LA’s Automatic venture into the cold British shores, coming to Manchester for their second UK date of the current tour. Braving the cold and the almost inevitable rail delays due to Northern Rail’s inability to organise a piss up at a brewery, our travelling gigaholic heads over for a night of rather more melodic entertainment than some of my more recent gigs. At least it’s warm in the YES basement!
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The HU have been causing quite a stir over the last couple of years, enjoying the fruits of a pretty damn successful social media campaign that’s launched the likes of themselves and Bloodywood into notoriety in the West. As a big fan of odd leftfield music, Jase Walker couldn’t resist getting himself along when their current tour rolled into Manchester…
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When Kent-based Collateral started out, they were known as the Angelo Tristan Band, with frontman Angelo and bass player Jack. Since then they have worked tirelessly to grow the band and their fanbase and are developing a reputation for a must-see live band. In a former life, Maria G reviewed the ‘4 Shots’ EP and described it as “comfortingly familiar yet new and fresh and makes me want more”. Well, now she has more, in the form of their debut self-titled album which is out on 21 February via Roulette Records…
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From the very first impression looking at the cover art of this album you know you are in for something that will be relentless. Although our man John B’s second impression from the cover was that the album was probably power metal. It was not. Instead, what he got was a wonderful heavy rock or alternative metal album. There are a lot of different influences in this album, hints of a few different styles, that come together well making a final product that will easily fit into many people’s collections. It bridges a few lines that make this fit nicely into a lot of playlists.
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‘Fist To Face’ by Holycide is something of a missed opportunity. The sophomore album by these Spanish lads is politically minded thrash and the cover alone is enough to promise a rousing call to arms for any metalhead who’s been feeling particularly angry about the state of the world since 2016, but instead it’s a bit… dull. The picture of the President being beaten in the face by a deranged mutant cyborg man is the most striking thing about it, the music itself is sadly rather forgettable. It might boast the most violently anti-Trump artwork since that Municipal Waste shirt went on sale, but alas that’s the most interesting thing about it.
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