It’s been raining all damn day but that shouldn’t stop you from climbing out of your grave and getting to get to a gig. After all, it’s Friday night, it’s been a long week and its time to let of some steam. Tonight’s destination is the very well run grass roots venue that is The
A sold out show is always a thing of beauty and it’s always nice to see a band of legendary stature paid the complement. Crowbar are in the Big Smoke, at a venue which we know all too well. The last time we were at The Dome in Tuffnell Park a dude sipping from a bottle
It may sound like a cliché but having followed from the meteoric rise of Loathe and Harbinger on Metal Noise since 2017, the next band on that list is Australian Progressive Metalcore outfit Polaris. We’ve followed them since the pre-release singles for “The Mortal Coil” dropped, witnessing them at venues that have gradually increased in size
Slow Pain. Cold Death. The fourth show of a headlining European tour that sees Dallas Texas natives Frozen Soul appear in our capital city follows a pair of sold out ones in Holland and Belgium is finally upon us… and it feels long overdue. Their monumental rise has been nothing short of phenomenal, the clamour
The first gig of 2024 for Metal Noise finds us heading into the Big Smoke to the iconic Camden Underworld for a night of headbanging ecstasy and the first headlining European tour run of Danish masters Cabal. Dubbed “The Great Decay Tour“, it has brought them to the United Kingdom for a trio of shows
They say that all good things must come to an end; so as the sand slips though the hour glass we’re going to enjoy one last day of Techabilitation at the hands of Tech-Fest and then sit back and watch as Simon Garrod’s new band Eschalon grow wings. Tech-Fest has been an adventure for us since 2017,
After a night where the first five bands brought their A game to The Hairy Dog in Derby, the standard has been set for others to maintain and make the final Techabilitation a momentus occasion to send Tech-Fest off in style. Ten bands are primed and ready to do battle with an audience suffering from
There is a certain irony that just as we arrive in Derby for what could be the final Tech-Fest event in Techabilitation at The Hairy Dog, “Beginning of the End” by Spineshank should surface on the Spotify playlist we’ve been listening to on the drive. In truth it’s not so much the end as a
The Impericon Never Say Die Tour has long been an annual celebration of all things heavy not to be missed which sees some well established acts bring some of the lesser lights of heaven across Europe, setting venues ablaze in the process. Usually a mix of Hardcore, Deathcore and Metalcore, previous years have seen the
“You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes” ~ Morpheus, The Matrix