Official video for the I AM I track ‘Silent Genocide‘, taken from the I AM I debut album ‘Event Horizon‘.
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I AM I – Silent Genocide Video
Archives for January 2013
Dropkick Murphys – Signed and Sealed in Blood
Album number 8 from Massachusetts’ favourite sons, Dropkick Murphys. If you don’t already know (you should), Dropkick Murphys are a band that blend punk rock with Irish folk music. This results in fast anthemic songs that are made to drink to.
Straight from the opening seconds of the first track, ‘The Boys are Back’, this is unmistakably the Murphys. Lead single ‘Rose Tattoo‘ is one the bands finest songs to date, and is the perfect encapsulation of this album. There’s a load of brilliant, catchy hooks on this album, none more so than with ‘On the Town’, a track which sums up the fun times vibe of this album. The most interesting song on here however is Dropkick Murphys’ attempt at a Christmas song, ‘The Season’s Upon Us’, an absolutely fantastic offering from the band that made me laugh out loud on multiple occasions. It’s reminiscent of The Pogues’ ‘Fairytale of New York’.
Don’t ask questions, just down a cider and enjoy some great, fun, singalong punk rock songs.
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Exist Immortal – Exist Video
Official video for the Exist Immortal track ‘Exist‘, the debut single from the band’s debut mini-album.
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Black Veil Brides – Wretched and Devine: The Story of the Wild Ones
It’s 2013, and we start off the year with a release from one of the most talked about and divisive bands around right now, Black Veil Brides. Black Veil Brides have developed a massive fan base in their short ascendancy, but with that has come a massive amount of haters too, and so this release was always likely to be a major talking point.
First off, I must say that I admire Black Veil Brides’ ambition with this record. It’s a nine track concept album, complete with incredibly high production values. The album takes you on a bit of a journey as well, especially with the 3 spoken word pieces, the ‘F.E.A.R Transmissions’, courtesy of Wil Francis (formerly of Aiden and now of William Control). Black Veil Brides have produced some of their strongest material here, with the leading single ‘In The End’ and the great guitar riff on the second track of the album, ‘I Am Bulletproof’. There are a couple of other decent tracks on here such as ‘Resurrect the Sun’ and ‘New Years Day’, but unfortunately this album also has its share of stinkers. As it does with most bands similar to them, the really bad songs come in the form of their more ballad bassed songs, such as ‘Done For You’ and ‘Lost It All’. These tracks are just dreary and weak.
On the whole I think this album had good ideas, just with a pretty weak execution. 19 tracks is just too many. Did the world, and even Black Veil Brides’ current fan base, really need a 19 track concept album? Maybe if they had cut out the bad tracks and tweaked the average ones they may have been onto something good here. Unfortunately, that was not the case.
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More Bands Confirmed for Slam Dunk Festival
Slam Dunk Festival 2013 has just got all the more awesome with the annoucement that Andrew McMahon, Mallory Knox, Man Overboard, MC Lars, Memphis May Fire, Sleeping With Sirens, and The Summer Set have all now been confirmed for the festival.
As you can see from the poster above, Slam Dunk now has a great list of bands lined up for 2013, and no doubt over the coming weeks and months there’ll be plenty more great bands added to the lineup, too.
Further to adding a Hatfield date in 2010, the mastermind’s behind Slam Dunk have now added a third location for Slam Dunk, and in addition to Hatfield and Leeds, in 2013 Slam Dunk Festival will now also take place in Wolverhampton. Slam Dunk will hit Leeds on May 25th, Hatfield on May 26th, and then will finally arrive in Wolverhampton for May 27th.
Slam Dunk Festival is bigger and better than ever in 2013, so if you’ve not already bought your ticket for the event then you can check availability now on the official Slam Dunk website.
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New Bring Me The Horizon Track ‘Shadow Moses’ Unveiled
Yesterday we brought you the news that Bring Me The Horizon’s new track ‘Shadow Moses‘ would today be unveiled on the Radio 1 Rock Show, and further to this we can now reveal that the track has now been broadcast and you can listen to the new track from the band here:
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Lost Souls – Black Eyes Video
Official video for the Lost Souls track ‘Black Eyes‘.
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Hitchcock Blonde – Sexy Like You Video
Official video for the Hitchcock Blonde track ‘Sexy Like You‘, taken from the band’s 6-track ‘Five Pounds‘ EP which is available now from the band’s Bandcamp page.
Hitchcock Blonde is a female fronted alt rock band from West London.
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New Bring Me The Horizon single ‘Shadow Moses’ Set for Release
Bring Me The Horizon will release a new single next week in the form of ‘Shadow Moses‘.
This will be the band’s first new music since 2010s ‘There Is a Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let’s Keep It a Secret.‘ studio album, and the band will then follow it up with fourth studio album ‘Sempiternal‘ later on this year.
‘Shadow Moses‘ will be officially unveiled on Daniel P Carter’s Radio 1 Rock Show on Friday 4th January, so tune in to the show from 1-4pm in order to hear this brand new BMTH track for the very first time anywhere.
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Live Review: Parkway Drive, Emmure, The Word Alive, Structures @ Leeds University, November 16th 2012
First up were Structures, a young band from Canada making their first trip over to the UK. They started developing a dedicated fanbase in 2011 after releasing their debut full length album ‘Divided By‘ through Sumerian Records, and I was surprised at just how many people in attendance were clearly already fans of this band. A big pit formed, and they had quite a few people singing their lyrics back to them, quite a rarity when you’re the first band on a four band bill. Sound wise the band was very tight, and the frontman got the audience as hyped up as he possibly could. As someone who’d not heard of them before they left me very impressed.
7/10
Second up was The Word Alive, a band that has been over here quite a few times, from Arizona USA. They play some fairly standard metalcore, nothing any metalcore fan wouldn’t have heard before. Although the band sounded decent, and the crowd in general seemed to dig them, they didn’t leave much of an impression on me like Structures did. Static performance, and no material that really resonated with me.
5/10
Next up was the main support act, New York heavy hitters, Emmure. Almost ten years of ferocious deathcore has seen them become one of the most divisive bands in metal today. People either seem to have massive love for the band, or massive hatred for the band. Luckily, the fairly young audience seemed to love them, and the band received a crowd reaction worthy of headliners. Their mixture of almost spoken lyrics, vicious growls, dissonant chords and signature breakdowns sounded massive in the fairly big venue, and went down a storm.
8/10
Then finally the band everyone had been waiting for took to the stage. Anyone who has seen this great Australian band before knows that they’re arguably the best and most fun live band around. This night was no exception, playing to the craziest crowd reaction I’ve ever seen. The high production values of the stageshow in terms of the enchanting lights and enormous projected backdrop just increased the experience tenfold. I went to a lot of shows in 2012, and with the exception of Sabbath at Download, this was the best I’ve been to. Parkway Drive is one of metalcores shining beacons, and they’ve set the standard for live performances. Incredible show.
10/10
