Album Review: PRIMAL FEAR - Apocalypse

01. Apocalypse

02. New Rise

03. The Ritual

04. King Of Madness

05. Blood, Sweat, & Fear

06. Supernova

07. Hail To The Fear

08. Hounds Of Justice

09. The Beast

10. Eye Of The Storm

11. Cannonball

12. Fight Against Evil (Bonus Track)

13. Into The Fire (Bonus Track)

14. My War Is Over (Bonus Track)

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2018, album, Apocalypse, Frontiers, Gamma Ray, Heavy Metal, Mat Sinner, Power Metal, Primal Fear, Ralf Scheepers, review, Sinner, Traditional Metal

Movie Review: FINDERS KEEPERS (2014)

I was having a lazy Bank Holiday afternoon and decided to browse Netflix for a Horror movie to watch. For some unexplainable reason, I decided to give Finders Keepers a whirl.

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EP Review: LOVEBITES - Battle Against Damnation

01. The Crusade

02. Break The Wall

03. Above The Black Sea

04. Under The Red Sky

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Album Review: THE DEAD DAISIES - Burn It Down

01. Resurrected

02. Rise Up
03. Burn It Down
04. Judgement Day
05. What Goes Around
06. Bitch (The Rolling Stones cover)
07. Set Me Free
08. Dead And Gone
09. Can't Take It With You
10. Leave Me Alone

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2018, album, Burn It Down, Classic Rock, Hard Rock, John Corabi, Motley Crue, review, The Dead Daisies, The Scream

Album Review: BAD WOLVES - Disobey

01. Officer Down

02. Learn To Live

03. No Masters

04. Zombie (The Cranberries cover)

05. Run For Your Life

06. Remember When

07. Better The Devil

08. Jesus Slaves

09. Hear Me Now

10. Truth Or Dare

11. The Conversation

12. Shape Shifter

13. Toast To The Ghost

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2018, album, Bad Wolves, DevilDriver, Diamante, Disobey, Divine Heresy, Doc Coyle, Eleven Seven Music, God Forbid, Hardcore, In This Moment, Metal, Metalcore, Tommy Vext

Gig Review: SKID ROW + BLUE NATION + WESTERN SAND at KK's Steel Mill, Wolverhampton (UK) 24/08/2018

To be completely honest, I never thought I'd bother going to see Skid Row again, unless they happened to be at a festival I was already at. The brutal truth is that I'd lost interest in them. I think it's best to explain where I was at as a fan before writing this review. They used to be one of my favourite bands as a teenager, and I absolutely love their first two studio albums and their covers EP. I also really like their much-maligned Subhuman Race album. It was a shift in production values, and a lot of fans didn't warm to it as they felt that Skid Row had 'gone Grunge'. I still think it's an amazing record, and it's certainly aged well. 

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TV Series Review: MARVEL'S CLOAK & DAGGER (Season 1)

Cloak & Dagger were always strange superheroes, and they certainly weren't mainstream ones. I think that the unbelievable success of the Marvel Universe movies is great because the powers that be are taking risks on lesser known characters such as this pair, and the show has a decent budget along with a fantastic team to bring Cloak & Dagger to life on our television screens.

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EP Review: CHELSEY AND THE NOISE - Blank Frames

01. Mountain

02. Castle

03. Thick - Clear

04. Depth Denying (Underwater)

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Album Review: SKINDRED - Big Tings

01. Big Tings

02. That's My Jam

03. Machine (feat. Gary Stringer from Reef)

04. Last Chance

05. Tell Me

06. Loud and Clear

07. Alive

08. All This Time

09. Broken Glass

10. Saying It Now

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Album Review: SEVENDUST - All I See Is War

01. Dirty

02. God Bites His Tongue
03. Medicated
04. Unforgiven
05. Sickness
06. Cheers
07. Risen
08. Moments
09. Not Original
10. Descend
11. Life Deceives You
12. The Truth

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2018, album, All I See Is War, Alternative, Lajon Witherspoon, Morgan Rose, Nu Metal, Sevendust

Festival Review: BLOODSTOCK 2018 (Friday 10th August)

After going to Bloodstock for the first time last year and having an awesome time (read my review here), I decided to go again. I'm not a massive fan of Death or Black Metal, so in the past there hasn't been enough bands on the line-up that I love enough to warrant going. After all, festivals aren't cheap, and anyone who says that they go purely for the atmosphere is a tit with more money than sense. The line-up has to justify the trip, and this year it was Friday that had the most that matched my musical tastes. Let's face it, Judas Priest is the greatest Heavy Metal band there has ever been (read my review of their latest album, Firepower, here), so their inclusion alone meant that I had to go.

