Music constantly evolves. For every album that lasts forever, there are thousands that ten years after their release sound dated and old. The world goes past them and that is the natural way of things. However, it doesn’t stop people clinging to the past. You just have to bring up a band like Bring Me the Horizon to a group of diehard metal fans and see the reaction. ‘That’s not metal!’ blah blah blah. All of this ignores the fact that it is without a doubt metal, it is just the next stage in a constantly evolving sound.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Live Review: While She Sleeps and Cancer Bats w/ Hundreth and Oathbreaker
The ABC is crowded with an unusual audience as While She Sleeps and Cancer Bats roll into town. There’s the heavy metal fans, the ones I recognise from countless gigs in Glasgow and will see at countless more. There’s the scene kids, who travels in packs and who I may well have seen before, but blend into one giant blob of baseball caps and shorts. Then there’s the new folk, the people who look slightly out-of-place and aren’t really into heavy metal. However, they have come out tonight because bands like While She Sleeps are getting big and it is awesome to see.
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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.
Sharon Osbourne and Rock and Roll’s Problem
Towards the end of last week, I made the mistake of stumbling into the comment section of a post on Metal Hammer’s Facebook. Anyone with any experience of that horrible place, will know it tends towards the unpleasant, filled with trolls trolling trolls and people generally acting like dickheads. However, on this particular comment thread people were throwing around an accusation that I have seen many times before and yet still get pissed off at.
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Halestorm – Into the Wild Life
If history suggests anything, it should suggest that Halestorm are not the band for me. Actually, it suggests a lot more than that, but for the sake of this review that’s stick with it. On the surface its middle of the road radio rock and the first time I heard them that’s exactly what I thought. However, a couple of years after that first listen, I still find myself going back. Because as much as Halestorm haven’t reinvented the wheel, the wheels they are making are full of the kind of big choruses that it’s hard to reject.
Gallows
Losing key members of a band is always tricky. In the case of Gallows, it arguably knocked their career back several years. To the NME crowd who had embraced them, Frank Carter was the band, without him they may as well not exist. However, that didn’t stop them releasing an awesome slab of hardcore punk in 2012. For their fourth album, Desolation Sounds, they have trimmed down even further, losing their second Carter, but that doesn’t mean they are not in the mood for kicking some serious arse.
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