Sometimes a band and a release just come out of nowhere and simply take your breath away that it’s an obfuscating wonder as to why they dwindled in anonymity prior. Australia’s Grey Waters are one such band, laying down a hefty gauntlet with this, their debut EP Below The Ever Setting Sun.

Now here’s an odd yet interesting idea from Peter Gabriel, one of the most recognisable voices of the last forty plus years – Scratch My Back. Essentially, it’s a covers album but with a rather engaging twist. Every re-interpretation is backed by an orchestra. No guitars, no drums and certainly no synths. So if you’re looking [...]

It’s a night of no frills metal brutality here – straight to the point, straight for the jugular. British act Divine Chaos commences proceedings with their angular riff driven metal, all replete with some massive old school thrash influences. There’s a heady dosage of ambition in their delivery, with Path To War being a particular [...]

Initially, The Black Procession tour’s line up was a slightly divisive one, with some disagreeing on Machine Head’s support line up. But when Scottish bruisers Man Must Die take to the stage to commence the proceedings all those reservations are dispelled. For a band that is largely unknown to the crowd, they come out all [...]

30 Seconds to Mars played the O2 Dublin 26th February 2010 supported on the night by Dublin band Fox Avenue and Los Angeles band Street Drum Corps. For a small band Fox Avenue played the still-gathering crowd with all the confidence of a well known band, at one stage giving a shout out to their [...]

Gorilla Manor is the début album from Silver Lake five-piece Local Natives. The album saw its U.K release on the 2nd of November 2009, and its U.S release on the 16th of February 2010. Backed by a significant amount of blogosphere hype, this first album has a lot to live up to, and thankfully it [...]

It’s interesting to hear an album from places in the world that you wouldn’t normally expect a metal album to be created.  I don’t mean that to sound narrow minded, but to hear an album with the quality of production and arrangement that Need from Greece have put their name to, I wonder if there’s [...]

This self titled album does have shades of rock intensity about it in its rawly rendered guitar sounds, but its most notable quality is its quiet, subtle and sombre nature.

In the space of merely an EP comprising of only three tracks Nottingham’s Alright The Captain have rattled the cage enough to have earned your undivided attention with their meandering instrumentalism.

Oh marmite, there’s nothing quite like it, is there? That said HIM really have become exemplary icons of the phrase in the last few years. They have hordes of die hard fans worldwide, who with remarkable vehemence lap the band up and hang on every one of front man Ville Valo’s words. But on the [...]