rock/metal
Live Review: Stone Valley Festival Midlands – Thoresby Park, Newark 21.06.2024 – 23.06.2024
Stone Valley has been developing a reputation for being a great festival over the last few years, whether that’s the event in the South, the Midlands, or the North. Sadly, SV North has been cancelled this year due to the saturated ground, so I find myself at SV Midlands on the hottest weekend of the …
Live Review: Let’s Rock 80s The Retro Festival – Temple Newson, Leeds 22.06.2024
By Phil Wright Let’s set the scene. Saturday 22nd June, red hot day and 11,500 ‘party goers’ descend on Temple Newson in Leeds for a day of 80s music. What a magical day this was set to be, with a stellar line up off some of the greatest artists from the 80s. DJ Andy Crane …
Track: Shiva May Care – Falling Down
Brit rock‘ n ‘ rollers Shiva May Care have shared their fiery new single and video, ‘Falling Down.’ The track is taken from their forthcoming new EP, ‘Sound System Kaliyuga!’, which is due out later this year. Having originally started back in 2017 it wasn’t until last year that the four piece finally settled and …
Meet: FreeFall; A Band Long In The Making
Potted History of the Band “We’ve been together as a band for three months, but our musical journey began long before that. All of us attended school together, and after fifteen years, we decided to form a band.” David (lead guitarist/vocalist) and Josh (drummer/vocalist) have been best mates since the age of 12, with Chris …
Track: Barbarian Hermit – Mean Sugar
Manchester’s leading purveyors of groove-laden, stoner/doom metal, Barbarian Hermit, recently announced their return with a new album ‘Mean Sugar’, set to be released on 2nd August via APF Records. Written over a 3-year period, ‘Mean Sugar’ is a cathartic creation set against a backdrop that has seen people endure a global pandemic, endless political turmoil, …
Track: Fucked Up – Another Day
Toronto band Fucked Up have shared the title track from their forthcoming album ‘Another Day’, out August 9th on the band’s own imprint Fucked Up Records. The video for ‘Another Day’ gives a brief look at the history of human cannabis use and calls for an end to drug prohibition. This follows the previous single ‘Stimming‘. Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham explains: “Evolving side by …
News: Dropkick Murphys and Alkaline Trio Announce Australian Tour for November 2024
The Dropkick Murphys are coming to steal your beers and rock your socks off
News: The Cult Announce Australian Tour
Get ready, Australia—The Cult is bringing their explosive tour. downunder in November.
Live Review: Kerry King / Celestial Sanctuary – The Electric Ballroom, London 18.06.2024
As I rounded the corner from the tube I was met with an impressive line of black clad souls decorated in shirts ranging from the proudly worn decades old greyed out shirts to newer designs worn with just as much pride, a cacophony of shirts emblazoned with Thrash bands, although the Slayer moniker was without …
Live Review: Wingz Of The Monkey / No Ripcord / Ben Coaten – NE Volume Bar, Stockton 22.06.2024
The night was perfectly constructed with the Gerry Cinnamon Esq Ben Coaten opening things up, alt-rockers No Ripcord sending the night on a slow descent into chaos that punks rockers Wingz Of The Monkey cemented with a guitar snapping set. The venue was full of the young and the weird, which isn’t surprising considering the …