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Oni – Alone EP
By Jacob Oakey
/ 13th December 2019
2019 had been a pretty quiet year for Oni, up until now. It’s clear they were probably taking some time off, however they’ve spent that time working on their new...
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Steve May Reviews
SKID ROW: THE UNITED WORLD REBELLION U.K. TOUR w/ The Quireboys, Crashdiet, Matt Mitchell and the Coldhearts – The Mill, Birmingham 08/11/19
By Steve May
/ 12th December 2019
DISCLAIMER: This is one of those rare reviews i’ll do for MMH. I’ll be very clear why – with so many people reviewing gigs across the country and some half-hearted...
Charlie Pollard Reviews
UoB Fresh Blood VI. Elyrean + Blood Church – Subside Birmingham 4/12/19
By Charlie Pollard
/ 9th December 2019
The University of Birmingham’s metal society always does a fantastic in welcoming new members and old members into the year with their annual gig ‘Fresh Blood’. The event always manages...
Diane Davies Reviews
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Live Review – SACRED REICH / NIGHT DEMON / ERADIKATOR – KKs STEELMILL – 4/12/19
By Diane Davies
/ 9th December 2019
After being stuck in rush hour traffic and those heading for the Wolves match at Molyneux, for an hour, I finally get to KK’s Steelmill . Nearly 45 minutes late...
Karolina Eah Chmal Reviews
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Seth – Les Blessures De l’Âme: XX ans de Blasphème
By Karolina Eah Chmal
/ 9th December 2019
Time flies in a relentless manner. This precious flow won't stop nor turn back for anyone or anything. As time goes by, albums that seem like they've only just been...
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Stan Goode Reviews
Sanguine – Cold Blood
By Stan Goode
/ 7th December 2019
Formed in 2004, four piece British alt rock/metal band Sanguine have managed relative success.The group, fronted by vocalist Tarin Kerrey, have played multiple festivals including Download and Bloodstock, and also...
Jacob Oakey Reviews
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Maven – Am I Awake?
By Jacob Oakey
/ 6th December 2019
With this new EP release and an upcoming show supporting Sumo Cyco, it’s an exciting time for this band. ‘Am I Awake?’ has just been released, six years after the...
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Skid Reviews
Review -GWAR / Voivod / Childrain – O2 Academy Islington, London – 4th December 2019
By Simon Kidd
/ 6th December 2019
Let’s be honest ,currently there is little to raise a smile with what is going on across at the globe at this time. A big thank you is required...
Beth Sanders Reviews
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BBF – Outside the Noise
By Beth Sanders
/ 5th December 2019
BBF bring us their second album Outside the Noise today, and it’s a whirlwind combination of Coldplay’s acoustic rawness and Jimi Hendrix’s roaring guitars. The Italian psychedelic funk rock trio...
Courtney Wallace Reviews
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Nightwish – Decades Live in Buenos Aires
By Courtney Wallace
/ 4th December 2019
Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish bring us a whopping 21-track live album, recorded in Buenos Aires. The recorded album "Decades" was released in 2018, with some remastering of older material,...
Karolina Eah Chmal Reviews
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Dark Sorrow – Dark Sorrow
By Karolina Eah Chmal
/ 4th December 2019
The heart of West Midlands, Birmingham, is a home of many great rock and metal bands. Black Sabbath, Godflesh, Judas Priest, Mistress, Anaal Nathrakh, Esoteric - just to name a...
Diane Davies Reviews
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LIVE REVIEW – LIBERTY LIES / MALLEN / DAVID YOUNG & THE MIDNIGHT CHORUS – SPLINTER STUDIOS 30/11/19
By Diane Davies
/ 3rd December 2019
It is always a pleasure to watch bands in their home town and in front of family and friends. You just can’t beat the atmosphere and tonight is no exception....
Jacob Oakey Reviews
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Hamelin- Hamelin EP
By Jacob Oakey
/ 30th November 2019
Originating from Mechelen in Belgium, this band is ready and primed to strike the metal world with their debut release. While the band members have been involved in the local...
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Retrospective Review: Avril Lavigne- Under My Skin
By Matthew_Brooks
/ 29th November 2019
Despite have previously enjoyed Avril Lavigne’s debut, I was still apprehensive going into Under My Skin. Without big name songs like Sk8er Boi or Complicated in the track listing, I...
