Phil Pountney, Author at Backseat Mafia

live review: chelsea grin, signs of the swarm, mugshot & crown magnetar. leeds project house 03/12/2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Music

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…

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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…

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