After something of a lay-off due to a bad injury, The Dark Queen approached one of her old stomping grounds with a mixture of apprehension, excitement and fear as she prepared to reacquaint herself with the live force that is Tremonti…
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Lothar Antoni, original lead singer with German heavy metal veterans Trance, has died after a long illness.
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The Liverpool gothic alt-pop trio, fronted by former Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster frontman Guy McKnight, took us into the realm of a ‘Negative Utopia’ with the release, at the end of last month, of their latest EP , from which this sees them take a massive bite of the musical apple (sic).
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Stacked, absolutely fucking stacked. There is legitimately no other way to describe this tour’s lineup. The Devil Wears Prada fully capitalise on their jumps in popularity with another headline stomp around Europe that arguably moves them out of the shadow of supporting Landmvrks last year and into similarly sized venues in their own right. Not only that but American synthy metalcore outfit Kingdom Of Giants, Aussies Ocean Grove and tied off with sparkly metal band, SENNA. What an unreal selection!
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Sure, what else would you be doing on a dark, blackened Sunday evening in the dark, blackened side streets of a dark, blackened city but sitting upstairs in a dark, blackened venue enjoying some dark, blackened heavy metal? Not much, really… which is why Monk uncurled himself from his sleeping bag under the bench in the corner – well, he did feel like he’d been living here for the weekend, as this was his third gig here in as many nights – dusted down his battered leather jacket, hit the bar to drain the remains of last night’s left over JD and adopted his usual pose beside the sound desk for what promised to be a special collision of black metal forces with one of the Celtic giants of the genre riding into battle with his English counterparts…
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