Once again the curse of popularity and/or the rain, struck again… after our denial of entry for TesseracT and the long, damp trudge from the Red Bull Jams Bedroom Stage to the Bohemia Stage we were more than ready for some Djent action in the...

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TINAS favourites TesseracT are a band we would never miss out on the opportunity to see live again and this year’s Sonisphere Festival was no different. We headed through the pouring rain over to the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage to catch their set…  Now,...

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Our intrepid photographer Sabrina Ramdoyal managed to run between stages to catch Kids In Glass Houses‘s set on the Saturn Stage on Saturday at Sonisphere. There are no words, we’ll let Sabrina‘s photos tell the story…

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A line that stretched as far towards the industrial sites wrapped around the Manchester Apollo. What for, you may ask. Why, it is the one and only guitar wizard and his comrades in Black Label Society of course! Arriving in support of their 2010 record,...

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Kicking off proceedings for the virtually sold-out Manchester gig, Sylosis took to the stage to warm up the crowd for the night ahead. Sylosis had filled the spot originally destined for Rise To Remain, who pulled out due to other commitments. Sylosis last played the...

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The Academy 2 was buzzing at a subtle tone for Job For A Cowboy‘s headlining tour. Playing alongside the visceral group were Tennessee’s finest Whitechapel, and British favourites Trigger The Bloodshed and Annotations Of An Autopsy. With this tour having such brutal names in the...

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After seeing TesseracT’s headline show at the Basick Records 5th Birthday Party, albeit instrumental, we couldn’t wait to see the show the following Wednesday in Nottingham. The chances were that Dan Tompkins illness would prevent him from appearing but there was still a glimmer of...

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Rock City, Nottingham was the setting for Oaf’s penultimate show on this leg of the Botheration Word Tour. I say World Tour as Stoke, London, Nottingham and Peterborough were all part of the world the last time I looked at an Atlas. Yes, that Atlas...

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So we were finally there, after two postponements due to Tom Araya’s bad back and then, ultimately, surgery to rectify his back. The show cancellations haven’t dampened the enthusiasm for, thrash metal veterans, Slayer’s return to these shores, in fact, they seem to have stoked...

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The show in question was the Infecting Nations Tour bringing a night full of neck snappingly awesome Thrash Metal from Evile, Warbringer and The Fading.

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