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With the weather continuing to be surprisingly strong, despite some light showers overnight which as it meant waking up to a tent that didn’t feel like a sauna was actually quite welcome, the Saturday at Sonisphere kicked off with Tesseract on the main stage. I only caught about five minutes of them before I headed off to Bohemia, but I felt it was worth throwing in that they sounded awesome. Continue reading “Sonisphere Review: Saturday”
This was originally going to be my review of the latest Pixies album. However, I decided that was a bit boring and instead I’m doing a wider look at the idea of comeback albums. Enjoy.
The last few years has seen the idea of the comeback become a bit of a trend. With everyone from Refused to Crazy Town deciding that maybe the world needs them after all ( we really don’t Crazy Town) it’s become clear that coming back is the new black and in conjunction with that it raises the thorny issue of the comeback album. Some bands do one, some bands stay far away. One band who have recently decided to do a comeback album, although they have been touring in recent years, is the Pixies. Now I should probably say this out of the bat, I bloody love the Pixies, they are everything that a band of that genre should be and while I’m not a huge fan of that kind of music, the Pixies have a very special place in my heart and because of that I apologise for anything I say about them that sounds mean.
This was the playlist from the second week of my show on Radio ENRG, which can be heard most Friday’s at 12. I will be putting the third week up on Wednesday meaning I’ll be up to date and I can just put the rest up after the actual show I’m playing the playlist on. I hope you all enjoy.
The songs not on Spotify can be found below.
Here’s the second part of my albums of the year. You can find 20 – 16 here.
Continue reading “Top 20 Albums of 2013 – Number 15 to Number 11”
Carcass, their very name screams pure bloody metal. The British grindcore legends were favourites of the brilliant John Peel and reigned supreme in their original run between 1985 and 1995. Their return in 2007 was therefore greeted with glee while the announcement they were to write and record an album, which was released earlier this year. induced full blown delirium. With Daniel Wildling (Trigger the Bloodshed) coming in on drums and Ben Ash (Pig Iron) on guitar to join original original members Jeff Walker and Bill Steer Surgical Steel was created.
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.
Continue reading “Defenders of the Faith 4, Glasgow Barrowlands 15/11/2013”
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