LIVE: Beartooth / The Amity Affliction / Higher Power @ Academy 1, Manchester

If you were to suggest that many bands have had a bigger few years than Beartooth since the release of third album ‘Disease’, we’d struggle to believe you. Not that they were in any way a small band before this – Caleb Shomo has been a well known part

Bury Tomorrow, Employed To Serve, Blood Youth @ Academy, Manchester

LIVE: Bury Tomorrow / Employed To Serve / Blood Youth @ Academy 1, Manchester

British heavy music is in undeniably magnificent shape right now. Not only are there a strong contingent of bands ascending to become the next wave of festival headliners, but also an incredible number of artists breaking out with albums that are making Album Of The Year lists across the

LIVE: Thrice / Refused @ Academy 1, Manchester

Tonight is Halloween, and it’s also meant to be the day the UK leaves the European Union. Everywhere you look there are ghouls, hooded figures looking for treats, haunting images of impending doom at every turn… And then there’s all the Halloween stuff. Brexit hasn’t happened,