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August Burns Red/ERRA/Currents – Leeds, Beckett Students’ Union – 28 November 2019

Because of his insatiable hunger for metalcore with a proggy flair to it, today’s gig finds our Jase in Leeds Beckett Students’ Union for August Burns Red’s ‘Constellations’ anniversary tour. Their more recent work, with ‘Phantom Theory’ being an album that he’s grown to love, is a showcase of what aggressive metalcore has to offer.

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Steve Hackett – Manchester, Bridgewater Hall – 26 November 2019

There are not many artists who can legitimately be their own support act, having such strength of material from both a solo and band point of view, yet that’s what our resident gigaholic in the form of Steve Hackett, touring to play the whole of Genesis’ ‘Selling England By The Pound’, whilst also celebrating the 40th anniversary of ‘Spectral Mornings’. The venue is once more the Bridgewater Hall, a building with renown for the quality of its harmonics and acoustics, so it’s over to Manchester once more for an evening of much top-notch guitar wankery.

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Northlane/Polaris/Void Of Vision – Manchester, Academy 2 – 27 November 2019

Northlane are a band that have gone through an interesting evolution, growing from their roots as a metalcore band into what is now almost an entirely different beast in its own right. Their latest album, ‘Alien’, showcases their latest change in sound by bringing in some heavy Industrial influences by way of heavy synth and, in some cases, dubstep inspired grooves.

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A/’68/False Heads – Coventry, The Empire – 22 November 2019

It’s fair to say Coventry has something of a weird relationship with turn of the millennium rockers A. Back when the band played in 2002 they were shot at with air rifles (among other incidents), and now 17 years later the band arrive sans keyboards as their player is struck down with a stomach bug on the eve of the show. But all that is to be dealt with later – right now punters are steadily filing into The Empire in Coventry, brought out to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the headliner’s excellent second record, ‘A Vs Monkey Kong’.

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Avalanche – ‘Sent From Hell’ (Sliptrick Records)

Any rock ‘n’ roll band emanating from the deepest southern part of planet Über known as Australia almost inevitably will draw comparisons with AC/DC, and also run the risk of being written off as copycats of the Young brothers and their distinctive sound. But, then, another set of brothers (no names, no pack drill, but you know who you are) have made quite a decent career for themselves ploughing that same furrow. Which brings us neatly to relative new kids on the block Avalanche, who turn the clock right back to the mid-Seventies and ‘DC’s rawer, punkier roots with this, their debut mini-album.

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