Opinion

  The AOR night begins with Vega. It has been almost two years since I last saw them at AOR Firefest in Nottingham Rock City. Vega opened with “Kiss of Life” from their debut album, noted as an AOR masterpiece. They captured an great 80’s feel with crowd pleasing songs …

I spoke to Mia Klose recently and asked her a few questions about her music and upcoming shows including Hard Rock Hell AOR, NLC/RACPA festival and Sweden Rocks Festival. First of all, for anyone who hasnt listened to you before, how would you describe your music? It’s 80s inspired classic …

I caught up with the Estrella lads before their gig at The Vale in Glasgow, the support band were soundchecking, so out we braved it, into the freezing Scottish, arctic like night. [youtube http://youtu.be/7Cte87nbQp4]   You can also read the full review of the gig itself right here  Estrella are: …

It was a freezing, Glasgow March night at The Vale. I was there to witness, for my very first time, Aberdeenshire band Estrella perform a full set. I had seen them perform a 25 to 30 minute set at the Highway To Hell 3 competition last year, but this was …

Last year I interviewed Darrin Richards from Chemicals of Democracy at Hammerfest IV and one year later I caught up with Darrin again, this time also with JQ Bass and their new guitarist Sammy Damaxx. With line-up changes, their upcoming album having its UK release 25 March and 2 sets …

Playing Stage 2 on the Thursday evening at The Goddamn Electric added themselves to the long list of bands to grace the stages of Hammerfest over the past five years. Formed only in 2010 and naming themselves after the Pantera song ‘Goddamn Electric’ their debut album Snake Bite is due …

A cold Saturday night sees me standing outside the sold out O2 ABC venue in Glasgow to witness what was originally the last date on Wilko Johnson’s Farewell tour, but due to demand to see the Canvey Island bluesman one final time

While those with a lot less sense were out ‘drowning the shamrock’ and “celebrating” what laughingly passes for the ‘national saint’s day’ in this corner of the world, by getting as hammered as possible as quickly possible and then hammering the living daylights out of each other in an unprecedented …

As their first full UK tour supporting Breed 77 drew to a close, we took the opportunity to speak to imembers of Seven Deadly, managing to catch up with guitarist H Virdee (first speaker) and drummer Rob Hicks, both formerly of Panic Cell, before we were also joined by singer …

As they hit their adopted home town on their headline tour, we caught up with Breed 77’s guitarist Pedro Capparos López on their tour bus, ahead of the show and the relaease of thier new album ‘The Evil Inside’ to talk about everything from using Pledge Music to dirty finger …

Flamenco-metal is what we have come to enjoy tonight, but not before we have taken the time to check out the other three bands on tonight’s bill at The Garage.   First up are Seven Deadly, a melodic thrash metal band. There are some familiar faces of metal in this …

As I sit here nursing my coffee whilst causally gauzing out at the sunlight illuminated fog which currently shrouds Hollywood in its intimidating mysteriousness I am trying to move mind into gear and stop gauzing  out of the window and towards finding a starting point for this review. This actually …

Tonight’s bill is a typically eclectic one – ranging from classic thrash through dark sludge to ambient black metal – ensuring a healthy crowd drawn from a wide spectrum of Belfast’s metal community, with the added advantage of it being the beginning of (for many) a long holiday weekend helping …

Jeff ‘Oly’ Olson is best known as the original drummer with Trouble, one of the groups which shaped the sound of modern doom metal. Having left the band in 2008, he recently has re-united with his former bandmates, this time contributing keyboards to their forthcoming new album, ‘The Dark Riff’. …

After apparently calling it quits two years ago, German power metal maestro Tobias Sammett delivered a pleasant surprise to his legions of fans when it was revealed that there would, in fact, be a new Avantasia studio album, ‘The Mystery Of Time’, which is being released at the end of …

Falling Red are back with a short 6 date UK tour, after a rock style lifestyle of opening for Steel Panther and playing at some renowned venues. Since they last played a headline show in Manchester they have definitely upped their game in terms of performance and presence. They have …

First up tonight are a fairly small British band – Sacred Mother Tongue.  If you’ve never listened to them then you really should – as an indication of what to expect, their guitarist Andy James has been nominated for the Dimebag Darell Shredder award in this year’s Metal Hammer Golden …

First up tonight was Mia Klose. I’d purchased her album before Christmas and enjoyed her 80’s rock sound so was looking forward to seeing how she’d be live.   clearly a lot of other fans were keen to see her too as there was already a good crowd by the …

We asked British Rockers Voodoo Vegas some questions about the band and their new album…. For anyone who isn’t familiar with Voodoo Vegas, can you tell us a bit about the band? We’ve got Nick and the lovely Meryl on guitar, Ash on bass and Matt on drums. I do …

Due to my having to work tonight, I approached the venue a mere 5 minutes before the doors open, so the line is stretching away from the door, around the corner and up the hill clearly this show is highly anticipated by the locals. Unfortunately by the time I’ve interviewed Devildriver …