The Altamont Never Say Die! Tour has a lot of gumption putting seven bands – and good bands at that - onto a single bill. It’s almost too much to take in, a full five-solid hours of murderous intent, spat out from the stage with all the ferociousness of a rutting rhino.
Support bands have wet [...]

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Brian ‘Head’ Welch
Save Me From Myself
Driven Music
3 November 2008
by Hugh Platt
Let’s just make sure we’re all up to date with the story of Brian ‘Head’ Welch, shall we?
Boy meets other boys. Boys form band. Band helps kick start trendsetting but later much-derided music genre. Band gets big. Band gets stratospheric big. Boys celebrates by getting [...]

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Bullet For My Valentine are playing in front of about 9,000 people. Slayer did the same thing last month but with a much stronger supporting line-up and over two nights. Some might say there is no justice.
The fact of the matter is that Bullet For My Valentine are a Top 5 charting band in the [...]

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Guns N’ Roses
Chinese Democracy
Geffen
24 November 2008
by Raziq Rauf
How much idle conjecture has there been over Chinese Democracy? Axl Rose has had 17 years to turn this vanity project into absolute gold. It has to be a masterpiece. It has to be the best album of the 21st century.
I say “vanity project” because Rose is the [...]

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It’s election night in America and on televisions across the world, but in Kentish Town, London it’s all about Funeral For A Friend.
The Forum is packed full and despite the chilly climes outside, there is steam rising from the sweaty shoulders of the moshpit, leaving the venue rather humid.
Mixing classics like ‘Escape Artists Never Die’ [...]

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This is not just another sausagefest. You’ll never see this many girls at a heavy metal show until next time Bring Me The Horizon roll into town.
Of course, some might argue that BMTH are more metalcore than heavy metal or that they’re not even a little bit metal – it’s just fashion something or other.
It [...]

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Who said Slayer were old school? There seemed to be an Unholy curse on our technology! Our video camera chewed up our tape and our camera packed up halfway through. Hugh Platt still managed to remember some…

With a beard so mighty it increases his hair swing per headbang by at least 40%, Johan Hegg’s Swedes [...]

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Viking Skull
Doom, Gloom, Heartache & Whiskey
Powerage Records
03 November 2008
by Hugh Platt
While they might’ve started as a joke spin-off band from Corby bruisers, Raging Speedhorn, Viking Skull have long since mutated, growing strong following the patronage of one Bam Margera, and the recruitment of his brother, CKY sticksman Jess Margera, for tub-thumping duties. Doom, Gloom, Heartache [...]

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The Bronx
The Bronx (III)
10 November 2008
Wichita Recordings
by Danny Montana
The Bronx stick an extra couple of Xs on the end of their name most times. I reckon they’re kisses because you just can’t help loving this band.
This is the third self-titled album and it explodes with riff-rolling lead single, ‘Knifeman’. It seems like Matt Caughthran still [...]

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Cradle Of Filth
Godspeed On The Devil’s Thunder
Roadrunner Records
27 October 2008
by Danny Montana
Following on from 2006’s rather mediocre effort Thornography, Suffolk’s premier extreme metallers are back with a different line-up to go with yet another epic, conceptual foray into dark and dramatic musical territories.
Using the concept of French, 15th century serial killer Gilles De Rais provides [...]

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