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Phil Pountney

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album review: alter bridge ‘alter bridge’

  • January 9, 2026
  • Phil Pountney
Alter Bridge’s self-titled eighth studio album feels deliberately chosen, not just as a name but as a mission statement. More than two decades into their career, Myles Kennedy, Mark Tremonti,…
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album review: senser ‘sonic dissidence’

  • January 6, 2026
  • Phil Pountney
Senser’s ‘Sonic Dissidence‘ arrives not as a cautious reintroduction, but as a bold and confident reaffirmation of everything the band represent. After more than a decade without a full-length album,…
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live review: chelsea grin, signs of the swarm, mugshot & crown magnetar. leeds project house 03/12/2025

  • December 7, 2025
  • Phil Pountney
There are nights when Leeds seems to thrum with a very specific electricity, when the air itself feels preloaded with expectation, vibrating long before the first note hits. On this…
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live review: lacuna coil and nonpoint. the stylus, leeds. 25/11/2025

  • November 28, 2025
  • Phil Pountney
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…
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live review: levellers and grace petrie. manchester academy 16/11/2025

  • November 19, 2025
  • Phil Pountney
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…
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live review: volbeat, bush and witch fever. nottingham arena 05/11/2025

  • November 11, 2025
  • Phil Pountney
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…
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more names added to the 2026 incineration festival line up

  • November 5, 2025
  • Phil Pountney
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,…
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fortress festival 2026 adds its last name to the stacked bill

  • November 5, 2025
  • Phil Pountney
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…
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live review: arch enemy, amorphis, eluveitie and gatecreeper. manchester apollo 31/10/2025

  • November 5, 2025
  • Phil Pountney
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…
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live review: killswitch engage, hatebreed, fit for an autopsy, decapitated. leeds academy 13/10/2025

  • October 17, 2025
  • Phil Pountney
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…
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