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.
Pitch Perfect 2
It has been said before and it will be said again, comedy sequels ain’t easy. Keeping what is good about the first, but not treading over old ground is a hard game to play. However, it has never stopped Hollywood churning them out at a rate of knots and with Pitch Perfect having been ten times more successful than anyone could have predicted, it is hardly a surprise to see number two hitting our screens.
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.
Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller’s Mad Max series was always the odd one out in terms of this years summer blockbusters. Going up against Marvel, The Terminator and Jurassic Park, it had almost been shoved to the side, forgotten for its more illustrious peers. Therefore, it may come as a bit of a shock that Mad Max: Fury Road stands a very good chance of being the best of them.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Adapting classic literature is never an easy game. As with all books, people have a very clear mind as to how they view the characters within them and with the classics, you also have many years of history to compete with. Therefore, I don’t know if it is an advantage or a disadvantage to me and the film, that I come into Far From the Madding Crowd with a completely fresh pair of eyes. Having never read the book or seen the 1967 version, this is my first experience of the world of Bathsheba Everdene.
Trials Fusion
A quick (and possibly silly) video about Trials Fusion. Enjoy.
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.
Unfriended
Traditional horror is basically a morality tale. Anyone who has seen the Scream films will be aware that the easiest way to survive a horror film, is to make sure you stay as far away from sex as possible. However, in 2015 that idea doesn’t really work anymore. Times are changing and horror movies need to catch up. Enter Unfriended, a horror movie for the internet generation.
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.
Ramblings About Wrestling 