Provided you haven’t been living under a rock for the past couple of years, chances are you’ll have at least heard of Nova Twins or saw their name pop up somewhere. For Jase W, his first contact with them was a feature on Bring Me The Horizon’s 2020 EP, ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ on the track, ‘1×1’ and he got hs first taste of their live show back in 2021 as the opening act for Enter Shikari’s ÜK tour on their Manchester date.
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Monk has been to Milton Keynes. Once. He went to see Marillion play in a field that passed itself off as a stadium… and that wasn’t yesterday. And, to be honest, since he left the next morning, our chief pack mule has never really felt any inclination to return. However, in the intervening years, MK has produced some rather damn fine rock ‘n’ roll exports, which has meant that while the boss may have no inclination to visit their birthplace they seem more than willing to head in his direction. Power duo Torus are the latest such exemplar…
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When it was announced that Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti was going to release an album of Frank Sinatra covers, many in the rock and metal communities undoubtedly drew a deep breath, scratched their receding hairlines and wondered what the actual feck to expect. Was he going to do a Pistols and punk up ‘My Way’? Was he going to replace those glorious horn sections with crashing guitars? Well, the questions were answered when Tremonti first teased the album with an incredibly faithful cover version that showed a completely different side to the man: a man dedicated and defiant in his consideration of one of the greatest showmen of the 20th Century.
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Trivium frontman Matt Heafy has long been known for his fascination with all things to do with the Samurai culture, and has played with the logos and mythos at multiple times throughout the band’s career, incorporating it into both their audio and visual imagery. So, it was perhaps only natural that, especially with the Covidications of the past two years putting most of us on hiatus, he would explore his Japanese ancestry even further, which is just what he has done with this declarative side project…
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Danny Beardsley may be best known as the guitarist in instrumental prog rock trio The Parallax Method, but that hasn’t stopped him finding his own voice, quite literally, as he has taken advantage of the Covidications of the past two years or so and the down time which which they forced him and so many other artists into enforced circumstantial changes to record not one but two solo albums. The second of these, ‘Chase The Sun’ is set to be released in just under two weeks’ time. So, that provided us with an apt opportunity to catch up with him and find out a bit more about what has been going on in his life and what the future holds.
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