Metal

Featured Live Reviews 

Green Lung / Boss Keloid @ Gorilla, Manchester, 23rd November 2023

27th November 202327th November 2023 Matthew Williams Boss Keloid, Doom, Gorilla, Green Lung, Manchester, Metal

It’s a Thursday night in Manchester, and the Green Lung gig at Gorilla has been sold out for a few

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In Search Of Tone: Micah Nix & Chad Barnwell Of Temptations Wings

14th November 202314th November 2023 Josh Schneider Doom, Electric Talon Records, In Search Of Tone, Metal, Temptations Wings

Temptations Wings are a band that I first heard of through The Sleeping Shaman from a fan Aaron Ossont. I

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Featured Live Reviews 

Through The Lens: Mutoid Man / Haggard Cat @ The Bread Shed, Manchester, 9th September 2023

8th November 20238th November 2023 Lee Edwards Haggard Cat, Heavy Rock, Metal, Mutoid Man, Sargent House, The Beauty Witch, The Bread Shed, Through The Lens

As the UK went through a heatwave, temperatures certainly soared at The Bread Shed in Manchester’s city centre as The

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Review: Thronehammer ‘Kingslayer’

2nd November 20232nd November 2023 Lee Edwards Doom, Metal, Supreme Chaos Records, Thronehammer

International doomsters Thronehammer may have had a start that could have appropriately mimicked the slow crawl of the funeral doom

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Featured Live Reviews 

Mutoid Man / Silverburn @ Exchange, Bristol, 13th September 2023

16th October 202316th October 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Bristol, Exchange, Hardcore, Metal, Mutoid Man, Pink Dot, Silverburn

Having fallen head over heels in love with the latest album Mutants from offbeat, genre-defying trio Mutoid Man (well not

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Review: Baroness ‘Stone’

26th September 202326th September 2023 Rob Walsh Abraxan Hymns, Baroness, Heavy Rock, Metal, Prog

The word ‘mature’ is often a means to describe where an artist finds themselves after many years on the road

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Review: Mutoid Man ‘Mutants’

12th September 202312th September 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Metal, Mutoid Man, Punk, Sargent House

Mutoid Man are another band I was late to the party for. I picked up the second album War Moans

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Review: Stonecutters ‘Eye Of The Skull’

6th September 20236th September 2023 Spring ‘The Strutter’ Chase Metal, Stonecutters, Time Is Truth Records

Stonecutters main objective through thick and thin was to live their metal life to the fullest. And, not in the

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Review: Silverburn ‘Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation’

11th August 202325th September 2023 Lee Beamish Hardcore, Metal, MSH Music Group, Silverburn

OK, so 2020, it’s mostly a year we would rather forget. With Covid being a global situation, pretty much everything

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Review: High On Fire ‘The Art Of Self Defense’ [Reissue]

10th August 202311th August 2023 Martin Williams Doom, High On Fire, Metal, MNRK Heavy, Stoner

Way back in the summer of 2000, the much-fabled CMJ music festival came to Seattle. A music industry showcase, and

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Review: Black Sabbath ‘Paranoid’ (Quadio)

8th August 20238th August 2023 David J McLaren Black Sabbath, Doom, Metal, Quadio, Rhino Records

I’m lucky enough to remember precisely where and when I first heard what I would later understand to be Heavy

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