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Manchester Archive
Gone Til Winter – The First Season
Posted on May 10, 2012 | No Comments
Manchester’s Gone Til Winter are a female fronted band whose “The First Season” is actually not too bad. Female fronted bands have some unique problems that their all male counterparts do not. For one, many see female fronted bands as marketing gimmicks: pretty faces and...
Decapitated, Aborted & Betraeus @ Moho Live, Manchester
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No Comments
Decapitated, Aborted & Betraeus At Moho Live, Manchester – February 27th 2012 I love the Moho as a venue. I love any venue that you have to go downstairs to enter. This particular basement is unique to most as it has a staircase in the...
Evile, Cerebral Bore & Savage Messiah – HMV Next Big Thing
Posted on February 26, 2012 | No Comments
Evile, Cerebral Bore & Savage Messiah HMV Next Big Thing – The Ritz, Manchester 11th February 2012 A lot has happened in twenty five years. For one record label this has included unleashing early extreme metal on the world, including many recognisable names like Napalm...
Biohazard, Heights, Lionheart & Dripback @ Club Academy, Manchester
Posted on February 8, 2012 | No Comments
Biohazard, Heights, Lionheart & Dripback Club Academy, Manchester – Tuesday January 31st 2012 The long awaited return of Biohazard was one of the first big tours I had marked down for the year. A new singer, new fire on the back the excellent “Reborn In...
Spires, Incassum & Sworn To Oath At Manchester Alter Ego
Posted on December 18, 2011 | No Comments
There is something in the Manchester Metal scene that it is becoming something quite special. This tour has been gaining impressive reviews and slowly building their reputations from separate ends of the metal spectrum, the Manchester duo Incassum and Spires were set and rearing to...
Shades of Avalon at Manchester Academy 5/12/11 and Roadhouse 10/12/11
Posted on December 13, 2011 | No Comments
Taking to the stage like a longboat to frozen water, Manchester’s melodeath brutes Shades of Avalon played two well known Manchester venues in the same week. Citing honourable influences such as metal and beer among bands like Amon Amarth, Children of Bodom and Immortal, although...
Defenders Of The Faith III Tour – Manchester 03/12/11
Posted on December 11, 2011 | No Comments
Five bands from across the world join forces to bring the third instalment of Metal Hammer‘s Defenders Of The Faith tour in full heavy metal mode. A nearly-full room in the Manchester Academy was locked and loaded for the battle. Consisting of members Tommy Helmet...
Within Temptation And Anneke Van Giersbergen At Manchester Academy 09/11/11
Posted on November 26, 2011 | No Comments
The Manchester Academy floor was filled with the lucky spectators who were able to get their tickets for this sold out show for the power symphony that is Within Temptation. The only space that could only be seen was the small space of either left...
Opeth & Pain Of Salvation At Manchester Academy 11/11/11
Posted on November 20, 2011 | No Comments
It was a damp and dreary Manchester evening, to be expected at this time of year, in particular in the North West. Brightening the miserable November evening and to mark the joyous occasion of having released new records this year, a duo of Swedish titans...
Betraeus “Towards The Sun” EP Launch Party
Posted on November 19, 2011 | 5 Comments
Things are brewing in the Manchester Metal Scene and it is going to make its mark in the UK metal scene very soon. Team TINAS was sent on a mission to document the “Towards The Sun” EP Launch Party of Manchester metal colossus Betraeus. The...
The Defiled, Revoker & Murder FM At The Roadhouse, Manchester 02/11/11
Posted on November 16, 2011 | No Comments
Camden Town high flyers The Defiled, Welsh rockers Revoker and Texans Murder FM invaded The Roadhouse in Manchester and when you hear these names, TINAS could not resist! Murder FM made their mark on the scene not too long ago with their industrial rock influences...
Volbeat & Black Spiders At Academy 2, Manchester
Posted on November 4, 2011 | No Comments
Volbeat & Black Spiders At Academy 2, Manchester Friday 28th October, 2011 The sense of anticipation and impatience was tangible at the doors of Manchester Academy 2 as the crowd was going to be embraced with some good rock and metal, and beer or two,...
Wolfcrusher, Kaitain, The Threat & Septic Enema At Club Academy, Manchester
Posted on October 29, 2011 | No Comments
The Manchester Metal Scene is rising, and is getting recognised more and more by the minute. Marking their album launch of their stunning debut “Virgin Tapestry” and breathing from their recent Bloodstock Festival New Blood stage performance that has grabbed the attention of walking life,...
Firewind & Wolf At Moho Live, Manchester
Posted on September 24, 2011 | No Comments
As tight as a can of sardines, Moho Live was filled, surprisingly quickly in anticipation of power metal, destruction and guitar shredding. Lots of it… To begin the night was Swedish heavy titans Wolf. Fresh from their sets performed at this year’s Hammerfest and Bloodstock...
TesseracT, Chimp Spanner & Uneven Structure at Manchester Academy
Posted on September 19, 2011 | No Comments
The Lowering The Tone tour rolled into Manchester with its unique blend of progressive, experimental metal and “Djent”. There was an air of anticipation for the good night of metal that lay ahead. As we had experienced at numerous previous gigs here, it may get...
Colonel Blast, Cancerous Womb, Diascorium, Dyscaphia, Magpyes, Foetal Juice At Retro Bar, Manchester
Posted on June 19, 2011 | No Comments
Condate Records Sunday Split Roast – Retro Bar, Manchester, 5th June 2011 Everything about this whole idea of the “Split Roast” I like. The EP is awesome but the whole philosophy behind the release seems a really cool idea. With the EP only costing a...
Tangerine Dream Announce Exclusive One-Off Show “The Gate Of Saturn”
Posted on April 23, 2011 | No Comments
Tangerine Dream, seven times Grammy nominated pioneers of electronic music return to the UK for an exclusive one-off show on 28th May at The Lowry in Manchester.
Black Label Society & Godsized In Manchester
Posted on March 1, 2011 | No Comments
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,...
The Kerrang! Relentless Energy Drink Tour in Manchester
Posted on February 24, 2011 | No Comments
Without a care in the world, a full range of fans flooded the venue on this particular sold-out night. They pushed their way into the front and in anticipation of the bands performing. For a person like myself who hasn’t been confronted regularly with this...
Josh Gilbert of As I Lay Dying talks to ThisIsNotAScene.com
Posted on December 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Sabrina Ramdoyal caught up with Josh Gilbert of As I Lay Dying before the show at the Academy 2 in Manchester on their recent headline tour. Can you introduce yourself to our readers and what do you do in the band? My name is Josh...