Bill Leeb (Front Line Assembly)

Interview with Bill Leeb (Front Line Assembly)

Below is an interview that took place at the start of August, just after the release of Front Line Assembly’s new album ‘Echogenetic’ (for which you can read the review here). Due to personal commitments, I’ve only just got around to finishing typing it up, but here we are! –##– BL : Hello? MH :…

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Halo Of Blood - Children Of Bodom Album Cover

Children of Bodom – Halo of Blood

For all the mega-selling, stadium filling, world beating acts in the metal community like Slipknot heavy metal will never stop needing the mid-tier, old reliables such as Children of Bodom. Bands like Bodom are the lifeblood of our genre and, albums like ‘Halo of Blood’ are the lifeblood of these bands. However, don’t confuse the…

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Press To Meco - Affinity EP Cover Artwork

Press To Meco – Affinity EP Review

Press To Meco, the three-man band based around Croydon formed in 2010 recently released a new EP titled ‘Affinity’. There is no doubt these boys have come out of their shell, experimenting after the success of their first self-titled EP. They performed at Download Festival this year after wowing the Red Bull competition judges with…

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Sylosis

Sylosis involved in a traffic accident

In news that’s just been announced it seems that Sylosis have been involved in a road traffic accident whilst out on tour in the states with Triviun and Devildriver. DevilDriver wrote on Twitter “Here’s what I know @sylosis was in a RV accident last night” Three are currently in hospital and it seems the official…

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Butserfest 2013 – Review

Opening up the mainstage is local band 13:32 (6) who despite their incredibly young age play a set of decent hard rock tunes and even throw out a cover of Avenged Sevenfold’s “Unholy Confessions”. Following them The Bottom Line (5) fail to impress as they just sound like a poor Blink-182 tribute act whilst over on the Glory Or…

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Alter Bridge – Fortress

Despite the fact that their previous album ABIII was a critical and commercial success, and they have toured arenas (and sold out the vast majority of them) over the last couple of years, in some ways Alter Bridge still feel like something of a well kept secret within the rock community. Whereas most casual music…

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