Rock/ Metal live review
Gallery and Set-lists: Paradise Lost / Urne – The Academy, Dublin 16.09.2023
At a sold out Academy in Dublin, Paradise Lost, the English gothic metal act – considered to be the pioneers of the death-doom genre and who are cited to have largely influenced many others in the goth metel scene, played a storming show from their enviable cannon of songs. Opening on the night were London hardcore/doom boys …
Live Gallery: Underoath – Roseland Theater – Portland, Oregon – 23.03.2023
By Anthony Moore Underoath are out on tour with Periphery and Loathe in support of their most recent album Voyeurist. Backseat Mafia’s Anthony Moore was in attendance at The Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon to get some photos. Underoath’s most recent album Voyeurist currently available on all major streaming platforms. Tickets for upcoming shows are …
Live Review: Volbeat / Skindred / Napalm Death – 3Arena, Dublin 12.12.2022
Words: Letty Sharp // Photos: Ian Mc Donnell Danish metal band Volbeat came to Ireland as part of their Servants Of The Road tour, the band last came here in 2019 when they played the 3Olympia.They brought along noise/grindcore band Napalm Death and reggae fusion metal band Skindred this time. Napalm Death We’re first up …
Live Review: The European Siege 2022, Behemoth / Arch Enemy + Guests – 3Olympia, Dublin 27,09,2022
The European Siege tour 2022 besieged Dublin’s 3Olympia bringing with it some of the best in the metal scene, four acts in total took to the stage with those being Behemoth / Arch Enemy with guest Carcass and Unto Others. First of the guest to take the stage were a band I was sorry I …
Live Review: Vukovi – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 1st June 2016
Scottish alternative rock group Vukovi ventured on their first ‘grown-up’ tour last week, playing shows in Leeds, Birmingham, and Chester before concluding in London for the mammoth Camden Rocks festival. I was invited to Leeds with the intention of interviewing the group but I found merely hanging out with them provided much more insight into …
Live Review: Non Plus Ultra at Cafe Oto, 05/02/16
Our culture is obsessed with looking at the past. If culture had a body, it would be contorted, bending over its own limbs, straining to catch a glimpse, through the crevices of its wrinkled, obese flesh, of the jagged traces it had left behind. This behaviour is completely understandable. Not only is modern life rubbish, …
Live Review: A Day To Remember – Sheffield O2 Academy
Confetti, a guy in a spider-man outfit firing t-shirts into the crowd and toilet paper. These are just a few of the things that A Day To Remember bring along to their shows for the fans to enjoy. Add to that a crowd that has been one of the most responsive I’ve seen at a …