Top 20 (ish) of 2019 – Sam Savigny

Allow me, if you will, to get on my soapbox and shout about all the bloody brilliant music that has come out this year. If you’re willing to listen – not to me mind, to the music – you will find that 2019 has been one of the best years of the decade and as the 10s draw to their eventual but inevitable close, join me as we look at my top 20 (ish, I cheated) albums and five EPs of the year.

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2000 Trees 2019 – Full Festival Review

2000 Trees. Recently dubbed by Kerrang the UK’s best mid-sized festival, and once you’ve read this review of 2000 Trees 2019, you might well be inclined to agree with them. Our man on the ground Sam Savigny presents extensive coverage of all three days of the festival, following his earlier highlight summaries of Thursday, Friday…

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ArcTanGent Festival 2019 – Festival Preview

Lucky number seven so they say. Now in its seventh year as Britain’s premiere summer home for all things mathcore, progressive, explorative, post-anything, whatever off kilter subsection of music you desire, ArcTanGent has not only lived up to the audience’s lofty expectations, but it’s fair to say shattered them into slack-jawed disbelief. Having hosted a…

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Download Festival 2019 Add 43 More Bands Including Halestorm, Behemoth, At The Gates, Fever 333, Beartooth and Clutch!

Well, the Download Festival team have just reduced us all to a bunch of gibbering wrecks with their latest announcement for Download 2019. One of the greatest collection of bands ever unveiled in a single Donington announcement boasts heavy hitters in all kinds of sub-genres of rock and metal. Topping the pile (seriously, where do…

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    Conjurer – Mire

    Those who keep their fingers on the pulse of the UK’s underground metal scene would assume it’s going into cardiac arrest with the rate it’s pumping out brilliant records. After hearing Conjurer‘s 2016 debut EP listeners knew that the first full-length, Mire would be yet another palpitation for the British scene. It’s not surprising that another astonishing…

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