Karolina Eah Chmal Reviews
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And Now The Owls Are Smiling – The Comforting Grip of Misery
By Karolina Eah Chmal
/ 29th November 2019
The wonder of nature was always a mystery and inspiration for many. It attracts, amazes and stuns. For its truest worshipers, it'll be the sweetest home but for the reckless...
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Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy & Hypocrisy
By Damian_John
/ 29th November 2019
Hypocrisy aren't your every day standard Swedish death metal band. Their music has an unrivalled ferocity with a jagged edge, just how we like it. Dirty guitar solos in the...
Matt Noble Reviews
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Mos Generator – Spontaneous Combustions
By Matt Noble
/ 25th November 2019
Mos Generator have been active since 2000, but you wouldn’t have thought so with their busy output this year. Spontaneous Combustions comes barely a month after Exiles, an album of...
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Sami Draiochts Reviews
PUP Birmingham Review – 23.11.19
By Sami Draiocht
/ 25th November 2019
A rainy cold night in Birmingham did absolutely nothing to dampen the spirits of the droves of fans who turned up to see the pop punk Canadian quartet in the...
Beth Sanders Reviews
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Bellevue Days – It Can’t Possibly Go Wrong Ever
By Beth Sanders
/ 22nd November 2019
Following the success of their last EP Rosehill in 2017, Croydon-based four-piece band Bellevue Days release their debut album today entitled It Can’t Possibly Go Wrong Ever. In this musical...
Diane Davies Reviews
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LIBERTY LIES – IT’S THE HOPE THAT KILLS YOU – LP – RELEASED 29/11/19
By Diane Davies
/ 21st November 2019
Making quite an impact on the music front at the moment, these four Black Country guys are about to unleash their latest offering. Impressive at the Steelhouse festival this year...
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Steve Gould Reviews
Review: Steve Hackett B’ham Symphony Hall, 18th Nov 2019
By The Progmeister
/ 20th November 2019
Probably best known for his time with cult Prog band Genesis (1970 - 77), at the age of 69 (does this guy ever age ???), since leaving the band, Steve...
Karolina Eah Chmal Reviews
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Nocturnal Depression – Tides of Despair
By Karolina Eah Chmal
/ 20th November 2019
Nowadays, the French underground black metal scene is better than ever. It's quite amazing how many new black metal projects and albums have been released lately in France. And I'm...
Diane Davies Reviews
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Live Review – GRAVITY FESTIVAL – 19/10/2019 – The Station Cannock
By Diane Davies
/ 18th November 2019
Due to unavoidable circumstances which happen when you least expect them, I must offer a big apology for the delay in publishing this review. Well, better late than never, let’s...
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Tony Heare Reviews
Dragonforce/Lovebites/McRocklin & Hutch – Tramshed Cardiff 12.11.19
By hearetaffy
/ 17th November 2019
You always know what to expect at a Dragonforce show - red hot guitars, catchy choruses, insanely fast drumming. But the word 'show' is uppermost on their current UK tour,...
matthew brooks reviews
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Slayer- The Repentless Killogy
By Matthew_Brooks
/ 16th November 2019
Upon Slayer announcing that they are on their final world tour, I was left with mixed emotions. They have, and always will be, one of the greats of heavy metal,...
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Buckcherry Cardiff
By Morag Farley
/ 16th November 2019
Buckcherry with support from Rocky Kramer and The Treatment. 10 November 2019 - Cardiff Tramshed Sunday night in Cardiff can be unpredictable - especially in November. Hopefully a three band...
kevin mcdonald Reviews
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Sodom – Out of the Frontline Trench
By drbunnig
/ 16th November 2019
It was about a year ago now that I was putting pen to paper whilst musing over Sodom’s EP Partisan, which was to be a taster for a forthcoming album....
Jacob Oakey Reviews
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Youth Illusion – Terms of Submission
By Jacob Oakey
/ 15th November 2019
New boys Youth Illusion formed initially in May 2018, but they’ve wasted no time in getting stuck into the recording side of music, by sealing a record deal with Essex...
Beth Sanders Reviews
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Degreed – Lost Generation
By Beth Sanders
/ 15th November 2019
Hailing all the way from Sweden, the four-piece rock bank Degreed release their fifth album Lost Generationtoday. Since the release of their critically acclaimed first album Life, Love, Lossin 2010,...
