Amon Amarth – ‘The Allfather Awakens’ Album Review
The Allfather Awakens is the highly anticipated 13th album by Swedish berserker veterans Amon Amarth, who, over the last three decades have well and truly cemented themselves as the band that comes to mind whenever anyone mentions Viking Metal. There is no doubt that Amon Amarth have a tried and tested formula that just works. […]
Against the Current with Daydreamers – O2 Institute, Birmingham
Against the Current brought their Till Death & Back Tour to a packed O2 Institute in Digbeth on a Tuesday night, celebrating 15 years as a band while promoting their new album of the same name, released just four days earlier. Support came from Daydreamers, and there was a good atmosphere in the room from […]
A week of Eleine, 5 nights, 5 galleries of images . . .
Birmingham: Glasgow: Manchester: Nottingham: Southampton: All photographs by Kate Elfström
Swedish metal night with Eleine supported by Rexoria and LiV SiN – O2 Institute 2 Birmingham.
Was this an omen for the evening; I walked into the venue to be faced with rather a lot of smoke. This seems to be a bit of a thing for the Institute of late, ho-hum! Liv Jagrell converted her former band, Sister Sin, into her current band, LiV SiN and brought with it her […]
Afterdrive with The Masses and SWRVE – O2 Institute 3, Birmingham
I had the amazing opportunity to watch Afterdrive for their first ever headline tour, watching them bring their debut Ep ‘Dress To Drive’ to life on stage. Having previously performed alongside remarkable artists such as Maggie Lindermann for her sold out tour across the UK and EU, and Ed Sheeran to support at his Portman […]
ASH reveal long lost track ‘Bittersweet Blue’
Watch the new video HERE 30th anniversary edition of debut album 1977 out now via BMG and World tour on sale now. With the recent announcement from Ash of a special 30th anniversary edition of their seminal debut album 1977, the band are today revealing a song that many fans will have thought lost forever. ‘Bittersweet Blue’ was originally […]
GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING ROCK BAND OK GO RELEASE “OH NO (EXTRA NICE EDITION)” IN CELEBRATION OF ALBUM’S 21st ANNIVERSARY
OUT NOW – LISTEN HERE OH NO IS RIAA GOLD CERTIFIED, AND HIT SINGLE “HERE IT GOES AGAIN” GOES 2X PLATINUM. ICONIC TREADMILL VIDEO AKA “HERE IT GOES AGAIN” CELEBRATES ITS‘ 20TH ANNIVERSARY. GRAMMY Award-winning rock band OK Go have released Oh No (Extra Nice Edition), arriving digitally and on vinyl via Capitol Records. The arrival […]
This year EVERGREY have unveiled a new album, several new singles, a new guitarist and a European tour . . .
In June this year, Swedish progressive metal band Evergrey released their 15th studio album, Architects of a New Weave on the Napalm Records label. Earlier to this they also released several tracks, as singles, from that new album including the title track in March, then The World is on Fire in April, along with new […]
AGAINST THE CURRENT – UNLEASHES NEW SINGLE “WHITE NOISE” / UK TOUR STARTS THIS MONTH
AGAINST THE CURRENT HAS UNLEASHED THEIR NEW SINGLE “WHITE NOISE” AHEAD OF 30TH OCTOBER ALBUM RELEASE OF TILL DEATH & BACK PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE TILL DEATH & BACK THE GENRE-DEFYING ROCK TRIO RETURNS WITH AN INFECTIOUS TRACK “WHITE NOISE” LISTENTILL DEATH & BACK UK/EU TOUR STARTS THIS MONTH Against the Current share “White Noise,” the latest single from their […]
Magnum with Grand Slam at KK’s Steelmill.
Magnum return to touring and brought the show to Wolverhampton’s KK’s Steelmill supported by British Rock stalwarts Grand Slam. The show opens with Grand Slam, a band originally formed by Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott in 1984 with current guitarist Laurence Archer. In the original incantation, the band lasted less than a year, Phil Lynott passed […]