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Metalwings – ‘A Whole New Land’ (Self-Released)

Metalwings – ‘A Whole New Land’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Jun 16, 2021 | ,

Now it’s pretty safe to say that Jonny B quite likes a bit of symphonic metal. Hell, when Nightwish played at Bloodstock, he and his mate spent the entire event telling everyone who would listen that “Nightwish have done more for music than The Beatles.” Okay, so partly that was to get a rise out of people, but also, JB does listen to more Nightwish than The Beatles, so take that as you will… The issue with the symphonic metal genre, though, is that it’s completely dominated by a handful of greats and those that try to breakthrough into the scene have a huge leap to be able to get noticed.

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VIDEOS OF THE WEEK – PAIN/POWERWOLF

VIDEOS OF THE WEEK – PAIN/POWERWOLF

Posted by | Jun 13, 2021 | , ,

As the rays of light at the end of the dark tunnel that has been the past 14 months of isolation and generally being shit upon from great heights grow brighter day by day, the rock ‘n’ roll year that is 2021 has somehow crept, crawled and sneaked closer to its halfway point, with its DMs firmly planted in the mire and muck of the chaos around it, with a healthy slew of new music pinging itself our way, and especially the continuing tsunami of submissions we receive for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ award… Yes, as we’ve said on multiple occasions, one constant throughout the vagaries of inconsistent and often hard to stomach lockdowns is the amazing level of adaptive creativity that bands and video directors the length and breadth of the Überverse have continued to show, often in the most adverse of circumstances.

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‘Grammar Free In the U.K. – The Lockdown Letters’ – D&D Philpott (Self-Published)

‘Grammar Free In the U.K. – The Lockdown Letters’ – D&D Philpott (Self-Published)

Posted by | Jun 12, 2021 | , ,

Following on from 2015’s ‘Dear Mr. Kershaw: A Pensioner Writes’ and 2018’s ‘Dear Mr. Pop Star’, bonkers compendiums of letters supposedly written by a disgruntled pensioner to various pop and rock stars, berating them for lyrical mishaps or song title inaccuracies, along with their genuine replies, comes a third instalment, ‘Grammar Free In the U.K. – The Lockdown Letters’. This time said disgruntled pensioner Derek Philpott with his son Dave don safety pins and bondage trousers to focus their frustrations purely on punk bands.

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Blitzkrieg – ‘Theatre Of The Damned’ (Mighty Music)

Blitzkrieg – ‘Theatre Of The Damned’ (Mighty Music)

Posted by | Jun 11, 2021 | ,

Blitzkrieg are one of those bands that epitomize the story of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal: formed just as the movement was hitting its stride, thanks mainly to the early commercial success of Saxon, snapped up by an independent label in turn formed to champion the nascent new genre, then going on to enjoy some initial success and then be torn apart by internal divisions, later re-emerging, on something of a stop-start basis as NWoBHM underwent various generational revivals…

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