, ...

Reviews: Turned To Stone Chapter 6, Mister Earthbound, Rage Behind, Live By The Sword [Reviews By Rich Piva & Matt Bladen]

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Captain Caravan/Kaiser - Turned To Stone: Chapter 6 (Ripple Music) [Rich Piva] I know we are getting close to Christmas, but it has come ear...
Tuesday, 15 November 2022

A View From The Back Of The Room: Fozzy, Escape The Fate & Scarlet Rebels (Live Review By Mike Chapman)

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Fozzy, Escape The Fate & Scarlet Rebels, Patti Pavilion, Swansea, 10.11.22 Tonight the Patti Pavilion, the Swansea crowd is ready for a ...

Reviews: Lamentations, Dirt Forge, Despised Icon, Hedra (Ben Baljak, Rich Piva, Lee Burnell & Matt Bladen)

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Lamentations - Passion Of Depression (Willowtip Records) [Ben Baljak] Lamentations are back with their second full-length, following 2016 de...
Monday, 14 November 2022

Reviews: Ring Of Fire, Mantric Momentum, About Us (Reviews By Matt Bladen)

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Ring Of Fire – Gravity (Frontiers Music Srl) Neoclassical metal orginators Ring Of Fire return with their fifth studio album of virtuoso mel...

Reviews: Warkings, Munroe's Thunder, Jordan Red, Blakk Ledd (Reviews By Matt Bladen)

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Warkings - Morgana (Napalm Records) Their second album in as many years by the multi national power metal unit Warnings and this one moves o...