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Xentrix/Sinocence/Animator – Belfast, Voodoo – 14 May 2022

Xentrix/Sinocence/Animator – Belfast, Voodoo – 14 May 2022

Posted by | May 16, 2022 | , ,

This was supposed to be the second of two dates on the island of Ireland by Lancastrian thrash veterans Xentrix, making a welcome return to these shores after far too long away… but the curse of Friday the 13th had put the kibosh on the first show in Dublin, after their van took it upon itself to lock all their gear in the back. Fortunately for the Belfast crowd, however, their quest to find a locksmith north of the border proved a lot more fruitful than that down south and so, in the best showbiz tradition, this three-band thrash fest went ahead, thus warming the cockles of our hardened metallic hearts on what turned out to be a surprisingly chilly spring Saturday night.

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Al-Namrood – ‘Worship The Degenerate’ (Shaytan Productions)

Al-Namrood – ‘Worship The Degenerate’ (Shaytan Productions)

Posted by | May 16, 2022 | ,

If ever an album was appropriately titled, it is this one. To use the term “degenerate” about this one-man anti-Islamic black metal project from the devoutly Islamic Saudi Arabia, a country with one of the worst human rights records in the world when it comes to religious intolerance, is possibly one of the biggest understatements in the global history of understatements when it comes to how its progenitor would be regarded in his homeland. And yet, here we are, with the latest album from an artist who takes the term underground to a whole new level that not even Lara Croft could unearth, having never played a live gig or even revealed his true identity because to do so would result in summary execution.

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Von Hertzen Brothers/Ethyrfield – Bristol, Thekla – 11 May 2022

Von Hertzen Brothers/Ethyrfield – Bristol, Thekla – 11 May 2022

Posted by | May 15, 2022 | ,

The last time the fraternal Finnish prog rockers were in the ÜK was pre-2020 on the back of their seventh album, ‘War Is Over’, which David O’Neill thought was absolutely stunning and led to him seeing them at Download and Bristol in 2018. With further writing in 2020 leading to the latest offering ‘Red Alert In The Blue Forest’ and the tour, another trip to Bristol was nailed in so he and three other Steelhouse regulars piled into his car for a trip to an ex-boat, for that is what Thekla is – although he has to admit it was his first time there.

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