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Stan Goode Reviews
Like Moths To Flames – Where The Light Refuses To Go
By Stan Goode
/ 14th November 2019
Ohio metalcore outfit, Like Moths To Flames, have put out some great albums and greater songs over the past 10 years, all while under the Rise Records banner. However, in...
Karolina Eah Chmal Reviews
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1349 – The Infernal Pathway
By Karolina Eah Chmal
/ 14th November 2019
1349 is striking back, armed with a new album - The Infernal Pathway. The band was formed from the ashes of Alvheim in 1997 by Ravn, Tjalve, Balfori and Seidemann....
jonathan watkiss Reviews
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Album Review: The Legendary Pink Dots – Angel In The Detail
By JohnESmoke
/ 13th November 2019
The always clever and mind expanding Legendary Pink Dots return once more with new album 'Angel In The Detail' and it is a blinder. The Legendary Pink Dots exist outside...
jonathan watkiss Reviews
Album Review: Mamiffer – The Brilliant Tabernacle
By JohnESmoke
/ 12th November 2019
Mamiffer are Faith Coloccia and Aaron Turner with quite an array of additional talents to complete the line up. Aaron Turner will be a familiar name to some readers through...
Matt Noble Reviews
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Charlene Beretah – Ram
By Matt Noble
/ 12th November 2019
Hailing from Neuchâtel in Switzerland, Charlene Beretah are relatively unheard of in the doom and sludge scene, with only a twenty-minute EP from 2016 previously to their name (titled Depraved/A...
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Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons
By Morag Farley
/ 11th November 2019
Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons with support from King Creature at the Tramshed, Cardiff. 9 November 201 Ending a tour on your home city is always going to mean...
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Steve Gould Reviews
Review: Marillion – B’Ham Symphony Hall, November 6th.
By The Progmeister
/ 11th November 2019
Marillion (with friends from the orchestra) – Birmingham Symphony Hall, 6th November 2019 As they say “Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be” – unless you bolt a string section...
Matt Noble Reviews
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Stoned Jesus – From the Outer Space
By Matt Noble
/ 11th November 2019
To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Ukrainian prog-stoner rockers Stoned Jesus have re-released their first couple of demos into a compilation, titled From the Outer Space. In the subsequent decade after...
kevin mcdonald Reviews
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Avatarium – The Fire I Long For
By drbunnig
/ 10th November 2019
Avatarium started as another string to the bow of doom metal master Leif Edling, who has been instrumental in creating some of the most renowned albums in the genre. The...
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Retrospective Review: Avril Lavigne- Let Go
By Matthew_Brooks
/ 8th November 2019
Given that pop-rock megastar Avril Lavigne is returning to the UK in April 2020 for a few shows, I’ve decided to dive into her back catalogue and give my thoughts...
Jacob Oakey Reviews
A Killer’s Confession – The Indifference Of Good Men
By Jacob Oakey
/ 8th November 2019
Unless you’re a pretty die-hard fan of metal or Mushroomhead, it’s probably unlikely that you’ve heard of this band. So, for anyone who hasn’t heard of this new band, allow...
Karolina Eah Chmal Reviews
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Epica – Design Your Universe Gold Edition
By Karolina Eah Chmal
/ 4th November 2019
Epica, founded in early 2002 by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen, is blending symphonic, gothic and power metal sounds with a unique mezzo-soprano voice of the very talented Simone Simons....
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Stan Goode Reviews
Une Misère – Sermon
By Stan Goode
/ 4th November 2019
Having already played Wacken Open Air Festival, and Icelands Eistnaflug festival, it comes as a surprise to me that Une Misère had not had an album released sooner. Aside from...
kevin mcdonald Reviews
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Crystal Viper – Tales of Fire and Ice
By drbunnig
/ 3rd November 2019
Poland has had a wealth of talented metal bands break through over the past few decades, and for my money, there’s been none better than Crystal Viper. Despite a weaker...
Matt Noble Reviews
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Do or Die – Machine Head
By Matt Noble
/ 1st November 2019
Machine Head’s ninth studio album Catharsis was released in January of last year to somewhat negative reception from critics, fans, and even some of the band; long-term members Phil Demmel...
Jacob Oakey Reviews
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Eskimo Callboy – Rehab
By Jacob Oakey
/ 1st November 2019
Two years on from the controversial fourth album ‘The Scene’, the German electronic-metal band Eskimo Callboy have returned with their new album - Rehab. Over the past decade, it’s fair...
