Meltem Yumulgan, Author at Trebuchet

Owning The Black Sabbath Legacy

08/02/2019

500 words on Black Sabbath - is there anything left to say? - Trebuchet's Lester Bangs Tribute - Meltem...

Operation: Mindcrime (Live Review)

09/02/2018

To Queensrÿche without Geoff Tate or to Geoff Tate without Queensrÿche? Operation: Mindframe celebrate 30 years of their namesake album....

Don’t Get Old, Get ‘Spiritual’! Mr Big [Live]

23/11/2017

You're never too old to kick out those jams. Mr Big lay into Shepherds Bush Empire...

Sebastian Bach : O2 Islington [Live]

27/07/2014

If the music was polished, it was in the between-songs repartee where Bach won the crowd over....

Tesla : O2 Academy, Islington

21/06/2014

No glitter, no razzle-dazzle, but a rapport that oozes sincerity and solid music to follow up. Tesla, Live at the O2, Islington. ...

Sebastian Bach : Give ‘Em Hell

15/04/2014

Compared to previous Sebastian Bach albums, there is an increase in vocal harmonies, and some of the effects used give a sense of an alternative or electronic sound at times....

Gotthard : Bang!

27/03/2014

It's tip-of-the-brain stuff, trying to list all the possible classic Hard Rock references for these songs, yet they stay on the right side of pastiche....

Def Leppard Interview (Part 2)

11/03/2014

I think a lot of that was down to “Mutt” Lange. He worked us so hard on those records to make it sound special. He didn’t want us to sound like a run of the mill rock band. ...

Def Leppard : Interview

04/03/2014

There are so many artists, bands and so many different ways of getting them. It’s taken the special out of it. There’s too much out there. ...

I think it sounds a bit commercial but that wasn’t done on purpose (Phil Collen)

28/11/2013

'In Def Leppard, I’m a guitar player and here I’m a singer. I’m playing a completely different instrument.' Phil Collen of Man Raze (and Def Leppard) explains his most recent project....

Resistanbul: Turkish Protests

22/06/2013

Turkish people do not call these events 'protests'; they call the whole set of events ‘direnis’ which means ‘resistance’ in Turkish....

Helloween : HMV Forum

08/05/2013

Hi-jinks and Helloween metal energy = Win....

Helloween; Straight Out of Hell

15/01/2013

Helloween break an extended silence with the release of Straight Out Of Hell. New album due on January 18th...

Doro Pesch: Interview

24/10/2012

I have never been degraded or considered the second sex as a woman. I was always supported and respected because I had the chance to work with the best people. And good people, they know better!'...

The Mercy House: Interview

23/08/2012

The genre obsessions have to stop, I guess something is going right when everyone becomes the great ‘opinionizer’, but I think that’s what can be exciting about music, take something out of the...

Rival Sons: Jay Buchanan Interview

09/04/2012

Trebuchet interviews Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan discussing music life and the million of chances in between....

Furyon: Interview

24/03/2012

Furyon singer/frontman Matt Mitchell explains all to Trebuchet interview Meltem. ...

Interview: Ian Jones (KARNATAKA)

08/03/2012

It is very common to hear people moaning about clichés, especially when it comes to our ‘soul feeder’ music. Even Rock music, which once was a controversial movement against the...