After a triumphant performance at Steelhouse festival in 2018, Glasgow blues rock outfit King King returned to Cardiff on a feelgood day in the capital after the start of the Six Nations tournament which saw Wales beat a rather lacklustre French team and Scotland destroy Italy in Edinburgh despite a late comeback. So, all the Celts were looking forward to a feelgood gig in one of the best medium sized venues in South Wales.
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Ghost’s 2018 album ‘Prequelle’ cast the narrative back to the Middle Ages, and to the ravages of the plague on Europe. Far from being a sombre look at a disease which killed 30 – 60 per cent of Europe’s population, the record was a headlong dive into party-ready arena rock for the band, tracks like ‘Rats’ and ‘Pro Memoria’ loosely using the disease as a backdrop to a party so insane it would likely be your last. You’ll find absolutely none of that on Mastiff’s utterly devastating ‘Plague’.
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Gojira have announced three headline dates for this coming summer.
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If there’s a better way of fighting off the winter chill than cramming into a small venue to watch some of the finest punk around, we’ve not found it. That’s exactly the situation Rich H found himself in at the tail-end of January, Birmingham’s The Sunflower Lounge playing host to the North American invasionary force of Drug Church and Single Mothers for a sold out show in the bar’s basement venue.
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When a band is described to soon be taking over their home country and around the globe with energetic death metal – you know it’s something that is going to be utterly ferocious and one to look out for. Deserted Fear are a trio from Germany, since forming in 2007 they have slammed out three filthy albums and a demo. The new album is no exception to this, consisting of 13 songs which are bursting with deep hatred, anger and power. For fans of Heaven Shall Burn, Decapitated and Obiturary.
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