Category: Live Review

“Hey! Kikikuloa! No flippies off the dock! You could get hurt! Let the Master show you how it’s done!”

The story goes that while planning anniversary shows around their sophomore album “Never, Neverland” in 2025, Canadian Thrash Metal legends Annihilator were offered the opportunity to celebrate the 35th anniversary of their debut album “Alice In Hell“. An exclusive one off performance of the record in full at Topfest 2024 in Slovakia was booked with

A sweltering Saturday evening in early May makes it feel like the summer has reached England’s green and pleasant land early this year, especially when you’re passed by someone in a bikini as you’re queuing to enter the iconic Camden Underworld in the heart of London. We’re joined by Jordan Bell from Full Stride PR

It’s a Friday night at the start of May and The Lounge Bar in Alton, a venue run by the powers behind Radar Festival, is calling like a siren’s song with promise of beer and mosh pits. Fortunately they have a mighty fine selection from Signature Brew, including Lo-Fi alcohol free pale ale so seeing

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,