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Album Review: ORANGE GOBLIN - The Wolf Bites Back

01. Sons of Salem

02. The Wolf Bites Back

03. Renegade

04. Swords of Fire

05. Ghosts of the Primitives

06. In Bocca al Lupo

07. Suicide Division

08. The Stranger

09. Burn the Ships

10. Zeitgeist

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Album Review: BURY TOMORROW - Black Flame

01. No Less Violent

02. Adrenaline

03. Black Flame

04. My Revenge

05. More Than Mortal

06. Knife of Gold

07. The Age

08. Stormbringer

09. Overcast 

10. Peacekeeper

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2018, album, Alternative, Black Flame, Bury Tomorrow, Extreme Metal, Hardcore, Metalcore, Music For Nations, review, Tech Metal

Gig Review: DANZIG + PARADISE LOST at O2 Brixton Academy, London (UK) 07/08/2018

Danzig and Paradise Lost on the same bill? How could I not make the trip to dirty London for this! They're two of my favourite bands, and both masters of their genres. I've seen Danzig a couple of times before, the last being in 2013 in Wolverhampton. It was his 25th anniversary tour and he brought Doyle on-stage to blast through some Misfits songs. 

Paradise Lost (Photo by Rich Hargrave)

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Album Review: MADBALL - For The Cause

01. Smile Now Pay Later

02. Rev Up

03. Freight Train

04. Tempest

05. Old Fashioned

06. Evil Ways (feat. Ice T)

07. Lone Wolf

08. Damaged Goods

09. The Fog (feat. Tim Armstrong)

10. Es Tu Vida

11. For You

12. For the Cause

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Album Review: POWERWOLF - The Sacrament of Sin

01. Fire & Forgive

02. Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend

03. Killers With the Cross

04. Incense & Iron

05. Where the Wild Wolves Have Gone

06. Stossgebet

07. Nightside of Siberia

08. The Sacrament of Sin

09. Venom of Venus

10. Nighttime Rebel

11. Fist By Fist (Sacralize Or Strike) 

(Bonus Disc)

01. Epica – Sacred & Wild

02. Saltatio Mortis – We Drink Your Blood

03. Caliban – Kiss of the Cobra King

04. Battle Beast – Resurrection By Erection

05. Heaven Shall Burn – Night of the Werewolves

06. Kadavar – The Evil Made Me Do It

07. Kissin' Dynamite – Let There Be Night

08. Mille Petrozza & Marc Gortz – Amen & Attack

09. Amaranthe – Army of the Night

10. Eluveitie – Nata vimpi cvrmid / Ira Sancti (When the Saints Are Going Wild)

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Album Review: DEE SNIDER - For The Love Of Metal

01. Lies Are A Business
02. Tomorrow's No Concern
03. I am The Hurricane
04. American Made
05. Roll Over You
06. I'm Ready
07. Running Mazes
08. Mask
09. Become The Storm
10. The Hardest Way
11. Dead Hearts (Love Thy Enemy)
12. For The Love of Metal

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Album Review: HALESTORM - Vicious

01. Black Vultures
02. Skulls
03. Uncomfortable
04. Buzz
05. Do Not Disturb
06. Conflicted
07. Killing Ourselves To Live
08. Heart of Novocaine
09. Painkiller
10. White Dress
11. Vicious
12. The Silence

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2018, album, Female fronted, Glam, Halestorm, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Lzzy Hale, review, Sleaze, Traditional Metal, Vicious

Album Review: OTEP - Kult 45

01. Hail To the Thief

02. Halt Right

03. Molotov

04. Said the Snake

05. Undefeated

06. Trigger Warning

07. Cross Contamination

08. Shelter In Place

09. Boss

10. To the Gallows

11. Sirens Calling

12. Invisible People

13. Be Brave

14. Wake Up (Rage Against The Machine cover)

15. Feral Oracle (Bonus Track)

16. The Tribe Speaks (Bonus Track)

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