Live: Download Festival Saturday
Whilst the poor weather seemed never ending there was certainly a few bands on Saturday’s line-up to lift some spirits. Slipknot mark their return headlining the festival after a four year absence, Halestorm are the first ever female fronted band to headline any stage ever at the festival and Download veterans, Trivium, make yet another …
Preview: Download Festival 2019 – Friday
We’re into the final week before Download Festival and now we’re aware of the full line-up, here is a quick round up of who might pique your interest on the Friday night of the festival. Sheffield natives Def Leppard (Main Stage @ 9:10pm) are set to finish off the day with a bang, including their …
Album Review: Dorothy – 28 Days In The Valley
Proving they can fit right in with the big boys, Dorothy’s debut album provided a fresh vibe of stunningly addictive hard rock hits lead by namesake Dorothy Martin’s soulfully charming vocals. On first impressions, 28 Days In The Valley has seemingly moved the band from lively and aggressive to a country-esque bluesy record and given …
Live: Kerrang! Tour 2017, Birmingham O2 Institute – 5.12.17
The Kerrang! tour has been a staple in gig goers calendars for years, big names playing smaller venues accompanied by bands you’ve seen flicking through the pages of the magazine all year round. The line-up is, most of the time, so diverse that you’ll have your ears treated to new genres of music. Past line-up’s …
Live: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, O2 Ritz Manchester – 3.12.17
This specific sold out show has had some hype behind it for a while, much like their album; Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes’ live show is acclaimed by most in the genre as being quite the spectacle. So of course support band Basement have a lot to do to warm the crowd. With their …
Live Review: You Me At Six, Tonight Alive – Doncaster Dome, 7.4.17
You Me At Six have, as lead vocalist Josh Franceschi puts it “done everything we wanted, and now we’re just doing it for fun.” Considering the band are set to headline Reading And Leeds’ second stage come August, it’s quite the bold statement in regards to the bands goals. They’re here for the fun and …
Live Review: State Champs, Leeds Beckett University – 16.03.17
A tour like this has possibly been in the minds of pop punk fans for a while, As It Is backing up their impressive new album okay. and State Champs, coming up to the two year anniversary of their newest album Around The World And Back are arguably two of the best UK (As It …
Live: With Confidence, The Key Club Leeds – 28/02/2017
This Aussie quartet have a lot to live up to given their Sydney based genre counterparts, 5 Seconds Of Summer have hit such heights over the past few years and With Confidence have now got to the point of hitting overseas for their own UK headline tour. Having been over here a few times in …
News: The Charm The Fury Announce New Album Details
Dutch metalcore band The Charm The Fury have unveiled the title of their new album The Sick, Dumb & Happy which will be released 17th March 2017 via Nuclear Blast/ Arising Empire. All we know at this time is the album title and artwork which the band have commented on stating; “This record is a cross-section …
EP: Halestorm – ReAniMate 3.0: The CoVeRs EP
The third installment in a thrilling saga of cover EPs that Halestorm have produced is enough to set 2017 off with a bang. ReAniMate 3.0 showcases, yet again, that Halestorm can turn any song into their own. From Twenty One Pilots to Joan Jett to Metallica, this new EP flings old classics and new pop …