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From Friday 01 July 2016

LIVE: Bring Me The Horizon @ The Other Stage, Glastonbury Festival

Photo not from Glastonbury It once seemed like the recyclable steel cups was all the Sheffield-produced metal that Glastonbury Festival would ever offer us. After the release of ‘Sempiternal’ in 2013, Bring Me the Horizon frontman Oli Sykes admitted his band were unlikely to ever play at Worthy Farm. Granted, it was

Saturday 10 October 2015

Crossfaith – ‘Xeno’

Ever since Judas Priest’s Unleashed In The East live album first showcased the country’s following of the genre, Japan has a long history of producing some of history’s less conventional metal acts. Comparatively normal by the country’s standards but by no means your ordinary band are Osaka dance/metal

Tuesday 22 September 2015

Bullet For My Valentine – ‘Venom’

It’s fair to say Bullet for My Valentine have quite a bit riding on fifth album ‘Venom’. After the release of their first three albums, they were seen as the bright hopes of British metal. Their thrashy yet poppy approach to Welsh rock, more in line musically with

Tuesday 18 August 2015

American Fangs – ‘Dirty Legs’

“Put your hands where my eyes can see” are the first cries of American Fangs vocalist Gabriel Cavalos seconds into opening track ‘Slavery Wedding’. With only three seconds of feedback before the track comes in with its Gallows energy-meets-Busta Rhymes lyrics, it sets the simple yet powerful tone

Thursday 25 June 2015

Babymetal – ‘Babymetal’

What would happen if the worlds of J-Pop and metal fused? It may be a question no one asked, but producer Kobametal’s Babymetal have the answer. They are a trio comprised of three singers and dancers Su-Metal, Yuimetal and Moametal, all in their mid-late teens. It’s all too

Wednesday 10 June 2015

Muse – ‘Drones’

Whatever your opinions on the music itself, you can’t fault Muse for having a lack of ambition in recent years. From 2009’s three-part ‘Exogenesis Symphony’ to the EDM of 2012’s ‘Unsustainable’, it is quite telling that their idea of ‘stripped-back’ is a concept album with a ten-minute track.