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It’s a funny thing when adulation is put into international perspective. What is one countries gold is another countries garbage. Take Creed as an example. In the United States, they are greeted with both critical acclaim and mass popularity, while the rest of the globe simply scratches it’s head and stare’s bla»
The journey of a rock band is usually a long and fraught affair. There’s the standard years spent in the garage’s and local clubs of your town and, even once you’ve secured a record deal, there’s usually the endless (and often fruitless) task of getting the public to notice you. But the times they are a-changing. Rock »
As Noddy Holder once said, ‘It’s Chriiiiiiistmas!’ and don’t you know it when there’s yet another ‘Greatest Hits’ collection on the horizon. This time it’s Grunge-meisters, The Smashing Pumpkins that are giving their hits a good airing but really, if you don’t own all of the albums, you bloody should and with th»
B-Movie Interludes, an unmistakable chug and every verse ending in the word ‘Yeah’. Yep, you guessed it, Uncle Rob is back in town with his second solo outing ‘The Sinister Urge’. The self-confessed leader of Spookshow International has always produced decent, if inconsistant, releases and this is no exception. »
In every generation… yeah, yeah, yeah you know the drill. For those who aren’t aware (and where have you been!?) Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the slickest, most quick-witted and, dare I say, challenging teen drama around, certainly today and possibly of all time. The story revolves around one girl who has been gi»
There’s only one thing worse than people thinking your band are a pile of pig excrement and that’s not having an opinion at all. Such is the problem that have plagued Bush throughout there seven year career. Everyone seems to think they’re ‘alright’ or they have the misconstrued preconception that they are simpl»
It’s been a hell of a career for New York’s DMX, only three albums thus far released and the man has already clocked up around fifteen million in worldwide sales. Although being something of an unknown entity in the UK, Dark Man’s forth release, ‘The Great Depression’, is arguably the most anticipated hip»
A lot has changed since the man christened John Osbourne released a record into this world. For Starters, the man is now seen as the God-Father of all things Metal, thanks in no small part to the annual Ozz-fest taking rock to the masses and the Black Sabbath reunion that saw all generations gather and pay homage to th»
What can be said about Busta Rhymes that hasn’t been said a million times before? Busta has changed the shape of hip-hop time and time again and was a major force in the mid-90's Hip-Hop explosion. Always eccentric and in your face, the dread-locked superstar has always shown flamboyance in a genre where mediocr»
Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he plans to stage next year's Ozz-fest in Donnington, formerly host to the annual Monsters of Rock festival. 'Milton Keynes is nice to do, but hard heavy metal belongs at Donnington' says the double O. 'It's great that we'll be able to play there again. I believe I'll be »
Japanese noise terrorists The Mad Capsule Markets have announced their debut UK show at London's Mean Fiddler on the 4th December. Tickets are available at all of the usual outlets.»
