Taking Back Sunday frontman Adam Lazarra will perform his first-ever solo acoustic streaming concert, broadcasting here in the Über Kingdom in the wee small hours of Sunday 18 October. With the show starting at 2am GMT, the good news is that fans won’t necessarily have to sit up all night to catch the performance, as it will be available for one week after the initial airing.
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For someone whose early self-listening was heavily impacted by Fear Factory, Astrocreep absolutely dropped the ball and had no clue that Ascension of the Watchers existed until this latest release, ‘Apocrypha’ came into ÜR’s inbox. Fear Factory were the first bigger band our resident DJ ever paid to go and see, even! After Burton C. Bell has recently decided to focus his energy into AotW, it is probably the best time for the big lad to catch up with his work outside of Fear Factory – so, how would it sit with him?
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Based in the Scottish Highlands, Hellripper has been fast gaining a reputation for whipping up an infectious storm of blackened speed metal greatness in the spirit of old. ‘The Affair Of The Poisons’ is the second full length Hellripper album, and the first since signing to the revered Peaceville Records label.
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Eddie Van Halen, arguably the most iconic and influential guitarist of his generation, has died from cancer at the age of 65.
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On this, their second album, Swiss crüe Crown Of Glory prove themselves to be one of those bands who can easily, and seemlessly, switch between different, but related, sub-genres, from the symphonic end of the power metal mien through moments of arena-filling lighter-waving AOR anthemics to soaring melodic rock interjections which uplift and energize, showcasing the ability of a band who are more than comfortable to deliver on every level on which they seek to do so…
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