Album Review: My Dying Bride – The Ghost Of Orion

Album Review: My Dying Bride – The Ghost Of Orion

Doom With A View. Eh up, there’s trouble at t’mill, but our friends in My Dying Bride will not be hampered by life’s agonies, indeed there have been some crushing ones for vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe, facing every parent’s nightmare head...
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Album Review: Viscera – Obsidian

Album Review: Viscera – Obsidian

Lilith Immaculate Hello, my friends, hope you are well and ready to welcome some of your past favourites as they have joined forces to create a brand  spanking new rock brigade. Some of the bodies that once inhabited Martyr Defiled,...
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Album Review: Obsidian Tongue – Volume III

Album Review: Obsidian Tongue – Volume III

Ultra -Violet Arising from the chilly waters of the Massachusetts shoreline, we have Brendan Hayter, the brains behind the musical project known as Obsidian Tongue. It began as a solo outing, and in November 2009 drummer Greg Murphy joined the...
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Live Review: Loathe at The Asylum, Birmingham

Live Review: Loathe at The Asylum, Birmingham

The Phox God It’s cold my friends, this is the fourth night in about eight days that I have been queuing to get in for a show. The rock fraternity have the endless gig problem of how to dress, coat,...
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Album Review: Napalm Death – Logic Ravaged By Brute Force

Album Review: Napalm Death – Logic Ravaged By Brute Force

Micro Monsters! Local heroes Napalm Death return with a short but sharp burst of aggression with this two track EP to cleanse our stale palates and remind us of why they are the kings of Grindcore. They set down their...
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Live Review: The Wildhearts, CKY and Backyard Babies at The Institute, Birmingham

Live Review: The Wildhearts, CKY and Backyard Babies at The Institute, Birmingham

Baby Boom! It was a dream bill for many, three bands who have survived the bear pit that is the music industry and are still pulling in the crowds, even on this not very Rock ‘N Roll Tuesday evening, we...
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Album Review: Lordi – Killection

Album Review: Lordi – Killection

Killer On The Radio I’m staying in Finland for this review as our monstrous men of the forest Lordi return for more scares and test me if you dare in ‘Killection’ and as the title suggests no one gets out...
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Live Review: Anti-Flag at The Mill, Birmingham

Live Review: Anti-Flag at The Mill, Birmingham

Home-Maid Creepshow. Prepare for battle my friends as Hastings quartet Maid Of Ace step up to the plate to deliver some home grown, edge of a knife, no nonsense Punk rock. They are the Elliot Sisters and have been stage...
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Live Review: Hawthorne Heights at The Asylum, Birmingham

Live Review: Hawthorne Heights at The Asylum, Birmingham

Giant Steps It’s a tough gig my friends, traversing the UK and further afield, plying your trade, and it is not for the faint-hearted. It is an experience that is fraught and full of risks, far away from family and...
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EP Review: Ihsahn – Telemark

EP Review: Ihsahn – Telemark

On Your Telemark’s, Set, Go! Yes, friends we have here a gambol through ancient forests in Midwinter with our crepuscular count, the only Lord of darkness, Ihsahn, as he walks in a winter wonderland to the sound of deep, deathly...
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