News: fortress festival 2025 is officially sold out
FORTRESS FESTIVAL 2025 Officially SOLD OUT! Among the headliners of the biggest black metal event in the UK will be Agalloch with an exclusive 2025 European show Still to be…
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Phil Pountney
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album review: benmont tench: the melancholy season.
This is an album of absolute luxury. Each track on ‘The Melancholy Season’ is decadent and opulent, the vocals from Tench are soothing and velvety throughout while the strings that…
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album review: the wildhearts – satanic rites of the wildhearts
The Wildhearts are back with an absolute barnstormer of an album, ‘The Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts’, and it is a belter. The album has it all and progresses through…
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live review: the wildhearts, jim jones allstars, dirt box disco. the leadmill, sheffield. 07/03/2025
Unfortunately due to an epic equipment failure I came away from tonight’s gig without any salvageable shots but, as the old saying goes, the show must go on. So sit…
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slayer announce two huge uk shows for the summer
SLAYER will return to the U.K. after six years, performing their biggest headline shows ever in the country with special guests Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon, Hatebreed and Neckbreakker. These shows…
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live review: brand of sacrifice, fit for a king, motionless in white. o2 victoria, manchester. 21/02/2025
Tonight, the Transatlantic world of Core had been brought to the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester and it well and truly shook the building and all that stood within its…
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bloodstock announce a new addition to their arsenal, bloodstock’s winter gathering
ANNOUNCING…. BLOODSTOCK’S WINTER GATHERING!! Be part of BLOODSTOCK history!! Will you be one of the very first to bear witness to BLOODSTOCK’S WINTER GATHERING this December?! This brand new, one-day…
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black sabbath to play one last gig and they will be joined by an all star line up for a one day charity festival
Ozzy Osbourne will be joining Black Sabbath for one last time and it will see the first time that the original Black Sabbath line up has been together in 20…
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live review: the poisoned ascendancy tour 2025. bullet for my valentine, trivium, orbit culture. co-op live arena, manchester. 30/01/2025
A double celebration of landmark albums was on the cards in Manchester tonight and carving open the evening with a massive Swedish sledgehammer was the unequivocally crushing Orbit Culture and…
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live review: paganfest – o2 victoria warehouse, manchester. 18/01/2025
It’s always going to be a fun evening when the Pagans and Pirates are in town and when Paganfest rolled into Manchester it was no different. Elvenking opened the preceding’s…
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