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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01/05/2015 0

The Falling

It takes a certain kind of film to release on the same day as something like Avengers: Age of Ultron. You either have to be a little bit insane or be peddling something so completely different, that you believe your audience will find it. The Falling definitely falls into the second category, as Carol Morley‘s film looks at a fainting epidemic in a 1960’s girls school in England.

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29/04/2015 0

Avengers: Age Of Ultron

It’s fitting that the newest Marvel film sees it’s biggest stars coming up against an ever multiplying robot, which is set to take over the world. It in many ways bares resemblance to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is slowly spreading into every corner of our entertainment world and is probably making more money than God. The jewel in the crowd of that universe is The Avengers and with the first movie playing a big part in raking in that money, it’s safe to say the pressure was on for Joss Whedon and co with the follow-up.

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23/04/2015 1

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

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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20/04/2015 0

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.

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17/04/2015 0

Fast and Furious 7

Roughly ten minutes into Fast and Furious 7 The Rock and Jason Statham are having a good old-fashioned rumble. The Rock grabs the Stath and for all intents and purposes Rock Bottoms him through a glass table. Following this, The Rock and one of friends are blown out of a window (which is several stories up) and land on top of a car, causing it to crumple in on itself. No one dies in this exchange and it’s the moment I got on board with Fast and Furious 7.

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16/04/2015 1

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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15/04/2015 0

John Wick

To enter the world of John Wick, you need to accept one very simple fact. Mr Wick is a fucking badass. Get that into your head and you will be fine, because this is revenge porn that isn’t pretending its central character is anything less than a super hero. Wick’s nickname is the boogeyman and every time he steps foot in a room, every person in it hopes that he isn’t there for them.

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14/04/2015 1

Good Kill

Drones are a hot topic at this point in time, so it’s hardly surprising that they are making their way onto the big screen. Good Kill follows the life of a drone pilot, someone who gets to stay at home in beautiful old America and conduct his business from an air-conditioned booth in Las Vegas. Sadly, being away from the actual conflict zone doesn’t mean that the war’s effects are any less real.

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13/04/2015 0