LIVE: Rivers of Nihil / Black Crown Initiate / MØL / Orbit Culture @ Mama Roux’s, Birmingham

It’s a cold, wet, dreary Sunday night in Birmingham, and yet Mama Roux’s is packed right to the back with eager metalheads ready to be pummelled by tonight’s four-band touring lineup. Orbit Culture make short work of getting the crowd warmed up, with their tight, technical metal going over

Beartooth release live video

Hot on the heels of their country-inspired ‘Blackbird Sessions’ EP, Beartooth have now released a live video for ‘Bad Listener’, taken from their 2018 album ‘Disease’. Filmed at Germany’s Rock Am Ring earlier this year in front of 70,000 people by The Work Of Jar, it’s the

Haggard Cat announce new album and release single

What better way to start off October than with news that Nottingham’s ever unique, genre defying Haggard Cat are back? The inimitable band have announced that they will be releasing their sophomore full length, ‘Common Sense Holiday’, on 13 March 2020 – and, if that’s too long to wait

Jamie Lenman releases new video

Following the release of his recent covers album, ‘Shuffle’, Jamie Lenman has now released a new video for one of the tracks on the album. ‘Adamantium Rage’ is a reinterpretation of the theme music from his favourite computer game, ‘Wolverine Adamantium Rage’, and the video features just as much

Acres, Parting Gift, Captives @ The Key Club, Leeds

LIVE: Acres / Parting Gift / Captives @ Key Club, Leeds

Festival season may now be becoming a distant memory, but there’s always an upside to the long, sunny days of summer disappearing – mostly that it means the return of gig season, spending our evenings in darkened rooms with some of our favourite bands (and, probably, a few pints).

We Lost The Sea – ‘Triumph & Disaster’

We Lost The Sea were not always an instrumental band, and to many their last release, ‘Departure Songs’, may not have been the album expected – or even, at the time, wanted. It was the album they needed to make, however, and as sharp and as raw

Punktastic Presents: Playlist – October ’19

Judging by the way the country is going, this may well be the last issue of this article. We’ll be sailing down a river of dog dirt without an oar. The power grid will be knocked out, forcing us into a modern day Middle Ages. Roads will become gridlocked

Vinnie Caruana – ‘Aging Frontman’

When the front man of a much loved band releases solo work, it usually goes in one of two ways – identical to a full band release, or in a totally new direction. The Movielife and I Am The Avalanche’s Vinnie Caruana manages to tread the line between the

Steel Panther – ‘Heavy Metal Rules’

A decade after the release of their first studio album, ‘Feel The Steel’, you’d hope that Californian hair metal band Steel Panther would have grown up – or at least become a little more aware of social and political issues. Five albums later, ‘Heavy Metal Rules’ has been released,