Beth Sanders Reviews
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Anavae – 45
By Beth Sanders
/ 31st October 2019
The London-based alternative duo’s next wave of music comes in the form of debut album, 45. Halloween continues on with this seamless blend of electro-synths and heavy rhythm guitar that...
Karolina Eah Chmal Reviews
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Sunn O))) – Pyroclasts
By Karolina Eah Chmal
/ 30th October 2019
The drone metal masters are back shortly after their last release. Sunn O))) spoilt their fans in April 2019 with Life Metal just to return few months later with Pyroclasts....
jonathan watkiss Reviews
Album Review: KMFDM – Paradise
By JohnESmoke
/ 28th October 2019
So KMFDM have released a new album, ‘Paradise’. One might be inclined to think that a band that have existed for 35 years and outputted 21 albums will have little...
matthew brooks reviews
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Alcest- Spiritual Instinct
By Matthew_Brooks
/ 25th October 2019
The French metal scene has been dominated, in recent years, by Gojira and Betraying The Martyrs in the mainstream. However, in more underground circles, Alcest have been beloved pioneers for...
Courtney Wallace Reviews
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The Bedroom Witch – Diaspora
By Courtney Wallace
/ 24th October 2019
The Bedroom Witch is an artist whose music includes spell chanting and harmonious story-telling, whose description of themselves is "Misunderstood Maker of the Veil". This Los Angeles character started creating...
Charlie Pollard Reviews
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Rings of Saturn – Gidim
By Charlie Pollard
/ 23rd October 2019
When it comes to reviewing an album or a band, it’s important to consider what similar bands at the time are doing. This helps to draw comparisons, allows you to...
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Steve May Reviews
THE CULT / YONAKA / THE LAST INTERNATIONALE – Birmingham O2 Academy 17/10/19
By Steve May
/ 23rd October 2019
17th October: The Birmingham O2 Academy was not only a solid affair - but a packed one but one where the depth of all acts was in overflow. The vibe...
Amy Lawrence Reviews
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Gloryhammer: Live at The Mill, Digbeth
By Amy Lawrence
/ 23rd October 2019
Despite forming in 2010, tonight is Gloryhammer’s debut in Birmingham, bringing their eclectic and always completely ridiculous set of inter galactic battles and hammer wielding to the humble venue of...
Diane Davies Reviews
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LIVE REVIEW – ANNIHILATOR / ARCHER NATION / ELYREAN – KKs STEELMILL WOLVERHAMPTON – 16/10/19
By Diane Davies
/ 22nd October 2019
Only my third visit to KK’s, I’m getting to like it, but it’s cold in here tonight. Even KK himself, standing near the back of the room, has his sheepskin...
kevin mcdonald Reviews
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Nile – Vile Nilotic Rites
By drbunnig
/ 22nd October 2019
A little over 20 years ago, death metal pantheons Nile first broke through, shaking the foundations of the genre with a unique mix of brutality and Egyptian influenced instrumentation. The...
Charlie Pollard Reviews
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Bloodshot Dawn + Support – Scruffy Murphy’s Birmingham 18/10/19
By Charlie Pollard
/ 22nd October 2019
You have to thoroughly admire a band who has gained notoriety due to nothing but their pure talent. It usually takes some kind of viral video or strong base following...
Amy Lawrence Reviews
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Phil Campbell: Old Lions Still Roar
By Amy Lawrence
/ 21st October 2019
Phil Campbell has been musing over a solo record for the past twenty years. Whilst in Motorhead, Lemmy frequently encouraged Campbell to pursue this need for further creativity yet this...
kevin mcdonald Reviews
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Mayhem – Daemon
By drbunnig
/ 18th October 2019
Mayhem are one of the world's most renowned black metal bands, although some will say that their status is as much to do with the actions of their members in...
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Steve Gould Reviews
The Who – Top 5 Albums: An Overview
By The Progmeister
/ 17th October 2019
Described as one of the "Greatest Rock Bands Ever", The Who have been with us in one way or another for over 50 years and wow, have they created some...
Diane Davies Reviews
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Wayward Sons – The Truth Ain’t What It Used To Be – Released 11/10/19
By Diane Davies
/ 17th October 2019
I normally listen to an album a few times initially, before making notes for a review. However, I went off on a tangent with ‘The Truth Ain’t What It Used...
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