rock/metal live review
Live Review: Evil Blizzard. Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 04-07-2015
Saturday night, the place is packed and it’s as hot as Hell. Not only is it hot as Hell, but as the stage becomes bathed in blood red lights five figures enter and at a glance you could quite easily believe that someone had spiked your drink and you were tripping in Hell. All around …
Live Review: Long Division 2015 – Wakefield 12th – 14th June
Long Division, a three day urban festival, spread over eight venues all within spitting distance of each other. Over 60 bands on offer and with the added bonus of it been just down the road in the city where I grew up, and still live. What started out five years ago as a full on …
Live: Bearded Theory Festival 21-24.5.15
Catton Park, South Derbyshire, last time I was here I spent 24 hours sweating and panting my way around the park on a mountain bike, supposedly for fun. This time we are here for the Bearded Theory Festival and I was swapping the energy drinks, pasta and anti-chaffing cream, for good beer and great music, …
Live: Fearless Vampire Killers + support, Sound Control, Manchester, 12.05.2015
In the basement of Manchester’s Sound Control tonight are four bands- two of which are looking satisfyingly macabre, all four of which are providing an undeniably great soundtrack of alternative rock and metal to this chilly Tuesday eve. Off to a ground-shaking start are local band, the Dead XIII- who literally look like they just …
Live Review: Lower Than Atlantis / We Are The Ocean / PVRIS – Manchester Academy 2, 14.04.2015
Openers Pvris brought a barrage of synth infected pop-rock tracks from their debut album White Noise (2014). Ironically starting out with Smoke, which quite literally was the only thing that clouded over the bands performance. “Can you cut the smoke? We’re not that cool” vocalist Lyndsey Gunnulfsen stated however the intensity of the smoke didn’t …
Live Review: Pierce The Veil, Sleeping With Sirens, Issues – Leeds O2 Academy, 3.4.15
Both Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens boast enthusiastic fanbases to say the least, the tour was sold out months in advance, tickets were even being sold for more than four times the amount of their original price in the few weeks leading up to the shows and the queue for the show in …
Live Review: Young Guns, Liverpool Arts Club, 6.4.15
On the final date of this leg of the Young Guns headline tour, Blitz Kids say their goodbyes as the main and only support band. Their set is a well-chosen collaboration of the biggest choruses in their back catalogue- and being a band who know how to write a big chorus, they have A LOT. …
Live Review: Halestorm / Nothing More / Wilson – O2 Academy Leeds 05.03.2015
Wilson would definitely win the award for the oddest yet greatest entrance of the night. Vocalist Chad Nicefield enters the staged dressed as an oversized toy solider wielding a marching band bass drum with “Fuckery” taped across the front, simultaneously leaving the audience confused and intrigued. Chad’s curdling vocals, reminiscent of a mixture between Jason …
Live Review: In This Moment – Leeds Beckett University – 01.03.2015
Looking like lost characters from the Mass Effect videogame franchise, openers Starset intertwine rock heavy riffs with hard hitting electronics. The roaring choruses of Carnivore and My Demons prove the band are much more than just looking the part. At the head of the stage, vocalist Dustin Bates is pushing the boundaries of future technology using what can only …
Live Review: Glamour Of The Kill – Sound Control, Manchester 26.02.2015
There’s no question that there should be more people out tonight at Manchester’s Sound Control, supporting Glamour Of The Kill as one of the most underrated yet interesting bands on the UK’s metal and alternative scene at the moment. Unfortunately, the people of Manchester and the surrounding area don’t seem to have quite grasped the …