Monday, May 26, 2014

Three fives roar as AeSect, By Conquest or Consent and Katabolisis level the Limelight

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THE Distortion Project - in the safe hands of James Loveday - has the knack of picking just the right line-up, with just the right balance, ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Belfast's summer of metal just got better - Soulfly announce July Limelight date

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THIS summer, of the year of 2014 is turning out to be 'The Summer of Metal' after another band announced a Belfast date - the might...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Alive and kicking for Dublin - Stillroom produce radio-friendly rock that all can enjoy

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HAILING from deepest darkest Dublin, Stillroom have been knocking around the scene for a good few years, honing and refining their brand of ...

When a review is not a review...Dare, Crash and Worldsend

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Written by Jonny ONE of the first things I learned as a trainee journalist many moons ago was that as soon as you use the first person yo...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Heroic tales and massive musical muscular landscapes from Sabaton

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HISTORIAN Peter Hart tells the historic sweep of battles such as the Somme and Gallipoli, interspersing each tome with the words of the indi...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Thieving your soul, begging for your ears & overall swinish rock behaviour - Astralnaut's latest aural assault

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WE all love Astralnaut, don't we? If you don't prepare to re-evaluate as the Armagh-based five-piece release today (May 14th) their ...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Brewing up a storm in County Antrim: The Brew & Baleful Creed

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THERE are moments when reviewing gigs that you end up standing with mouth agape wondering just what the hell you are watching...and just how...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Monte Pittman - the man behind Madonna and delivering the metal with his album The Power Of Three

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ON his latest release Pittman give it the full Monte as the Power of Three (review here ), and he's played with the 'Queen of Pop...

Killing all in their path NYC style with Defyed, Altus and By Any Means give a Belfast welcome for Ikillya

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SETTING out for The Distortion Project Saturday show two of our editorial team were intent on some pints plus some hardcore and metal. Havin...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Just why Onslaught will welcome under 18s into soundcheck

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COME July 14th The Distortion Project will present Onslaught, Artillery and Hatriot in Limelight2 in a veritable feast of thrash - so much s...

Avatar deliver a dark carnival of the apocalypse

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IN the mid-20th Century writer Ray Bradbury published the seminal dark fantasy book, Something Wicked This Way Comes, about a carnival of ni...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Brazilian black metal triumph for Patria on Individualism

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BRAZIL. Football, samba, carnivals...and black metal. The south American economic powerhouse has been something of a cradle of extreme metal...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Edgy Edguy capture hearts and minds on Space Police - Defenders of the Crown

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TEN albums in and Edguy get short shrift from mainstream rock media in the UK, with barely a mention in the top selling magazines and not a ...

Brewing up a storm at The Diamond - The Brew set for NI

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THEY may be one of the best UK rock bands you've never heard of but The Brew have been racking up the plaudits and raising the roofs acr...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Second Slayer show confirmed

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DUE to phenomenal demand reads the advertisement, but that was almost a certainty when it comes to Slayer playing Belfast's Limelight1! ...
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Thursday, April 24, 2014

As tickets are about to go on sale for Belfast, Slayer release free download track

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RIGHT - you're all up for the scramble to get tickets to see Slayer for June 30th at the Limelight1 when they go on sale tomorrow. Just ...

Ferocious foursome flay Metalfest IV with furious metal at Diamond Rock Club

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Review by Zakk WITH the boss away reviewing this for Metal-Rules.com [read it here ] it has been left to me to sum up Metalfest IV on Mon...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Cheap thrills are sometimes the best as heritage and healthy new classic rock rock the Diamond

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SOMETIMES the gigs you expect the least from are the most enjoyable, maybe the low expectations mean that you enjoy them because the expecta...

Slayer second date in Belfast...again...

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OKAY - calm down people! The venue have NOT confirmed a second Slayer date after our earlier announcement of the Limelight1 of their 30th Ju...

The (Kerry) King has risen! Belfast's resident speed metal thrashers are back on 30th June

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SLAYER - the name synonymous with speed metal thrash, the wicked infusion of west coast US Punk, metal and speed that sticks a middle finger...