The Mike James Rock Show caught up with Howard Jones of Light The Torch and formerly Devil You Know, Killswitch Engage and Blood Has Been Shed to talk about Mental Health, getting back up again and of course their new album. It was recorded in March during their run with Norma Jean and In Flames
It’s time for some cheese. Written by Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik and recorded at the request of Sylvester Stallone as the theme music for Rocky III, “Eye of the Tiger” is easily the best known song by Survivor. It was nominated for a pair of awards, in 1982 and 1983, narrowly missing out. First
If you don’t fancy seeing the band formerly known as Devil You Know in support of In Flames and Norma Jean, Light The Torch have announced a run of headlining dates that will take place immediately after that European Tour. These shows will take place at the end of this month, April, with support bands
The Black Map of the UK Underground Metal Scene reaches week 40 as we head from Leeds to Hull and Downtempo Doom crew Black Tongue. The quartet call their style “Doomcore” and have previously been signed to Century Media though there are distinct elements of Black Metal, Death Metal, Deathcore and Doom in their crushingly heavy
Devil You Know were forced to rename the band they had built from the ground up after drummer John Sankey (of Devolved fame) exited the group in 2016. Some form of legal issue being the reasoning. Having created a pair of albums in 2014’s “The Beauty Of Destruction” which won them a coveted Metal Hammer
Light The Torch (formerly Devil You Know) have released a guitar and bass playthrough video for their latest single “Calm Before The Storm” from their new album “Revival”. The album is out now via Nuclear Blast. You may recognise the guitarist as former All Shall Perish man Francesco Artusato and current Bleeding Through bassist Ryan Wombacher.
Led Zeppelin? There is a chance the could squeeze a couple of tours in before retiring. Plant & Paige seem to spend more time on tit-for-tat pettiness these days though. In the meantime, their legacy stands strong and their inspiration and influence is clear for all to see. Indeed, without Led Zeppelin there would be
Seeing as it’s all hallows eve… “Surprise! You’re Dead” by Faith No More covered by two of the more brutal bands around, Revocation and All Shall Perish! Hernan “Eddie” Hermida (now of Suicide Silence) vocals suit this one down to the ground!
You get bands… and then you get bands. Faith No More have long been one of those bands. For each of the songs on this playlist there were many choices, Hellaween and Five Finger Death Punch have both done decent versions of “From Out Of Nowhere” for example, to name just one and Machine Head
