live review: lacuna coil and nonpoint. the stylus, leeds. 25/11/2025
There are nights when a venue feels restless before anything even happens, humming with a kind of low-voltage anticipation that seeps into the walls. Leeds Stylus had that charge the moment the first bodies filtered through the doors, the kind of energy that a bill comprising of Nonpoint and Lacuna Coil can conjure. With the …
live review: levellers and grace petrie. manchester academy 16/11/2025
Some gigs feel like routine stops on a tour. Others feel like communal events with their own emotional gravity. Tonight falls undeniably into the second category. Long before the first chord, you could sense the anticipation in the Academy: a mix of political passion, nostalgia, and genuine excitement that has always followed the Levellers, now …
live review: volbeat, bush and witch fever. nottingham arena 05/11/2025
While fireworks exploded across Nottingham’s skyline, inside the Motorpoint Arena a different kind of spark was flying. On a cold, clear 5th of November, Danish Rock heavyweights Volbeat brought their UK arena tour to town, supported by Bush and Witch Fever, a line-up that promised range, power and unpredictability. What followed was nearly four hours …
more names added to the 2026 incineration festival line up
Incineration Festival adds even more names to the already brutal 2026 line up From the scorched earth of Texas, Tribal Gaze brings primal death metal to London, England in May 2026, opening the Roundhouse at Incineration Festival as part of their first ever appearance on British soil. From the murkiest and most despicable of depths, Dragged …
fortress festival 2026 adds its last name to the stacked bill
Fortress Festival are honoured to welcome to the return of Fluisteraars to their line up after their genuine and mind-bending performance inside the Ocean Room back in 2024. Next year the band will take their rightful place inside the Grand Hall with an extended and exclusive 60 minute performance. “The mysticism woven into their region …
live review: arch enemy, amorphis, eluveitie and gatecreeper. manchester apollo 31/10/2025
Halloween and extreme music have always shared a symbiotic relationship, both trade in drama, darkness, and a sense of the theatrical. On this particular Friday night in Manchester, that union felt gloriously complete. Outside the Apollo a brisk autumn wind carried the scent of rain and face-painted fans in black coats and band shirts snaked …
live review: killswitch engage, hatebreed, fit for an autopsy, decapitated. leeds academy 13/10/2025
Tonight was the turn of Leeds to get an injection of brutality in the city and this time it was the turn of Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, Fit For An Autopsy and Decapitated, and they absolutely crushed the Academy to its core. So the night started off with some Polish technical Death Metal and the masters …
incineration festival 2026 adds another name
American Death Metal band Of Feather And Bone joins their ever darkening lineup, bringing raw and bludgeoning Death to the Underworld Stage You can still grab tickets to the festival here www.incinerationfest.com/tickets
live review: thrash of the titans tour 2026, testament, obituary, destruction, nervosa. manchester academy 10/10/2025
Tonight in Manchester we were witness to something pretty darn special because tonight was the night that the Thrash of the Titans package had steamrolled into town and it was epic beyond belief on all levels. First up on the brutal package were Nervosa and they absolutely crushed the venue with their brief opening slot. …
live review: paradise lost, messa, high parasite. new century hall, manchester. 09/10/2025
With the autumnal evenings elongating at a rapid rate now I made my way across the Pennines for an evening of Gothic inspired Doom Metal courtesy of one of West Yorkshires most successful exports, the death-tinged Doom advocates Paradise Lost. Not long after the doors flung open we were being carved open by the iron …