Thursday, March 27, 2014

Van Canto – A cappella Metal, where did that come from!

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A NUMBER of week's back we reviewed the latest release from a cappella metal band Van Canto , Dawn of the Brave. Despite our reservati...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Served loud, and served with intent, - Stiff Little Fingers' tour de force release No Going Back

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IN the darkest days of Northern Ireland's Troubles the many attempts by movements such as the Peace People to bring it to an end to the ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Power metal pounding from Sonata Arctica on Pariah's Child

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THE metal snobs sometimes dismiss European power metal, but they do so without realising the sheer majesty in the unrestrained, unconstraine...

Low down and dirty rock 'n' roll from Jackson Firebird

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Review by Baal The small country town of Mildura in Northern Victoria, home to Jackson Firebird. The two piece guitar and drums outfit fr...

Symphonies of the Night, Shakespeare and female power - Liv of Leaves Eyes tells all

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FOR many younger fans of rock and metal, the experience of watching the music rock channels on the TV meant they may have thought that metal...
Friday, March 21, 2014

No Hot Ashes rise Phoenix like to restore Rosetta's dreams

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MANY, many years ago in the shady recesses of south-east Belfast a rock club attracted insane rockers and metallers to catch the groove of a...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Football, punk and Belfast - Jake Burns and Ali McMordie tell all

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WHEN Stiff Little Fingers returned to Belfast to promote their latest release, No Going Back, we caught up with Jake Burns (Mr McMordie join...

Win tickets to see Amon Amarth in Belfast this August

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THEY'RE the Viking monsters whose nine albums of melodic death metal that have seen them grow from Swedish contenders to giants in the m...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

What have Madonna, Sophie Ellis-Baxter, Mel C and Prong got in common? Monte Pittman!

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HE'S the most heard and most seen rock guitarist you've probably never heard of. He's appeared to global audiences, played at Sl...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Grinding, Bitter sweet joy with 7 Weeks, A Little Bitter and Organ Grinders

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SATURDAY, March 15th - Limelight2, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast: timeline 5pm to 9pm. Schedule: punk, rock, alt and metal. All served with panache...
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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Stiff Little Fingers and The Defects - proof that punk is still relevant and fine rock performances exist

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THERE is something vital, visceral and filled with a love of life that sits askance with the perceived image of punk rock. But those at Belf...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Saxon unleash St. George's Day live blast that will have fists pumping

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Review by Baal Coming hot on the heels of the excellent "Unplugged & Strung Up" release is this new live offering from the ...

Sludge fest, thrash-tastic Saturday with Gama Bomb, War Iron, Owlcrusher, Defyed and much more

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SATURDAY night's all right for rocking, never mind what Elton John may say about fighting. And Saturday March 8th was a day filled to th...
Monday, March 10, 2014

No Going Back for Stiff Little Fingers

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OKAY fellow rockers - we hope you are all sitting comfortably, and relaxed as we tell you a tale, a tale of a rock band, a punk band, a poli...

Annihilator - Feast re-issue...the reasons why...

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Annihilator are one of the great bands to come out of Canada with a literal shed load of great thrash and metal songs. Recently the re-relea...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

Maurading Jizzy Pearl's Love/Hate storm Ahoghiill

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ON the face of it the Jizzy Pearl's last outing under the Love/Hate monicker had the ingredients of a disaster, as he prepares for start...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Fill yer weekend with rock and metal

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PLEASE place your liver in the overhead locker, a neck brace is provided underneath in case of passengers need to abandon headbanging. In th...
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Where to start - six bands. one taking a hiatus, one with a new singer, another with a new release - and all rockin' hard

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AS we head into another weekend of hard rockin' and heavy metal we took the time here to look back on last week in a review of our thoug...
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Jizzy's back rockin the Love/Hate way before heading off to pastures new

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TO describe Jizzy Pearl's career as varied in terms of the acts he's been involved with is an understatement - but he is wrapping of...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Rock 'n' rollin; heavy fuggin' metal from Chrome Division

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THIS is not a side project of Shagrath, this is not death metallers blowing off steam - this is Chrome Division laying waste to preconceptio...