rock/metal
Track: Mount Moriah – Cardinal Cross
Mount Moriah have released a new track “Cardinal Cross” ahead of their upcoming 3rd album “How To Dance”, follow up to the well received “Miracle Temple” from 2013. Their sound over the last 2 albums has been led by the plaintive vocals of Heather McEntire, and her haunting lyrics about regret and heartache playing over …
Not Forgotten: Mick Ronson – Play Don’t Worry
Mick Ronson was perhaps the ultimate limelight grabbing sideman. Be he by the side of Ian Hunter, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, or, most famously, David Bowie, Ronno always gave whoever he was backing up a certain amount of legitimacy and added star power. Quite why his own solo career consisted of merely two mid-70s efforts …
News: Merry Christmas From Slam Dunk Festival!
The folks over at Slam Dunk Festival have only gone and designed a downloadable Christmas Card (which you can find here) for you to give to the festival lover in your life this holiday season, complete with tickets for next year’s Slam Dunk! While the date for ordering tickets to ensure they’d arrive by post before …
Live: Nothing More, SHVPES, In Search Of Sun – Manchester Academy 3, 7.12.15
It’s brisk December and In Search Of Sun hold the task of warming the crowd up for the evening. There’s only about 20 people in the room by the time the band take the stage but if you didn’t turn around to look at the gaping empty floor you wouldn’t know it given the intensity …
Not Forgotten: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
The first thing that strikes you about Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers ’ debut album is how rough it sounds compared to the slick and streamlined made-for American roadtrips that their reputation has hung upon. With this in mind it’s perhaps not surprising that they were initially mistakenly considered to be part of the punk …
Live: Fish & Lazuli – Sheffield City Hall – 10.12.2015
Way back in the mid-90s, I turned down the opportunity to see Fish live in concert, and opted to go and see another band, who I was more familiar with. The band I saw were distinctly disappointing, and I’ve regretted not choosing to see the former Marillion frontman instead ever since, especially as, a couple …
See: Like Moths To Flames release new video for ‘Wither’
Columbus, Ohio metalcore quartet Like Moths to Flames have released a new video for their track Wither, taken from their highly regarded ‘The Dying Things We Live For’, out now on Rise Records. The track is muscular, in your face aggressive and yet has this certain swagger about it, laying down these sour sounding chords …
News: American Head Charge’s Tango Umbrella gets release date
Resurfacing with the Shoot EP in 2013 after being disbanded for several years American Head Charge didn’t waste any time before hitting the road. Now though the alt metallers have finally announced the release date for their new album “Tango Umbrella” the eagerly awaited follow up to 2005’s “The Feeding”. The new album will be …
Not Forgotten: The Black Crowes – Amorica
After two albums which had established them as the great hopes for American retro rock in the 90s, The Black Crowes hit bumpy ground with Band, an album they spent a significant amount of time and energy recording, before it was shelved, only for some of its material to be recycled for Amorica, the band’s …
Album Review: Sunn O))) – Kannon
How do you find yourself listening to Sunn O)))? What makes you decide to buy tickets to see Sunn O))), donning cloaks and floating in a sea of fog machine emissions in some small theater as the ceiling tiles shake and plaster cracks and crumbles from the sheer hellish volume they create? In the past …