Chelsea Grin & more in Toronto
The Opera House November 17th 2019 This is one of the shows I’ve been the most excited for this year. Such a stacked line…
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Accelerator Tour in LA, 2019
November 9, 2019 at The Belasco Theater, Los Ángeles CA Awake at Last, the dark pop, hard rock, post hardcore band from Dover, Delaware,…
Entombed A.D. – Bowels of Earth (CD/LP)
I have to confess that the last time I paid any attention to the members of Entombed was around 1993, when the band released…
Alestorm in Ottawa, November 2019
Alestorm with Aephanemer, Sovereign Council & The Aphelion Wednesday, November 6 @ The Brass Monkey The air was cold and brisk as I approached…
Life Of Agony in Birmingham, October 2019
25.10.2019 @ O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK When Life of Agony announced their European tour there were another two bands on the bill: Doyle and…
Killer – Vol 2: Only The Strong Survive
It’s fair to say that Killer are the most influential of all Belgian heavy metal bands (Belgian metal is highly underrated, check out the…
Gloryhammer @ The Mill Digbeth
22.10.2019, Birmingham, UK When I turned round the corner onto Lower Trinity Street where tonight’s venue The Mill is located I couldn’t believe my…
Subhumans – Crisis Point LP
Mark Twain once said that in order to truly find one’s way to genuine inspiration, “First, get your facts straight – then distort them…
Blackthorne – We Won’t Be Forgotten: The Blackthorne Anthology
Rainbow’s ‘Down To Earth’ is one of the classic hard rock albums. The vocalist from that album was a certain Graham Bonnet, who would…
Festival review: Aftershock 2019
With the eighth installment of Monster Energy’s Aftershock festival in the rearview mirror one thing remains very clear: this is North America’s premiere festival…