rock/metal
Track: Hell’s Ditch – Take The Night Off
British punk rock group Hell’s Ditch are back with their brand-new single ‘Take The Night Off’ which is out now via Silent Cult Records. Singer Nick Davis comments: “We’re made to feel lucky that we have a job and that we should be grateful for the opportunity to fight over scraps from the tables of …
Track: Sour Tusk – Mission From God
Sheffield rockers Sour Tusk have shared their new single ‘Mission From God’. Huge chords, frantic finger work and driving drums are the name of the game here, and you can hear the Motorhead comparisons in the short and sharp delivery of the lyrics. It’s proper rock n roll to feed the soul and fill many …
Meet: Nic Rudd From Sheffield Band Sour Tusk
Described as a cross between Motorhead and Clutch it’s safe to say Sheffield rockers Sour Tusk are a must for rock fans. We caught up with drummer Nic Rudd to see how things are going and what our eardrums can expect in the near future. Give us a potted history of the band We started …
Track: Supera Morza – Damageland
Supera Morza have shared their brand new single ‘Damageland’ via Modern Sky. The track was produced and mixed by David Radahd Jones and mastered by Grant Berry. Jack Barrett states:“This track is for all the night shift slavers, the day shift low-wagers, the ones itching to get out of the cycle that keeps us chasing …
Live Review: Placebo / Cruel Hearts Club – 02 Academy Brixton, London 26.11.2022
It’s been a long time in coming ‘Placebo’ finally on tour playing two dates at Brixton Academy. A venue that has had many iconic artists playing there over the last decades. The latest’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ Tour is a showcase for the latest album which was released in March this year and after extensive …
Live Review: Amorphis / Eluveitie / Dark Tranquility / Nailed To Obscurity – O2 Ritz, Manchester 24.11.2022
By Sian Connolly It was a Thursday evening in Manchester and the venue we are in tonight is the amazing o2 Ritz, welcoming not one, not two, but four incredible metal bands to get the party started! Kicking off the night with the likes of “Black Forest” and “Liquid Mourning”, German death metal band, Nailed …
News: Meadow Fest 9 Announces Cracking Line-Up
If you missed Kurt Vile’s surprise support of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis with Courtney Barnett you can catch him with his band The Violators headlining Meadow in Autumn 2023. It’s the ninth instalment of Meadow at the Victorian surf coast retreat; a three-day two-night exploration of genre-expanding local and international live music in Bambra …
Meet: French Poetic Rock Band Fine Lame
French quintet Fine Lame combine literary-oriented French rock with Anglo-Saxon-rooted performance poetry. Their debut EP ‘Nous tournons en rond dans la nuit et nous sommes dévorés par le feu’ (We go around in circles in the night and are devoured by fire) is due the 29th November via Microcultures. Singer Raphaël Sarlin-Joly and keyboard/piano player Mathias Bourre, answered our …
Premiere: Fine Lame – Follow Me
Born in 2019, French rockers Fine Lame, offer frantic tracks of literary-oriented French rock with Anglo-Saxon-rooted performance poetry. They are set to release their debut EP ‘Nous tournons en rond dans la nuit et nous sommes dévorés par le feu’ (We go around in circles in the night and are devoured by fire) on the 29th of November via …
Live Review: Amorphis / Eluveitie / Dark Tranquillity / Nailed To Obscurity – O2 Ritz, Manchester 24.11.2022
By the time I’d battled across the Pennines, in the now all too familiar tailbacks and gridlocks of the M62 and Manchester City Centre, I arrived at the Ritz just as the closing chords of the mighty Nailed To Obscurity were ringing out. I was absolutely gutted as I had been really keen to catch …