With Swedish meatballs on the menu in the SSE Arena, multiple fans clad in chequer-plate vests filing their way inside, and enough canisters of pyro fluid to give Guy Fawkes a serious hard on, tonight could only mean one thing – Sabaton had brought their Great Tour to town. After a successful summer that included…
With just two UK dates announced on the Megadeathpunch Tour, fans made the trek from all corners of the country and beyond, to witness what will surely end up being one of the tour line-ups of the year. With Five Finger Death Punch and their special guests Megadeth and Bad Wolves on the line-up we…
Slipknot headlining The O2 Arena has always felt like a question of when, not if. Having conquered Wembley Arena five years ago, and then playing two nights at Alexandra Palace the year after, the beginning of 2020 finally saw the Iowan masked juggernaut roll into North Greenwich to take over London’s biggest arena. Before Slipknot,…
The Key Club is something of a staple in the north of the United Kingdom. Many bands of varying degrees of notability and notoriety have trodden the boards of the hallowed stage and created raucous rackets through the PA, generally going down as one of the better nights of their various tours.
As 2019 draws to a close and the decade of the 2010’s starts drawing its final breath, we can end it knowing that the state of British Metal is in very safe hands. Bills like this don’t come along very often which makes tonight’s show and on a larger scale this tour all the more…
Clutch, like ZZ Top before them, seem to be a huge cult band who are long overdue to burst well and truly into the mainstream consciousness. Since forming in 1991, the Maryland four-piece have released a string of critically acclaimed albums and played on some of the biggest and best-known stages in the world. Their…
Machine Head‘s rebirth amongst the metal community began in 2003 with their career saving Through The Ashes Of Empires and their career exploded in 2007 with the release of The Blackening, winner of countless “album of the year” and “album of the decade” awards granted by everyone from Metal Hammer on down. Fast forward another…
A Devildriver live show is always something for most metal fans to get excited about. Whilst in my opinion their recent records have not been as enjoyable as the first three they’re still a force of nature in the flesh. The prospect of seeing them on the same tour as the mighty Machine Head and…
For months, UK metal fans have been eagerly awaiting the start of December 2011 for two particular tours; The Eighth Plague Tour, featuring Machine Head and Devildriver amongst others, and the third Metal Hammer Defenders Of The Faith Tour, headlined by Trivium and with a fine supporting cast of special guests In Flames, Ghost, Rise…
Anticipation for Alter Bridge’s Wembley Arena show had been high for a long time in the lead up to the gig. The news that broke approximately two weeks ago that the show was being recorded for Alter Bridge’s second live DVD just cranked the excitement (and the expectation levels) up even further. With this in…
