The opportunity to see this would be David O’Neill’s third castle gig over the past few years, Thunder and Black Stone Cherry at Caerphilly Castle being the others. Supported by one of the hardest touring bands from South Wales and a “new band” this was a bill too good to miss. One of the nicest days of the summer helped, given south-east Wales has been under a veil of cloud for the majority of August.
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The other day, Jonny B spent a good while procrastinating by reading up on tautological names, that is things that are named in a way that two differently sounding parts are synonymous (but of course you know that). Take the River Avon, for example, where Avon is an old Celtic word for river, leaving you with “River River”. What he didn’t expect was for this to be relevant for an album review this week, but life moves in mysterious ways. When an album release from a band called Metalsteel crossed JB’s path, it caught his attention as it was yet another example of a tautological name, and because it’s a pretty badass name for a metal band. So hedecided to dive in and find out just why Metalsteel have been ‘Forsaken by the Gods’…
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YOU WANTED THE BEST! YOU GOT THE BEST! THE HOTTEST BAND IN THE WORLD… KISS!
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ÜS industrial metal pioneers Ministry and hardcore legends Converge will co-headline Damnation 2022 on the festival’s return to Manchester next November.
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Having voted ‘Conspiracy’ as his album of the year in 2019 I David O thought: “great, new music”! He has to say that, reading the press release, he felt a bit disappointed to find only two new songs on the album, with several “re-visioned” tracks from ‘Conspiracy’ and several “live” tracks had me on a downer. Then he listened to the album…
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