Still filled with excitement from last nights knockout set from Trivium, we’re up bright and early on Saturday morning. Ready to make our first trip of the weekend over to the Sophie Lancaster stage. Where a light breakfast of progressive metalcore awaits… Despite drawing what’s usually a death slot at 10:30am, when most of the…
With Bloodstock 2025 just a few weeks away. The grounds of Catton Hall in Derby will soon be filled with thousands of heavy metal fans. All dying for their fix of live music. So with the roster of artists on Bloodstocks expansive bill semmingly growing by the year. We’ve taken a look at 2025’s amazing…
Since they let freedom ring with a shotgun blast well over two decades ago. Oakland natives, Machine Head have had a tumultuous journey. From the dizzying highs of their debut, through the troubled adolescence of The Burning Red and Supercharger. To their majestic resurgence with Through The Ashes Of Empires and genre defining work on…
Bay Area thrashers Machine Head have announced their monumental eleventh studio album this week, UNATØNED. Which is slated for release this April! Having blazed a trail through the heavy metal landscape for the better part of three decades. Overcoming obstacle after obstacle. The bands latest work is a testament to the momentum, determination and die…
As far as first festival line up announcements go, Bloodstock Open Air Festival have smashed it out of the park with their opening blast of bands for 2025. In their opening 19 band salvo, Bloodstock have revealed all three main stage headliners for next years festival and a viking boat load of other good stuff…
On the second day of Hellfest 2024, sets started at 10:30am and wrapped up at 2am, with much anticipation surrounding certain performances such as Shaka Ponk, Polyphia, and Machine Head. Saint Agnes kicked off the day bright and early, as effective as a triple shot of espresso. They had the tough job of getting the festival-goers ready for the…
The final day of Download Festival 2024 is, judging by many comments online from attendees and those who wish they were going alike, “the most stacked” line up of any day on this years’ festival. Perhaps it is no coincidence that it was also the first part of the festival (RIP packages aside), to sell…
Download 2024 is go! Following in the footsteps of other European festivals like Rock AM Ring and Nova Rock over the last week or so, the Download Festival team have unleashed the bulk of the 2024 Line up in one huge announcement. For the first time since 2012, the Download Festival has two new headliners…
As Machine Head main man Robb Flynn himself said, It’s Saturday night in London F***ing England! This past Saturday saw one of the metal tours of the year come to town, and there were plenty of fans through the doors early for the London debut of The Halo Effect (8). What follows is one of…
MACHINE HEAD is a fascinating band. A band that has generational appeal, who shot to prominence during the heyday of Roadrunner Records. They are arguably one of the most respected bands in heavy music. With that said, they have never been ones to make things easy for themselves. Their catalogue is littered with examples of…
