Tag Fear Factory
There were two reasons for opting to cover this sold out show in Manchester, firstly I wanted to see Ghosts of Atlantis again on the back of their exceptional new album ‘Riddles Of The Sycophant’ and secondly whether this tour… Continue Reading →
Scotland’s groove metal machine Dog Tired are here with their 5th release; ‘The Red Verse’. This is the follow up to the highly acclaimed ‘The Electric Abyss’ (2019) and to those familiar with the band, a sign of growing from… Continue Reading →
It’s not often that you get caught off your guard and welcome the subsequent feeling. It’s not good in the sense of say getting caught off your guard by a lion whilst on safari in the Masai Mara Reserve in… Continue Reading →
It’s been a few weeks of relative calm and peace in my world, that has been, up until this point, a year of real ups and downs across the board. Reviewing for this esteemed website, Ave Noctum, has, at times,… Continue Reading →
By album number twelve most fans of Sigh should be well aware that taking anything for granted is a foolish folly. I was well aware that even a week’s intensive listening here was not going to do more than scratch… Continue Reading →
‘Eternal Nightmare’ and ‘Frolic Through The Park’ were my first foray into Bay Area thrash and still easily in my favourite albums list. Perhaps owing to nostalgia, but also because I really enjoyed them. I could bore or regale you… Continue Reading →
Fairy tale may be going a little too far but the journey of Bloodywood would make an awesome film. There is already a documentary “Raj Against the Machine” which you can watch on YouTube which depicts the bands story up to their… Continue Reading →
While it’s been 6 years since ‘Genexus’ was released, it’s also been more than 3 since the songs for this album were all recorded too. Granted Dino Cazares did do some crowd funding last year to get Mike Heller to… Continue Reading →
A brief bit of online research on Northmaan finds that this one-man project is from “the most Northernmost part of the UK”. A further bit of intrepid Googling point to this being possibly Skaw on the Shetlands. Now, anyone expecting Northmaan’s debut to be filled with Gaelic rhythms… Continue Reading →
To the casual observer the Portuguese metal scene appears a tightknit network of intermingling, with musicians popping up in each other’s bands with startling regularity. A stalwart of the scene is drummer Pedro Mau; who has been an integral cog… Continue Reading →
The adage of not judging a book by its cover is well received by yours truly with this release from Polish act Inhumanity Vortex who were previously called Inhumanity. Under this moniker was released a handful of demos before suffixing… Continue Reading →
‘Apocrypha’ opens with a smack to the face and a stripped back single key keyboard riff and then the band launches into the parade. This may not be Fear Factory, but it is loaded with similarities to Burton C Bells… Continue Reading →