Tag: Jonestown

Playthrough: “Rapacious” from After Smoke Clears!

“Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!” Part playthrough and part insightful commentary, strings men Ale (Guitars) and Aaron (Bass) from After Smoke Clears return to “Rapacious“, one of the singles pre-released in the build up to their debut album ‘Edification‘ weighing anchor. The band may have missed out on some

Review: “Control” by The Aphelion

The Aphelion is the point in the orbit of an object where it is farthest from the Sun. As with most astrological terms, the word aphelion derives from Greek, apo meaning away, off, apart and Helios meaning Sun. That makes for a cool sounding band name for a Metalcore act hailing from Brighton England, who

NEWS: Miscreant Winter Quartet!

Nottingham Gloom Metal quartet Miscreant have set 11th January as the date for the release show for “Dancing With Fear“, their debut EP for Stay Sick Recordings! It’s one of four shows they have announced for the remainder of the winter and includes the one dayer hosted by Pipeline Promotions called “Darkfield II” which is

Review: “Contrast” by Core System

Hailing from northern Croatia, Progressive Metalcore band Core System formed in 2016 and comprises bassist Eugen Baranašić, drummer Luka Bergovec, guitarist Josip Novak and vocalist pairing Ivan Modrić and Lovro Špoljarić. Rather than taking a more conventional route and starting out with an EP while they found their sound, they went the whole nine yards and

Live Review: UK Tech-Fest Day #1: Thursday (Early Bird)

It’s that time of year again! Post tent pitching and first beer after a 160 mile (ish) journey it’s a sweaty affair at the Fireball Whiskey stage for the first band of our annual pilgrimage that is UK Tech-Fest! Opening the 2019 incarnation with some insane instrumental Progressive Tech-Metal, Pulse of Nature [7/10] are exactly

Review: “Purify” by Borders

Someone at Metal Hammer has got serious beef with Lincoln’s Borders. Poor reviews for both their live show with Martyr Defiled on their final run at Camden Underworld which we attended and now this very album. They’ve got it wrong. Very wrong. The person or people who did those reviews must have been a Classic

NEWS: Jonestown share “Burns Victim”!

Directed by Shaun Hodgson of Loki Films, Brighton Progressive Tech-Metallers Jonestown have unleased this music video “Burns Victim” from their brilliant sophomore album “Dyatlov” which is out now via Long Branch Records.  

NEWS: UK Tech-Fest announce second wave of bands and headliners!

After missing their announcement due to a Facebook and Instagram outage, UK Tech-Fest have announced their 2nd wave of bands! The announcement comes with news of a new VIP offering for this year and a couple of interesting exclusives! Liverpool Tech-Metallers Carcer City had announced their final EP “Silent War” and a final tour run,

NEWS: Jonestown in June and July!

Brighton Progressive Tech-Metallers Jonestown have announced 4 summer shows around a pair of Festival shows as they continue to promote the stunningly good “Dyatlov” which is out now via Long Branch Records. Check out our review of that marvel. June 27th Bristol, Gryphon 28th Hopfest 29th London, Unicorn July 4th Newark, UK Tech-Fest 5th Salisbury,

Listmania: Metal Noise Top #5 Albums of 2018!

It’s Listmania season. That time around the Holidays when anyone and everyone is throwing out their Babies with their bathwater along with their top this and best of that. We’ll be honest. We aren’t fans of these epically long lists of albums or bands or whatever. Who hasn’t got some form of ADHD in 2018