Slipknot have joined the ever growing list of bands to postpone or cancel their UK tour. Following System of a Down and Blink 182, the band had the following to say: ' Because of the international tensions, current conflict, and growing safety problems involving our country, we are postponing - not cancelling - »
Insane. The only one word that can satisfyingly describe the Mad Capsule Markets and the wonderful racket that they make. Imagine a coalition between the Prodigy, Sepultura and the Offspring and we’re kind of getting close to defining the sound of ‘OSC-DIS’. Album curtain-raiser ‘Tribe’ starts with a nice»
You should all know the story by now. Little band come out of the Welsh valleys, rip a gaping hole in the current Nu-Metal scene, record a ferocious debut record and proceed to follow world domination. The band in question are the Lost Prophets and the record is ‘The Fake Sound Of Progress’. Bringing you »
Puddle of Mudd have a mass of work to do if they’re to follow in the footsteps of fellow Durst endorsed rockers, Staind. If musical quality is anything to go by they should achieve this feat with aplomb, but let’s face it, that’s no big achievement is it? ‘Come Clean’ is in no way the most earth-movingly origina»
The double O is back with this, his first single in five long years. ‘Gets Me Through’ is a typically raucous affair, starting with the trademark tinkling of the ivories before giving way to an unholy bastard of a riff courtesy of Mr. Zakk Wylde. While Ozzy’s vocals and lyrics remain predictable from the very start (Di»
This is one of those moments. There comes a time every now and then that an album is so stunningly beautiful it makes time itself stand still. Bleed American (despite it’s violent moniker) is a collection of songs that are so blissfully enchanting that all the descriptive words in the English language couldn’t d»
It's a funny old game, the world of Rock 'n' Roll. There are bands that spend years in the back of cold, battered mini-vans striving for success to no avail and, quite frankly, Sum 41 are not one of them. To say that their rise to the top has been meteoric would be like saying Manchester United’s weekend comebac»
If you’re one of those people who don’t like change, please look away now. If you wanted another 40 minutes of sheer hard-core noise, I’m afraid you’ve inserted the wrong cd. Vision of Disorder have changed on a scale akin to Jack’s beans to beanstalk caper and it's all for the good. A bone-crushing concoction o»
The world of pop rock has not had a good year in 2001. Outside of Weezer, it’s been second rate chancers like Alkaline Trio clogging up the play-list for all things smile-orientated. So, quite how Fenix *TX have managed to pull off a record as storming as Lechuza is anyone’s guess. The Fenix boys have ma»
With a world-wide tragedy happening the very same day, it’s a shame to have to witness one of the world’s more noteworthy Nu-Metal acts on a day like today. After releasing an exceptional debut and currently having a heavy-rotation Michael Jackson cover on display everywhere, the hard work Alien Ant Farm are cur»
My God! Are Spineshank really this popular!? It’s a Friday night inside London’s Astoria and everyone’s stuffed together like the proverbial tinned sardines. What a long way the band have come from opening here for Fear Factory all those years ago. Before Spineshank, however, there’s the seemingly small ma»
It’s a fact that Nu-Metal is not exactly begging for new talent at this point in time. With the rap-rock invasion at an all time high, one could be forgiven for finding the genre becoming one-dimensional. Dry Kill Logic, however, are a true metal band. Their debut record ‘The Darker Side of Nonsense’ is a»
It’s been a long, agonizing wait but finally ‘God Hates Us All’ is with us. The first Slayer record in three years and it takes all of about thirty seconds of first track proper, ‘Disciple’, before you start thanking the God’s above (or below) for the return of the heaviest band on planet Earth. Le»
Unless you’ve been living on the moon as of late, you will have heard of Staind. Fred Durst’s big guns that have taken America by storm and on listening to ‘Break the Cycle’ the only question you’re left asking yourself is ‘How?’. Now we’ve seen in the past that the American audience are easily per»
Oh, and indeed, dear. This is the sort of shit that makes you feel like pulling a gun on yourself and squeezing the trigger with maximum force. If your a fan of the syrupy bollocks Aerosmith are trying to pass of as music these days then, you might enjoy this. If, however, you form part of the sane world and like your »
The U.K. Metal revolution took a further upward turn tonight when Slipknot's 'Iowa' opus shot straight into the U.K. Album chart at number one. Despite competition from the likes of The Strokes, Bjork, 5ive and New Order, the Des Moines 9-piece became quite possibly the most extreme outfit to ever hold the nations numb»
This is going to be on record one of the hardest reviews I have ever had to complete. System of a Down are quite simply the most ‘out there’ band currently gracing God’s green Earth. With the ability to go from cartoon-esque lunacy to unadulterated chaos in the blink of an eye, it’s this musical madness that is »
You already know the story behind them. Nine men in masks and boiler suits arrive on a flagging metal scene and turn the entire genre on it’s head. Well, the time has come to forget past glories and get on with the here and now. This isn’t just a CD release people, this is an event. You can literally feel the tension a»
You have to feel sorry for Boy Hits Car tonight. With the audience reaction being deader than the current grunge scene, the band hardly manage to rouse polite applause. That is except for when the singer tries to scale the walls at the Academy, making it as far as the top of the P.A. system before lunging into »
