By Glen Parkes | Jace Media Music Six years is a long time to wait for a new Hatebreed album, but the Connecticut outfit have never been a band to chase trends or soften their edges. Their ninth studio album finds them doing what they do best: delivering a relentless collision of [more…]
Review by Glen Parkes With All Is Beautiful… Because We’re Doomed: Circularity, We Came As Romans take circularity and turn it into the very foundation of a 23-track release. Arriving on November 6th via SharpTone Records, this expanded collection is far more than a handful of bonus tracks bolted onto the 2025 [more…]
Review and photos by Ken Jackson The Witching Hour at the Harlington ,Fleet . Alice Armstrong’s Witching Hour turned The Harlington in Fleet into a delightfully spooky celebration of live music, friendship and Halloween fun. Following last year’s success, Alice brought the event back for a second time and it already feels [more…]
Rising UK Pagan/Viking metal force LN have announced their first-ever UK headline tour, ‘Into The Further’, taking place across March and April 2027, alongside the first details of their forthcoming EP, ‘Coven’. Following the release of their acclaimed Völuspá EP, featuring the powerful singles ‘Shield Wall’, ‘Fenrir’ and ‘Draugr’, LN are preparing to [more…]
NIGHT ON THE SUNNEW EP WHATEVERLIKE OUT NOWLISTEN HERE RELEASE LYRIC VIDEO FOR ‘ANTI-KAREN’ WATCH HERE Experimental grunge rockers Night On the Sun have released their new EP Whateverlike. You can listen to it HERE. The band have also released the lyric video for EP opener ‘Anti-Karen’, which is a heavy, groove laden slab of fuzzy [more…]
Review and photos by Gary and Callum Roebuck Friday 23rd October ‘26 “Holyrude comes to Bathvegas” We have an intro of “Skin and Bones” as this 6 piece hit the stage with barely an inch left to play around as a brand new line up with new singer “Ksymena” playing her debut [more…]
ARTIST – MASON HILL ALBUM – WORLD SO WONDERFUL REVIEWER – GRAEME WRIGHT When Scott Taylor left Mason Hill in 2023 for health reasons the band cancelled all engagements and entered a hiatus period. Many of us were worried that this would be it for the band, and it was radio silence [more…]
Rock BMG Released – October 23rd 2026 Review By Smudge Smith Never heard of Nicotine Dolls but from what I have read the singer/guitarist Sam Cieri was on America’s Got Talent in 2022 but refused to take to part in the live shows stating that the show’s producers wanted to change the [more…]
Kozak Metal Independent Release Release date – Soon Review By Smudge Smith Well, this is my first exposure of Kozak Metal which is a heady mix of blackened death metal and folk. It is the brainchild of Ukrainian underground metal ‘legend’ Anatoliy Blyashuk and is the first instalment of a series of [more…]
Review By Mark Pitfield | Photos By Matthew Pitfield On Thursday 22nd October, Reef rolled into Lincoln, and I was proud to have my son Matthew (15, our photographer) with me to shoot the night. The Drill Hall is our home venue and a great one for a night like this. We [more…]
FRIDAY 12 – SUNDAY 15 AUGUST 2027 ***BAND ANNOUNCEMENTS*** The wait is over! Firevolt is pleased to announce the first 15 bands for 2027 to whet the appetites of hard rock fans everywhere. Now in its sixth year, the festival continues to grow exponentially, and the anticipation is for that trend to continue [more…]
30th October 2026 – Manchester Rebellion Words and Pictures by Phil Ingham The sizeable crowd shuffling into Rebellion the day before Halloween had come for a line-up that promised plenty of opportunities to go bump in the night this spooky season. They were not to be disappointed. The night opened with Bristolian [more…]
By Glen Parkes | Jace Media Music Six years is a long time to wait for a new Hatebreed album, but the Connecticut outfit have never been a band to chase trends or soften their edges. Their ninth studio album finds them doing what they do best: delivering a relentless collision of [more…]
Review by Glen Parkes With All Is Beautiful… Because We’re Doomed: Circularity, We Came As Romans take circularity and turn it into the very foundation of a 23-track release. Arriving on November 6th via SharpTone Records, this expanded collection is far more than a handful of bonus tracks bolted onto the 2025 [more…]
Review and photos by Ken Jackson The Witching Hour at the Harlington ,Fleet . Alice Armstrong’s Witching Hour turned The Harlington in Fleet into a delightfully spooky celebration of live music, friendship and Halloween fun. Following last year’s success, Alice brought the event back for a second time and it already feels [more…]
Rising UK Pagan/Viking metal force LN have announced their first-ever UK headline tour, ‘Into The Further’, taking place across March and April 2027, alongside the first details of their forthcoming EP, ‘Coven’. Following the release of their acclaimed Völuspá EP, featuring the powerful singles ‘Shield Wall’, ‘Fenrir’ and ‘Draugr’, LN are preparing to [more…]
NIGHT ON THE SUNNEW EP WHATEVERLIKE OUT NOWLISTEN HERE RELEASE LYRIC VIDEO FOR ‘ANTI-KAREN’ WATCH HERE Experimental grunge rockers Night On the Sun have released their new EP Whateverlike. You can listen to it HERE. The band have also released the lyric video for EP opener ‘Anti-Karen’, which is a heavy, groove laden slab of fuzzy [more…]
Review and photos by Gary and Callum Roebuck Friday 23rd October ‘26 “Holyrude comes to Bathvegas” We have an intro of “Skin and Bones” as this 6 piece hit the stage with barely an inch left to play around as a brand new line up with new singer “Ksymena” playing her debut [more…]
ARTIST – MASON HILL ALBUM – WORLD SO WONDERFUL REVIEWER – GRAEME WRIGHT When Scott Taylor left Mason Hill in 2023 for health reasons the band cancelled all engagements and entered a hiatus period. Many of us were worried that this would be it for the band, and it was radio silence [more…]
Rock BMG Released – October 23rd 2026 Review By Smudge Smith Never heard of Nicotine Dolls but from what I have read the singer/guitarist Sam Cieri was on America’s Got Talent in 2022 but refused to take to part in the live shows stating that the show’s producers wanted to change the [more…]
