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Meat Puppets/Munky – Belfast, Empire Music Hall – 8 June 2019

One advantage of Belfast is that it is a relatively small city, and easily traversable, if you plan your route in advance – something which proved to be something of a boon on this particular evening, with two gigs running (virtually anyway) back to back within a half a mile or so of each other. So, it was relatively easy for Monk to leave one as soon as the last note died in the speakers and make it to the other in good enough time to grab a beverage before the main attraction started…

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Skypilot/Zlatanera/Brethren – Belfast, Limelight 2 – 8 June 2019

On the face of it, staging your album launch gig on the same day as the majority of Belfast’s metal fans seem to have decamped some 100 miles or so to watch some outfit called Metallica play in a field in the arse end of nowhere may not seem to be the best of timings. However, a number of factors always come into play when planning anything, such as the availability of band members, other tour commitments and the release date of the album… and so Skypilot found themselves with something of a fait accompli. But, as a certain playwright wrote several hundred years ago, all’s well that ends well and, at the end of the evening, there was a decent crowd present to watch the trio officially send their excellent new ‘The Affront’ out into the big bad world… but we’ll come to that anon.

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Feradur – ‘Legion’ (Self-Released)

John Bedard wastes absolutely no time at all in telling us exactly what he thinks about this new album from Luxembourg melodeath mob Feradur, jumping right in and delivering his verdict right in the opening sentence. But, we’ll not ruin it for you, but merely encourage you to click the link to find out if he signed up to their growing legion of followers…

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Jess By The Lake – ‘Under the Red Light Shine’ (Svart Recordings)

You may already be familiar with Jess and the Ancient Ones with their brand of psychedelic rock, and if you’re not then we suggest you stop reading this right now, stick on some of their tracks and come back to this afterwards. All sorted and ready to delve deeper into the rabbit hole? Good. Here we have the solo debut of Jasmin Saarela, better known for her fantastic vocal talent with Jess and the Ancient Ones. This new project will be released under the name Jess by the Lake – why ‘By The Lake’, you ask? Well it’s pretty simple…

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