Reading’s own heavy-duty doom-casters ELDERSEER a 4-piece deluxe, dark-smoke, horror-dream — kicked off round one of M2TM 2018 at the FACE BAR Reading this Friday. Very muddy and moody, their tangled compositions were pierced with bible-black openings, through which boiled incandescent guitars. For creations smoked with melancholy, this band couldn’t be bettered. The clear favorites…
We love the DAMES OF DARKNESS and lamented its passing in 2016! But the super one-day festival that elevates and glorifies female-fronted symphonic rock was back this year. We went along to Bilston to enjoy the operatics. The event kicked-off early Sunday afternoon at the Black Country‘s premier music venue, the Robin 2, with the…
Impressive, exquisite & subtle —
Anneke van Giersbergen’s VUUR have released the first track from their debut album [yet to be titled ] Days Go By – London. In 2016 the renowned Dutch vocalist and musician Anneke van Giersbergen [ The Gathering and The Gentle Storm with Arjen Anthony Lucassen] announced the formation of a brand new progressive metal group…
Nørwegian punk band SLØTFACE harness an unpredictable muscularity plus a degree of self-cøntemplation that is not only encøuraging but also very, very thrilling… Today — 23rd May — the group from Stavanger — that revolves around vocalist Haley Shea and guitarist Tor-Arne Vikingstad and with Halvard Skeie Wiencke on drums and Lasse Lokøy on bass…
The thrilling four piece will join an amazing line-up at Facebarmageddon this December
Those totally exciting London-based heavy rockers DERANGE played a show at the fabulous FACE BAR venue in Reading, UK this week. We went to see … The outfit — centred around Cat Pereira on vocals — and…
AMARANTHE will release a hyper-modern, metallic brute of a record OCTOBER 21st VIA SPINEFARM RECORDS … News here
If you thought that alternative rock could never again amaze you … think again! The solo voice is completely hypnotic and this whole thing builds-up into a vast soup of immoderate sound… Read the review here …
If you like 70´s styled rock and splendid harmonies, then you def need to check out HEAVY TIGER …
