Music
Tracks: Terrifier – Reanimator
Vancouver thrashers Terrifier have just signed to Test your metal records, and have streamed new single Reanimator, taken from their forthcoming second album ‘Weapons of thrash destruction’. Veterans of tours with the likes of Havok, Destruction, Exmortus, Anvil, 3 Inches of blood and Holy Grail, to name but a few, Terrifier have been building strong …
News: Travis cover Del Amitri cracker for Christmas charity single
Travis plan to make something happen for a good cause with their festive cover of Del Amitri hit ‘Nothing Ever Happens’. The single (available for pre-order download on iTunes today) is a cover of one of Del Amitri’s best-known songs wrapped up in Fran Healy’s distinctive, warm vocals and tied together with sparkling sleigh bells ringing. …
Live: Farro – The Key Club Leeds, 18/11/16
It’s hard to avoid the Paramore subject even after six years, there are still going to be people who are interested in what Josh Farro is doing because they were/still are a fan of Paramore. Even the posters advertising the show in Leeds read “ex-paramore” at the bottom. But you would be mistaken to think …
See: The Veldt release new video for ‘In a quiet room’
Legendary NYC-Raleigh shoegaze quartet The Veldt have released anew video for ‘In a quiet room’, take from their new five track EP, The Shocking Fuzz of your electric fur, released by Manchester’s Leonard Skully label. Produced, at least in part by the similarly legendary A.R.Kane, the EP see the band return from a significant haitus. …
Live Review: Lacuna Coil – Manchester Academy 2 – 16.11.2016
It’s Wednesday evening and Manchester Academy 2 has a look of a mental asylum about it. We are all welcomed to Lacuna Coil’s sanatorium; masked mannequins are hanging from the ceiling and two large metal fences are awaiting the patients to perform around it. The bill this evening is entirely European, and first …
See: Girl Ray share the video for ‘Where Am I Now’
Girl Ray get all nostalgic in the video for new song ‘Where Am I Now’. This north London four-piece – of Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnell, Sophie Moss and Emily Craste – play wistful indie-pop that is ridiculously easy to fall for, as I did when I saw them support the equally breezy-sounding Tuff Love last year. …
See: Killswitch Engage release New Video For Cut Me Loose
Killswitch Engage kick off their UK tour this week in support of Bullet For My Valentine- so in anticipation of this, they’ve premiered their new video for Cut Me Loose- taken from their latest album Incarnate. You can see the video here; flicking between the affecting, fragmented and rewound scenes of a man on fire, …
News: Black Stone Cherry Release Lyric Video In Time For UK Tour
Black Stone Cherry are heading back to the UK after their insane arena tour earlier this year. And to celebrate their tour they’ve released a lyric video for Shakin’ My Cage taken from their new album ‘Kentucky’. Instead of playing arenas again like on the Carnival Of Madness tour with Halestorm and Shinedown, they’ve opted …
Album Review: Janet Devlin – Little Lights
X-Factor contestants are not generally known for long-lasting and credible careers. But every now and then one slips through the net. Rebecca Ferguson is still doing the business. Little Mix are topping charts all over the place, and of course One Direction took over the world. 2011 contestant Janet Devlin didn’t win the show. In …
Say Psych: Best Live Albums of 2016
OK here’s the thing. I’ve never been a massive fan of live albums. I love going to gigs and I love listening to records, but records of gigs have never particularly been my bag. Until this year that is, because there have been a series of live releases this year that have just blown me …