Live Reviews

For the uninitiated, SOS Festival is ROCKSECTOR RECORDS annual shindig, in Manchester, UK, showcasing the labels roster, as well giving a platform for emerging local talent and deserving bands from further afield. Now in its seventh year, it has steadily grown, and has firmly established itself on the UK festival …

It seems that I am destined to spend this Summer in underground sweatboxes, slowly going deaf! Tuesday was no exception, as DEMONIC RESURRECTION rolled into Plymouth’s newest venue TIKI BAR, with DE PROFUNDIS, THE FLORENTINE CAMERATA and CRANIOECTOMY. It was a ‘school night’, and elsewhere the Brazilians were being taught …

T’was a summer’s evening in balmy Bournemouth… No. It was a bloody hot evening in blistering Bournemouth! As the sun-worshipping, semi-naked lobsters left the beach in search of aloe vera, outside The ANVIL rockbar, a metallic silver van pulls up, emblazoned with the letters “B.O.A.”This can only mean one thing. …

After a huge weekend at SlamDunk Festival and the excitement from their latest album release, BURY TOMORROW set about destroying Plymouth’s White Rabbit once again. Alongside Bury Tomorrow was a set of support acts not to be missed. Main support came from French Pop Punk/Hardcore outfit, CHUNK! NO, CAPTAIN CHUNK!, …

It’s been years since I’ve been able to attend a METAL TO THE MASSES final and I am ashamed to say I forgot how awesome they are. The atmosphere is like no other unsigned gig I have ever been to! Hoards of people come from all over the various cities …

On August 7th, Bloodstock Open Air Festival will open its gates again for three days of pure Metal, in all it’s incarnations. There have plenty of announcements about who’s playing, and on which stage, but up till now the New Blood Stage has been looking pretty bare. That’s about to …

When I think of Basingstoke, metal is not one of the images that comes to mind. Before last Sunday I had never been and had never had any interest in going. That all changed when I realised that one of my favourite bands from Southwest and one of my favourite …

Depraved Plague are a four-piece death-metal band from Cambridge who started in 2010 with the aim of taking influences from the genre and giving them a modern edge with the idea that this would give them a unique sound. Their album “Systemtic” was released via Contagion Records in October 2013. …