Avantasia – Forum, London – 16th April 2019

Tonight’s show was an early start – 7.30pm on stage. That’s not so the band can have an early finish but because they play long sets – almost three and a half hours tonight. That’s a pretty impressive set length and is typical of Tobias Sammet’s whole approach to Avantasia …

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MAZIAC DROP TRACK AND ANNOUNCE ALBUM PLANS!

MAZIAC step up with the release of their stunning track, Escapism, taken from their explosive forthcoming new album, Forged, which lands on Friday 5th July.   With an empowering and emotional sound that bonds aggression with melancholy, MAZIAC take no prisoners. Rendering influence from alternative rock, modern prog and metal, …

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Cornwall Rocks – Breaking the Sound Barrier!

Brand new three day festival to be launched later this year….. Solid Entertainments is delighted to announce that Cornwall Rocks will be held at Tencreek Holiday Park in Looe on 15th, 16th and 17th November 2019  The line-up for our first rock festival in Cornwall had to tick all the right boxes.  With The Quireboys, Diamond Head and Massive Wagons headlining plus fifteen other very different, but …

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Falling Eden – Our Time Is Coming

Our Time Has Come sums up Falling Eden perfectly now they have released their debut album that has taken a few years to see the light of day. The Crewe/Stoke On Trent based 5 piece have penned 9 songs that hit hard due to a very in your face production. …

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Some Time Today – Interview

I finally managed to catch up with Some Time Today after their gig at The Shipping Forecast in Liverpool on 13th April 2019. A band that I believe have so much potential. We talked about the band, the new EP, Beth Olive, future plans, and Finchy having to leave the …

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Oceans Apart – Interview

Emerging tunesmiths OCEANS APART are lighting up the scene with a sound that has already racked up favourable descriptors likening them to You Me At Six, Deaf Havana and Don Broco. The band have just released a new single, Talk Of The Town, which is backed by a stunning video. …

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Through The Noise – Dualism

Through The Noise  are a five piece Hardcore Metal band from Malmo in Sweden. Formed in 2013, the band boast a unique raw and aggressive sound, very similar to Linkin Park and Sworn Amongst, a band who I recently reviewed their latest release ‘Reclamation’. Dualism is the second album from …

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Mad Spanner – Life Absurd

There must be something other than water in the River Severn as it flows through the normally sedate Shropshire town of Shrewsbury to addle the brains of Mad Spanner when they came to write their latest album, the aptly titled Life Absurd as it seems to have turned them into …

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