Booking bands to play on a festival line-up each year must be a bit of a headache at times. Getting the balance between the “tried and trusted”, the “young blood” and “what’s hot right now” is important, as is ensuring that the Festival doesn’t go stale by carting out the same old bands each year.
Yesterday Hard Core dropped a list of their Top 10 Metalcore bands, which you can watch here But, while it’s a decent list and the likes of Ice Nine Kills, While She Sleeps and Architects are deserving of a mention, there are some glairing admissions. So here are 5 of our own from the current
It’s a familiar scenario for most Metal Heads. You don’t intent on buying any merch but… They’re a small band, you want to help them out, the ticket was cheap… And you’ve had a couple of beers. So you buy a tee. The next time they’re in town you want to fish out that tee
There are more than a few albums out there in the big wide world with God awful production value, poor quality mastering or just plain muddy mixing quality. “The Crusade” by Trivium being a fine example. Fortunately with the appliance of science and technology in the internet age means we can go back and fix
