Azra Pathan, Author at OriginalRock.net

March 26, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: The Fallen State – A Deadset Endeavour

State your Claim! With Brexit looming ( not again…) and the UK looking down the toilet, I am one of the lucky few hunkering down with tea and biscuits and the new offering from our British heroes, The Fallen State....

March 20, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Lotus Eater – Social Hazard

Mother Freaking Fear! We have a solid, measured and accurately targeted dose of thuggery to begin this rabid and rowdy onslaught, it makes a lot of noise for something so neatly packaged. With “Yuck” be prepared for a vicious pounding-...

March 19, 2019 No Responses

Interview: The Fallen State’s Ben Stenning and Jon Price

Fallen Stars Ensconced in the cramped quarters of the dressing room( don’t all breathe at once), I tackle Ben and Jon from The Fallen State on life’s mysteries, described as “beefy and brooding” I say pass the Bovril my friends...

March 19, 2019 No Responses

Interview: Pop Evil’s Hayley Cramer

The Lion Queen You find me sitting in the dark of the Academy bar waiting anxiously to meet the “girl in the band”. Hayley Cramer, a compatriot and drummer with Pop Evil, joins me to have a quick chinwag about...

March 18, 2019 No Responses

EP Review: The Xcerts – Wildheart Dreaming

Dead Cert Desserts! These four little titbits were written at the time of the “Hold On To Your Heart” sessions but were not included on that album. Instead we have extra pudding my friends, and everyone loves pudding! This EP...

March 18, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Mark Morton – Anesthetic

Oceans Eleven The featured artists list on Mark Morton’s debut solo outing reads like the running order for the State Opening of Parliament, it has all the splendour, pomp and ceremony, so “Hats off, Stranger” as we high tail it...

March 8, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Children of Bodom – Hexed

Hexed Messages Like a thoroughbred, gallopingly wildly across the wide-open plains, “This Road” opens the latest Children Of Bodom record, one which I have been looking forward to immensely. Straight outta Finland (Hanoi Rocks, sorely missed, RIP Razzle, h...

Live Review: Pop Evil, The Fallen State and Blackwater Fiend at O2 Academy, Birmingham

March 5, 2019 No Responses

Author: Azra Pathan