Frank Turner – Positive Songs for Negative People

Frank Turner has had one hell of a career since the end of Million Dead back in 2005. He has played 1708 solo shows (as of Sunday the 9th of August 2015) and released six albums. That’s not even mentioning side projects like the brilliant Mongol Horde. In that time, he’s risen from playing the back rooms of pubs to a handful of people, to selling out arenas, all seemingly off the back of word of mouth and good songs. It’s a journey that now continues with Positive Songs for Negative People.

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10/08/2015 1

Lamb of God – Sturm und Dran

If tough times create great music, then we can all be forgiven for getting a little bit excited about the new Lamb of God album. Throw in the fact that they are consistently one of the best heavy metal bands we have and Sturm Und Drang already feels like a contender for album of the year. However, after all the shit that Lamb Of God, and in particular lead singer Randy Blythe, have had to go through in the last couple of years, can it really stand up to fan’s expectations?

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29/07/2015 0

Wilson – Right to Rise

Wilson grabbed everyone’s attention with their debut album Full Blast Fuckery, a beer fuelled orgy of hard rock. Tracks like ‘Viking Pussies Fuck Off’ were perfect at catching the attention. This year they’re back with their second album, Right to Rise, which sees the band growing up and cementing themselves as one hell of a hard rock outfit.

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22/07/2015 1

Second Chances – Nekrogoblikon

Until recently my only real experience of Nekrogoblikon was on the Kerrang tour in 2014. Sharing a bill with the wonderful Baby Godzilla (now known as Heck), the not really my thing but aren’t they good live Crossfaith and the yes they are ridiculous but god they are fun Limp Bizkit, it’s safe to say they stood out. Mainly for being a bit shit. I don’t know if I missed something, but the selling point seemed to be the fact they had a bloke dressed as a goblin. And that wore thin fast.

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13/07/2015 0

Refused – Freedom

The band that changed punk rock or the ultimate sell outs. Refused are a lot of things to a lot of people, but very few can deny the power of The Shape of Punk To Come. The album which was thought to be their last was released before the band imploded in a basement in Virginia. Afterwards they declared they would never play music together again. But times change and people grow and seventeen years later they are back and not just playing shows, but releasing a whole new album, Freedom.

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03/07/2015 0

Coal Chamber

There are reunions that we all want and then there are those that just happen. I don’t want to put words in my fellow musics fans mouths, but I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in saying that Coal Chamber fall into the latter category. It may just be that I missed them first time round, I was eleven when they broke up, but I just don’t care.

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26/05/2015 0

Faith No More

Some bands are just special. They have that little bit of something that makes them better than everyone else. It doesn’t matter whether you like their music or not, you have to respect them, because they are just that good. One of those bands is Faith No More. Until their break up at the end of the 90s, they were one of the most challenging and out there bands we had. When they got back together in 2009, the question was always hanging there as to whether they could be that again. With Sol Invictus, we finally get our answer.

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19/05/2015 2

WOAHNOWS

The internet can be a bit shit. I’ve mentioned in the past how depressing going through Metal Hammer’s Facebook page is and a general scroll through Twitter can convince you that the world is going to end or that it is full of cunts. However, it does have it’s upsides and one of thoseis the way it can be used to spread the word about great bands. For example, WOAHNOWS a band that until a few days ago I had never even heard of.

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11/05/2015 0

Baby Chaos

As I was around six years old when Baby Chaos were first on the scene, it is probably not surprising that they passed me by. However, I did catch these Glasgow rockers supporting Ginger Wildheart last year and they have just today been announced as support for The Wildhearts P.H.U.Q tour in September. Such an obvious seal of approval from Ginger himself, was always going to insure I picked up their comeback album.

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05/05/2015 0

Second Chances: The Prodigy

We all have them, those big bands you know you should love, but just leave you feeling a bit cold. I have a fair few of them in my closet, bands for whatever reason I have never got or never given the time to. That’s where Second Chances come in. An article series where I will go to bands who fill this criteria and give them exactly that, a second chance. To start things off, we have The Prodigy. A band who have always gone over my head. Sure, there are some great things about them, I remember how cool and dangerous they seemed when they first broke and I was young and impressionable. But in the here and now, I just struggle to care. Even their famed live show failed to convince me when I watch them headline Sonisphere last year.

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21/04/2015 0