Sirenia with Temperance & Symphonity at Manchester Academy.
Saturday night in Manchester means only one thing today which is a night of symphonic metal to really get your weekend started. However…. Unfortunately, first band Symphonity had a start time of 7:20 which made the first half of the set extremely quiet which felt […]
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Static Lives with Urban Theory & Sietch at 33 Oldham Street, Manchester.
33 Oldham Street is a new upcoming music venue in the heart of Manchester ready to open its doors to new bands. and tonight that involves Sheffield born Static Lives on their first headline tour. For a music venue you can tell it’s brand new […]
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Bruce Dickinson / Black Smoke Trigger – Manchester Academy.
Black Smoke Trigger Initiating proceedings tonight is a four-piece hard rock outfit from New Zealand. Straightforward, driving mid-tempo guitar with stomping beats was the vibe, and they achieved this well, the Sunday night crowd quickly warming to them during their solid but brief set. At […]
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SPEARMINT — Release Brand New Album: ‘This Candle Is For You’ + Listen To “The Most Secret Agent In The World”.
ALBUM OUT NOW, VIA WIAIWYA RECORDS; STREAM ON ALL SERVICES HERE PLUS, ONE-OFF LONDON LIVE DATE IN DECEMBER; REMAINING TICKETS ON SALE HERE Arriving as their 10th official studio album, and 60th release on their own hitBACK label, the London independent mainstays return with 12 […]
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Starbenders plus The Soul Revival at KK’s Steelmill.
We’re in the KK’s Steelmill boxroom tonight, well, not quite a boxroom but the smaller side room away from the main area. Audience tonight was only expected to be around 100 people so quite an intimate gig in prospect. The show kicks off with local […]
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Fall Out Boy with Nothing, Nowhere and PVRIS, First Direct Arena, Leeds.
It’s a Friday night in Leeds, at the First Direct Arena and there are two massive queues outside of the arena that travel around the entirety of the building, all Fall Out Boy fans ready for the new tour to promote the band’s latest album […]
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Autarkh Streaming New Album.
Autarkh Evolve on ‘Emergent’ Autarkh already sounded like the future on their debut. But the Dutch contemporary metal band have pushed their distended view of the digital age to further extremes on their new album. “It is even safe to say that the Autarkh that […]
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Full Of Hell and Nothing Share Stirring New Video for “Like Stars in the Firmament”.
The correlative clip follows the album’s first single “Spend the Grace.” When No Birds Sang is out on December 1st. “crushingly beautiful” – Consequence “…a jaw-dropping display of the two bands’ chemistry with a thick ambiance giving way to throat-scratching vocals and stadium-sized riffs.” – GLIDE […]
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INTO THE DEEP Release New Single “Nothing”.
Listen to “Nothing” Here INTO THE DEEP have released their new single “Nothing”. The track is from their album Blackfin which is out on January 3rd, 2024. Entwined in metaphors and oceanic imagery, Blackfin traverses different watery plains in a commentary on the personal and political […]
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BEYOND UNBROKEN (feat. co-founding members of Escape The Fate) release new single ‘Blood On My Hands’, out now on FiXT.
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX_eD6pgPcc Beyond Unbroken Releases Haunting New Metalcore Single “Blood On My Hands” For Fans Of Bad Omens, Spiritbox, Sleep Token, Wage War, Falling In Reverse, Escape The Fate, Bring Me The Horizon. Immerse yourself in a sonic storm of Rock, Metal, Metalcore, Hard […]
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Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton ‘Death Wish Blues’ with The Commoners as support; O2 Institute, Birmingham.
It was a dark and very wet evening – sounds like the start to a new horror story, but it was, in fact, true. A group of people outside, me included, who were expecting the doors to open at 6pm were both disappointed and soaked […]
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Ash, The Subways co-headliner with Jealous Nostril, O2 Ritz, Manchester.
It’s a Tuesday night here in Manchester and it’s an evening ready for mid-2000s rock! Tonight Ash and The Subways take over Manchester’s 02 Ritz, with songs that you’ve probably not heard in a decade, but send you back to a happier place. Jealous Nostril […]
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Kids in Glass Houses s/b The Nightmares at the O2 Ritz, Manchester.
It’s been a long wait for this night. Kids In Glass Houses have returned to our lives again after almost 10 years. Back in 2014 the band broke up with the thought of never getting back together and making music again, the alternative music scene […]
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