RIP Algy Ward
Algy Ward, frontman of NWoBHM legends Tank and former bassist with The Damned, has died at the age of 63.
Read MoreAlgy Ward, frontman of NWoBHM legends Tank and former bassist with The Damned, has died at the age of 63.
Read MoreSlam Dunk is just around the corner for what is looking to be an immensely warm and more importantly, not-rainy, May bank holiday weekend! In a bit of a change of his usual preference for all the small acts at festivals, this year’s Slam Dunk has offered our resident gigaholic Jase W a selection of bands on one of it’s main stages that barring a couple of exceptions, quite literally fits his main music preferences right now.
Read MoreLeaving work the other day, special guest reviewer Paddy Cummins remembered that a certain album had just dropped and for some reason, he hadn’t flung himself in head first yet. Little did the Ashen Reach guitarist know the impact it would have…
Read MoreNow and again something comes along that lives up to its name. And by feck and all the gods of rock ‘n’ roll, the opening riff by this hard rockin’ crue defiantly lives up to their name, as it almost blew the very woofers out of my speakers never mind shook the foundations upon which ÜRHQ stands to their very Victorian core. Talk about a declaratory introduction…
Read MoreThe Über Kingdom may have invented heavy metal, but it cannot be argued that our nasty little cousins across the pond took the genre, twisted it upon its head and put their collective feet very much to the floor when it came to thrashing it up – and it’s taken us a wee while to catch up… but, bais and gurls, have we well and truly done so? Of course we have, as this second EP from north eastern marauders Kilonova defiantly proves.
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