News: Enslaved announce new album details
Norwegian extreme metal outfit Enslaved have announced details of their 13th studio album. The album will be entitled In Times, and will feature hand painted art work from Truls Espedal- someone who the band have long-term collaboration connections with, and ‘sixth Enslaved member’. The band’s guitarist and composer, Ivar Bjørnson, describes the new material as …
LIVE: The Defiled, Avatar and Killus, The Key Club Leeds
It’s time for another show that was moved from the now deceased venue of the Cockpit to the Key Club and tonight is a celebration of all things European as Leeds is treated to a night of bands hailing from the UK and Sweden with support in the form of a Spanish band.Support band Killus …
Meet: Interview with Johannes Eckerström of Avatar
Take one look at Avatar and it’s clear they’re here to make a statement and set themselves apart from the rest of the crowd. Their recent co-headline tour with the Defiled brought them out in front of hundreds of new faces every day- a challenge they took on just as fiercely as opening for Avenged …
News: Of Mice & Men announce UK and EU tour for 2015
If bands who have managed to battle their way through the barrage of metalcore bands in their scene to come out as some of this generation’s rising stars is your thing- then Of Mice & Men may just be to your liking! If they already are your thing, and/or they interest you in any way, …
Meet: We interview Alicewell, new Swedish kids on the Rock block
Meet Alicewell; a new band from Sweden. Even though this is the case, take one listen to them and they sound as if they could have stepped straight off the UK rock scene. Alicewell are an unsigned band, but despite this, they have recently released their debut album Wounds, and just finished a tour of …
Live Review: The Blackout / Yashin / When We Were Wolves – Corporation, Sheffield 6.11.2014
It’s a Thursday night in Sheffield, and the aptly named When We Were Wolves are getting things off to an explosive start on the Blackout’s Wolves tour. Hailing from Wales, the same as tonight’s headliners, these openers are metalcore through and through, and they put the crowd through the wringer complete with an excess of …
Track: Marilyn Manson returns with new music – Third Day Of A Seven Day Binge
It’s been two and a half years since there were stirrings that sounded like new music from camp Manson. 2012’s Born Villain received primarily positive reviews, however over recent years, fans (or ex-fans) and critics alike were beginning to question if Marilyn Manson had lost his shock-factor. We’re talking about an artist who was blamed …
MEET: We speak to Gavin from Lonely The Brave about debut album The Days War, touring, festivals, and more
Lonely The Brave just released their debut album The Days War. Critics in both the rock world and in more mainstream terms have had nothing but good things to say about them. They are people who this time last year, all had everyday full time jobs, and now they are selling out dates on a …
LIVE: Lonely The Brave / Marmozets / Allusondrugs- Corporation, Sheffield 13.10.2014
What could be better to blow away the Monday blues than three great up-and-coming bands in a tiny little room in Sheffield? Well, nothing would be the answer to that. Drenched in sweat and kicking Monday into touch, Allusondrugs, Lonely The Brave and Marmozets prove why they deserve to be selling out venues so early …
News: Slipknot Announce UK Tour In January
As the tour name itself states, Prepare For Hell… because Slipknot are coming to the UK in January! On their first UK tour since that in support of their 2008 album, All Hope Is Gone, Slipknot will head out across not only England, Scotland and Wales, but Ireland as well. This tour is the bands …