Category: Reviews – Live
Hellbound is always there, lurking in the crowd, while the band blisters the very air.
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Festival Review: Fortress Festival 2024
As a young buck, I was never attracted to Black Metal more than when it was filled to the brim with inconceivable levels of exalted atmosphere that encapsulated the world around me in all aspects; emotionally, physically and geographically. As I walked up to the edge of Scarborough’s Seaside Cliff to find myself gazing down…
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Voivod & Cryptic Shift – Glasgow, UK – April 19th, 2023
Decisions, decisions. Tonight Canadian prog metal weirdos Voivod are in Glasgow, the same night as Cannibal Corpse and Dark Funeral. Despite the former’s legendary fame, Slay is particularly busy with punters who select cosmic chaos instead. The doors open at 6:30pm, yet the sole support Cryptic Shift takes the stage at 8:15pm. The audience’s mandatory…
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Swallow the Sun & Draconian – Glasgow, UK – April 10th, 2023
What better way to celebrate Easter Sunday than a gloom-drenched evening with Nordic doom metallers Swallow the Sun and Draconian? This funerary co-headlining tour stops in Glasgow’s Slay on its UK tour. The venue is busy, defying both economic despair and festive familial commitments. Sweden’s Draconian are a well-established hybridisation of gothic and death/doom metal,…
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Amon Amarth – Live in Toronto – December 2022
The Great Heathen Tour saw Viking metal legends Amon Amarth joined by death metal giants Carcass, Obituary and Cattle Decapitation for a North American tour of epic proportions. Belatedly, here are some captures of the tour’s stop in Toronto at the east-end venue History, by guest photographer Keith Ibbitson of Lower Eastside Photography. Follow Keith…
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Carcass, Municipal Waste, Sacred Reich, Creeping Death – Live in Toronto – April 2023
It was an absolute rager at the Phoenix Concert Theatre, on a Sunday night no less, for the legendary CARCASS with Municipal Waste, Sacred Reich and Creeping Death. Your friendly neighbourhood photographer, Danielle, was there and suitably overcaffeinated to capture some of the action. Here’s highlights of some of the shots I got, starting with…
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Napalm Death – Glasgow, UK – March 9th, 2023
Grindcore legends Napalm Death return to Glasgow with the Campaign for Musical Destruction 2023 tour. Just in December, these crazed Englishmen in Glasgow opened the eclectic bill of Volbeat and Skindred at the Hydro arena. Now, they’re rightfully headlining the Classic Grand and the show is sold out. Like many, this gig fell victim to…
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Archspire – Glasgow, UK – March 7th, 2023
Canadian Technical Death Metallers Archspire are bringing their Tech Trek Europe Tour to Glasgow. It’s been just over three years since these madmen were last in the city and the Cathouse is rammed with eager attendees. France’s Benighted hit the stage with a grindcore-flecked death metal attack. Song structures bristle with infinite brutality and an…
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Left to Die – Glasgow, UK – March 6th
Few death metal bands have left such an imprint on the genre as Florida’s seminal band Death. This influential act was formed by Chuck Schuldiner back in 1984. He left this earthly plane far too soon by passing away from pneumonia after being weakened by brain cancer in 2001. Left to Die is a tribute…
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Raven – Glasgow, UK – March 4th, 2023
Heavy metal veterans Raven are playing in Edinburgh tonight, their first show in Scotland’s capital since 1982. This was precisely a year before their seminal All for One album came out, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. This tour pays tribute to this release by having the band play it from start to end.…