The Listening Booth – The Wildhearts, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Amon Amarth

Hello friends, welcome to The Listening Booth where I ramble incoherently about what I’ve been putting into my ears. It has a been week of heavy hitters as we have the return of The Wildhearts, Frank Carter continuing his journey with The Rattlesnakes and some Vikings. You probably won’t discover something new, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun all the same.

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Why Heavy Metal is Awesome!

So yesterday the Daily Mail once again ran an idiotic article about the suicide of a young teenage boy, I’m not even going to bother linking to it, because they don’t deserve the one click that would get them.  That story is obviously tragic and I don’t want to belittle that.  However, the Daily Mail chose to focus on the fact the young man was listening to Slipknot and was a ‘hardcore rock’ fan.  Now quite frankly, I am fed up of this kind of shit.  I think we all are.  However, I have written about these problems before, more times than I count.  So, rather than focusing on calling the Daily Mail cunts, which they are, I have decided instead to write about 5 ways that heavy metal is awesome.  Because in shit times, we should focus on the positives.

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Defenders of the Faith 4, Glasgow Barrowlands 15/11/2013

Image courtesy of Metal Hammer

Defenders of the Faith is becoming a yearly event that those into heavy metal do not want to miss and once again Metal Hammer magazine have outdone themselves by putting together a bill that is sure to appeal to the masses.  All this meant that when it rolled into Glasgow last Friday night it was always bound to be an occasion.

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