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Having toured the country with the likes of Napalm Death and Raging Speedhorn, and with current single Stitch receiving heavy rotation on Kerrang! TV, Kettering's Defenstration are already making waves in the metal world. Combining the heaviness of the aforementioned Speedhorn with a melodic edg»
Halfway through the gig, I count heads. There are about thirty people in the Army & Navy tonight, to see one of the most exciting young bands in the country. Quite what that says about the apathy of today's youth, I don't know, but it's worth bearing in mind. Chlorine can't decide whether they want to b»
I wasn't really that keen on "Obsolete", Fear Factory's last full-length effort. It wasn't bad as such, but after the innovation of remix album "Remanufacture" it felt like a couple of steps backwards. Where "Remanufacture" showed us a bit of leg, "Obsolete" clamped its frig»
Hmm... once again I come away from a gig wondering whether the support bands were chosen out of a National Lottery machine. I don't think there was any method in the madness tonight. Century Vision make early Oasis noises with irritatingly whiny vocals. I'm sure they're very good, and certain are»
It's 1995, the rock world is still reeling from Kurt Cobain's death, and a new saviour is needed. Someone who can take old and turn it into new, while still retaining that essential oldness. Someone who can sound both cosily familiar and gorgeously innovative at the same time. But hey, Gavin Rossdale will do. »
Doors 8pm, the ticket reckons. So people turn up at 8pm and miss all but the last ten seconds of Scalplock. From the little I heard, they seemed to be a solid, but unremarkable, variation on mid-period Napalm Death. Next up, Defenestration. Vocalist Gen Tasker is so unlikely looking that s»
Sunna have announced the following dates, for the 2nd leg of their "I'm not touring" tour: MAY Tue 1 Oxford Zodiac Wed 2 Cardiff Barfly Thu 3 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms Fri 4 Norwich Arts Centre Sun 6 Leeds Cockpit Mon 7 Liverpool Lomax Tue 8 RADIO 1 ROCK SHOW live session (show starts midnight) Thu 10 G»
New Earache Records signings Cadaver Inc are being investigated by the Norwegian secret police, and under discussion in the Norwegian parliament. According to the Norwegian Parliament's Head of Security, the band's website is "so ugly and scary we had to go to the police with it". The band now faces charges of Internet»
Slipknot's new album, rumoured to be titled either "People = Shit" or "Iowa" has been slated for release on 23 July. Tracks include "People = Shit", "The Heretic Anthem", "New Abortion" and "Disaster Piece". Says vocalist corey Taylor, ""This album is basically saying to someone: "Here. Sit down in this chair. Ma»
Oh, the eighties are cool again, are they? What, with the Second Coming of Gary Numan, and the current trend for metal bands to acknowledge New Romantics as their primary influences (take Deftones, for example…), one might be wise to predict an onslaught of retro-synth-rockers in the near future. Indeed, we already hav»
The lineup for this years T In The Park fetival, which takes place in Balado, Nr Kinross on the 8 and 9 of July, has been announced. Stereophonics will headline the main stage on 8 July, and Texas will headline on the 9th. Other bands playing the main stage include Placebo, David Gray, Coldplay, Beck and Toploade»
Ah yes. This is what we've been waiting for ever since Dog Eat Dog stopped releasing "No Fronts" every other week. Anthemic skate-punky rappy kinda stuff with a chorus the size of a disabled toilet. 28 Days are huge in their native Australia, one of only nine antipodean bands to have debuted at Number One. "Rip It Up" »
Very very funny stuff from a bloke with a cheap keyboard and a slightly twisted sense of humour. Think Bloodhound Gang meets Kid With Man Head in a music lesson at a school which hasn't bought new instruments for ten years. Think those funny songs that Adam and Joe used to do, only with lyrics by someone who's been ope»
In 1997, having spent the best part of a decade paving the way for the likes of 3 Colours Red and Feeder, and continually coming within pissing distance of a top 10 hit, the Wildhearts dragged themselves out of the perpetual record label problems which had almost killed them on several occasions and negotiated the deal»
The best of Megadeth, apparently, but there are some bizarre choices. Three tracks from Cryptic Writings (Trust, Almost Honest, and Use The Man) seems like an odd idea, although I can't really fault any of them. A track from Risk is an even odder idea, but if there really had to be one, it should have been the delightf»
Has there ever been a more promising line-up than this? Ex-Wildhearts mainman Ginger, Backyard Babies guitarist/vocalist Dregen, Hellacopters forntman Nick Royale, and top producer Tomas Skogsberg all bunged into a studio together after consuming copious amounts of alcohol and god-knows-what-else. This is the result - »
Hmm... Major label punk rock... Now I don't want to get into a big argument about punk, for fear of a legion of "misunderstood" and green-haired adolescents informing me that "Offspring rocks and your [sic] gay", but I have to point out that it could be argued that someone who is signed to Virgin, friends with R»
There’s a recipe for this kind of thing, isn’t there? I can just see Ainsley Harriot. “Mix your basic three chords with some latino-sounding stuff... If you haven’t got any real latino music, you can get a good imitation from the local supermarket. Then you need a riff - I’m going to use one I made earlier. A bit of Sa»
Erm, sorry mate - whose generation? Fred Durst apparently thinks that by wearing his hat backwards, crouching down and making silly hand gestures, and saying “fuck” a lot, he can become the spokesman for a generation of angry kids. What he has failed to realise is that the “angry” kids are listening to Incubus a»
