In terms of heavy music, Liverpool seems to have become a bit of a relic of the North-West touring circuit in recent time. Seldom is Liverpool graced with a gig of this calibre (the odd Def Leppard gig in the Echo not with standing), the overwhelming majority of bands hitting Manchester to cover this portion [...]
Author Archives: Frank Ryan
Ahhhhh, “djent”. We hardly knew ye. Doomed from the start, wasn’t it? Whenever an exciting new movement begins to rise within heavy music, it’s only a matter of time before it comes bastardised. It’s almost an industry standard. Days Of The New, Limp Bizkit and Asking Alexandria are all guilty of this, taking the visionary [...]
PlanetMosh’s – Frank, catches up with Between The Buried And Me on tour in Manchester. Check it out in the video below! [youtube=
Frank of PlanetMosh catches up with Jake Bowen of Periphery at Manchester on 5th October 2012. Check out the video below! [youtube=]
Both the evolution and diversity of progressive metal is displayed in full effect at the Manchester Academy tonight. The rise of “djent” cannot be understated since one of tonight’s co-headliners first rose to prominence, themselves the product of more traditional progressive metal combined with an unmistakeable Meshuggah influence, opening the floodgates for a hoard of [...]
Refused – Manchester Academy, 14th August 2012
