Satisfying hunger is an unbeatable feeling! This past Sunday night, a metal-starved London crowd was able to do just that, when Trivium, Heaven Shall Burn, and Malevolence blew the roof off Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo after the good old Covid [...]
Grindcore outfit Napalm Death from England exploded onto the stage and started the show off with their belligerent, chaotic sound. Vocalist Mike “Barney” Greenaway was very animated during every song, moving to his own beat most of the time. [...]
If there was a city that needed some cheering up tonight, it is London. It’s cold here, and it has been for several days. We’ve had snow, the temperature is sitting below zero and the pavements are frozen. Traveling any distance on foot [...]
The first time Alter Bridge found themselves on Irish shores, back in June 2017, they were already thirteen years deep into their career. Within the intimate setting of the Olympia Theatre, their Dublin debut became gig of the year material, followed by [...]
Sometimes it’s good to have a guilty pleasure day and cheat on a diet, procrastinate on the couch or watch some cheesy, ludicrous power metal concert. On the 1st of December, I chose to do just that by putting aside my dungeon atmospheric black and [...]
It’s often I see these days that concert legs in Europe often have double headliners or even more bands traveling together. The bang-for-buck ratio here is very good in most cases, but when you see lineups like the one on the 27th of November in The [...]
It is widely believed to have been the American/Canadian band, Steppenwolf, who popularised the term, “heavy metal.” The phrase can be found on their 1968, self-titled album, among the lyrics to Born to Be Wild. In [...]
Last week, Swedish progressive metal band Soen began their first-ever North American tour, promoting their most recent album Imperial. This band has been active for about 12 years now, so it’s quite surprising that it has taken them this long to [...]