Of all of the venues that Leeds has to offer, Left Bank is perhaps the most apt for tonight’s selection of music. Once a church, the building has become an arts space utilised for concerts, […]
Bluedot Festival 2018: A Weekend of Discovery and Inspiration
Bluedot is not your typical music festival. Taking place at Jodrell Bank Observatory, Bluedot festival presents a quality line-up of music along side science talks, ranging from sustainability and climate change to space exploration, panel […]
Of Mice and Men’s ‘Defy’ will make you “punch your fist in defiance”.
Over the course of a career that has thus far spanned almost 10 years, Of Mice and Men have undergone a number of line-up changes, with the roles of band-members constantly shifting; the most recent […]
Ho99o9 to play Brudenell Social Club, 12/12
2017 has been a busy year for Ho99o9 (pronounced “Horror”). Having started off the year supporting The Dillinger Escape Plan on their final UK tour, they released United States of Horror in May and returned […]
Synthesis by Evanescence
With Christmas lights being switched on across the country, ’tis apparently the season to re-release some old material (and be jolly of course). Over the last month or so, we have seen a number of […]
‘Red Before Black’ by Cannibal Corpse
Having formed almost 30 years ago, Cannibal Corpse have cemented their position in the bedrock of death metal. The somewhat morbidly named band are one of the most well-established on the death metal circuit, with […]
Brooders Storm The Lending Room Stage with New Single ‘Amnesia’
Last Friday marked the release of Brooders’ latest single – ‘Amnesia’ – with the band playing a hometown release show the night before at the Lending Room. Most bands experience some anxiety over the potential […]
Arcane Roots @ Key Club, 17/10
Arcane Roots are, perhaps, a band who have something for everyone. The crowd that descend upon the Key Club tonight appear to represent this perfectly; heavy enough to draw in metalheads, complex enough to draw […]
Gary Numan @ O2 Academy Brixton
The widespread influence of Gary Numan in modern music is perhaps best illustrated by the variety of genres played over the house sound system as throngs of fans fill the Brixton Academy on Saturday night; […]
‘Nightbringers’ by The Black Dahlia Murder
For those who aren’t familiar with The Black Dahlia Murder, the death metal band draw their name from an unsolved case involving the brutal murder of a young woman in California during the 1940s. Forming […]
Tesseract @ Brudenell Social Club 7/2/16
In the modern-day world of Metal, Djent has become a dirty word. These negative connotations come perhaps due to the tendency of many Djent bands to compose as a form of musical masturbation, concocting pieces […]
Racism In Metal
When asked what comes to mind when they think of Metal as a genre of music, many in the mainstream will mention “noise”, “anger”, and “screaming”; when considering the fans that follow such a musical […]