Dave Bedlam

Dead City Ruins sign International Record Deal

   Dead City Ruins with help from Rick Butterworth of Third Verse Entertainment, have signed an international record deal with German metal/rock label MetalvilleRecords. That’s right, The’re now label buddys with Ugly Kid Joe!!! After label owner Holger Koch saw Dead City Ruins play in Cologne he fell in love with the album and wanted to …

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Portrait “Crossroads” Album Review

  Portrait are a Swedish metal outfit who formed in 2006 (slight confusion here as some sites state 2004 however 2006 is sited on their official Metal Blade page) and are made up of Per Lengstedt on Vocals, Christian Lindell and David Olofsson on Guitars, Mikael Castervall on Bass and …

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Killer Be Killed – Killer Be Killed

  Now where the fuck to start with this one? I guess first of all we need an introduction to Killer Be Killed they are comprised of guitarists Max Cavalera (Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy and formerly of Sepultura) and Greg Puciato (The Dillenger Escape Plan), bassist Troy Sanders (Mastodon) – all …

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Album review – Anti-Mortem – New Southern

Anti-Mortem (precede death in Latin) were formed in 2008 in Chickasha, Oklahoma by brothers Larado Romo (Vocals) and Nevado Romo (Guitars) along with Zain Smith (Guitars), Corey Henderson (Bass) and Levi Dickerson (Drums) and spent their early years turning the Smith family barn in to their own hand built concert …

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BLACKBERRY SMOKE ANNOUNCE OCTOBER UK TOUR

Hotly-tipped southern rock outfit, BLACKBERRY SMOKE have confirmed a string of UK shows for this Autumn. The Atlanta-based outfit unleashed their UK debut album, ‘The Whippoorwill’ in February, gatecrashing the UK album chart at #30 and selling out their first UK tour even with a string of upgraded venues. The Guardian gave …

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Mos Generator and Ripple Music Announce New Project!

Mos Generator and Ripple Music Announce New Project on the Heels of their Latest Album, Electric Mountain Majesty! Classic Mos Generator Album Songs for Future Gods gets the complete Tony Reed Makeover for Reissue on Ripple Music!   ********************************************* “If there’s such a thing as fusing some soul into a doom palette, MOS …

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Crobot Releases Self-Titled EP May 13

  WHO THE F**K ARE CROBOT? “..the American version of Wolfmother, a Kings of Leon on speed”  – Centre Daily Times (PA) “Crobot blew the minds of everyone in attendance…epic display of cosmic awesomeness.  My face was so f**king melted that I must’ve looked like Joan Rivers stepping out of a …

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Nervosa – Interview

I had the great pleasure of corresponding with new Brazilian all female Thrash outfit Nervosa and we talked about their debut album, day to day life in Nervosa, plans of touring Europe, their reaction on getting signed by Napalm and a few other things along the way…… When founding Nervosa …

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Nervosa – Victim Of Yourself

First of all an introduction as I am sure there may well be a few people out there who are unfamiliar with Nervosa, well Nervosa are a three piece all female Trash metal outfit hailing from Brazil. Fernanda Lira takes the vocal and bass duties with Prika Amaral on guitars …

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Hornet announce ‘Let’s Get London Rocking’ Shows

                    Hornet re-energise rock ‘n’ roll at its unpretentious best with a fusion of punk and metal having been described as a ‘21 year-old AC/DC with Henry Rollins on vocals!’ Hornet, consisting of Joe Thompson (Vocals), Tollef Rikje-Pearson (Guitar), Max Thompson …

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