Tag: Metal

Metal

Freak Show Candy Floss (Voodoo Vegas)

22/09/2016

Voodoo Vegas serve up hard-hitting no-frills rock, killer riffs and shredding solos. ...

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Devin Townsend Project, Transcendence

Astral Tweaks: Transcendence (Devin Townsend Project)

15/09/2016

Never one to keep things simple, Devin Townsend returns to the Project with characteristically symphonic grandeur...

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Stone(r)s of the Desert Age (Truckfighters)

11/09/2016

Five albums in, stoner-rock trio Truckfighters bring the desert to your living room...

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Bringing in the New: Cambridge Rock Festival

19/08/2016

Blues, classic and progressive rock at another of Cambridge's fine festivals...

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Wacken 2015

Live at Wacken 2015, 26 Years, Louder Than Hell

15/08/2016

Stiff necks and bleeding ears at a small village in Schleswig-Holstein. ...

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Summer Dies Slowly: August Metal Meltdown

08/08/2016

A summer of death, filth, junkie Olympians and the Zika virus needs an appropriate soundtrack. Metal meltdown ahoy....

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The Company Corvette

Sludge in the Sparkplugs? (The Company Corvette)

23/07/2016

Is Doom, Groove and Stoner metal too rich a mix for this Corvette's carburettor? Review...

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Karmakanic

Getting Under the Bonnet of Dot (Karmakanic)

09/07/2016

Tweaking your prog rock pistons, Karnakanic release Dot. Review...

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Renew Your Metalcore Memories (Dead Label)

29/06/2016

Review of Dead Label's metalcore album Throne of Bones...

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Loitered Lens: Breaking Benjamin

26/06/2016

Photos of Breaking Benjamin at KOKO, London, May 2016...

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Flights of Fancy, Theories of Flight (Fates Warning)

22/06/2016

At times technical, at others self-indulgent, Theories of Flight is indeed progressive metal. Review...

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Beyond the Big Four. Unheralded but Solid Thrash (Flotsam & Jestsam)

14/06/2016

Will it float, or should we jettison it? Flotsam & Jetsam dish up the thrash....

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A Most Dramatic of Comas: The Theater Equation (Ayreon)

09/06/2016

Ayreon's staging of The Human Equation is anything but comatose...

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metal

Manami Mogg’s Moggy Metal Mix 2 (Wo Fat, Interment, Death Angel, Regret)

31/05/2016

With the suburban bliss of both Primary and Secondary Feeders shattered by the horticulturalists next-door, Manami Mogg reviews the month's metal releases...

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Loitered Lens: The Dead XIII

19/05/2016

Horror metal from straight outta Catacombs, The Dead XIII morgue Islington up. Photos ...

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Gravenous Hour

Technical Brutality for (nearly) a Gravenous Hour (Katalepsy)

17/05/2016

Blasting their way to the top of the Death Metal scene, Russia's Katalepsy release album number two. Review...

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Loitered Lens: Sumo Cyco

15/05/2016

Sumo Cyco exhort the Camden Underworld crowd to a filthy frenzy. Photos...

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meshuggah 2016

Meshuggah European Tour 2016

13/05/2016

Extreme tech-metal messiahs Meshuggah announce Winter 2016 European Tour...

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Sumo Cyco

Sever spawned a Monster’s Ball (Sumo Cyco live at The Underworld)

13/05/2016

A kerosene cocktail of sparky lust and punk metal power - Sumo Cyco raise the temperature at the Underworld. Review...

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Haken, Affinity

A Titan of Modern Progressive Rock. Affinity (Haken)

04/05/2016

Eschewing the cliches of the genre, this is Progressive Rock reinvented for the twenty-first century...

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in mourning

Nordic Death By Triple Guitar (In Mourning)

03/05/2016

Swedish triple-guitar death metal troupe In Mourning get melodic on Afterglow....

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Butcher Babies

Loitered Lens: Butcher Babies

01/05/2016

Top-poppin' queens of metal Butcher Babies put the front in frontwoman at the Underworld. Photos ...

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Acoustic Success From Droney Metallers (Amen Ra)

30/04/2016

Switching to acoustic, Amen Ra retain all their power and mood ...

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Avast Load of Salty Shanty (Dread Crew of Oddwood)

28/04/2016

Dead men tell no tales, but the Dread Crew of Oddwood take no prisoners with Lawful Evil ...

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Loitered Lens: Griever

24/04/2016

Metalcore newcomers Griever accelerate the gloom at Islington Academy 2. Photos...

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Tightly controlled musical chaos: Retrogore (Aborted)

21/04/2016

Aborted prove that the sicker the theme, the more intense the impact...

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devilsfingers

April Metal (Grimner, Miasmal, The Wolves of Avalon)

15/04/2016

The nightmare of history menaces the month's metal releases...

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Birushanah

Experimental Doom, Post Hardcore, and What Sounds Like Dustbin Lids (Birushanah)

09/04/2016

Japanese post-hardcore experimental brilliance this may be, but please stop banging those hubcaps. Birushanah reviewed...

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Bang. Zoom. Crazy… Hello (Cheap Trick)

06/04/2016

Classic infectious rock from Cheap Trick - the band Japanese metallers know as The American Beatles...

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Titanic Mass

Rearrange the Deck Chairs and PLAY ON! Titanic Mass (Dynazty)

30/03/2016

Dynazty's technically-profuse Melodic Scandinavian Metal album is as huge as you'd expect. It even has a power ballad....

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