It wasn’t meant to happen this year, attending Download that is. For starters, the usual suspects couldn’t decide which day they would attend (we are always day ticketers) and then with rescheduled gigs, cancelled gigs (we miss you, Taylor Hawkins) and just general chaos - we were going to give it a miss. Then with … Continue reading Festival Review: Download 2022 (Sunday)
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Video Roundup: Destruction / Satanic Overdrive / Alestorm / Excuses Excuses / Helsott / Beriedir
Halfway through the first holiday week and it's about time for some noise and flickery pictures... Destruction This Friday, April 8, the world finally gets to celebrate Destruction' 40th anniversary with their hard-hitting full-length, Diabolical! On the new single "Repent Your Sins", the German thrash metal icons sound better than ever, fully displaying their unbeatable … Continue reading Video Roundup: Destruction / Satanic Overdrive / Alestorm / Excuses Excuses / Helsott / Beriedir
Alestorm releases live video of pirate metal anthem “Drink”
All aboard! The world’s favorite Pirate Metal Drinking Crew, Alestorm, are taking you on a wild, wet ride across the seven seas with their new live album/DVD/BluRay, Live in Tilburg, out May 28, 2021 via Napalm Records! Today, the wild bunch releases another song off the Live-DVD from their tremendous show in Tilburg, Netherlands! Alestorm … Continue reading Alestorm releases live video of pirate metal anthem “Drink”
2020 Crew Review: Iain “Mosh” Purdie – Editor in Chief/Grand Poobah
OK, then so it's time to draft some words about 2020 and try to make out that it's not been a cataclysmic shitstorm caused mainly by political ineptitude and a hyperactive microorganism. But I can't. Because it was. So I won't. Instead I'll focus mainly on the music side of things, which is surprisingly limited … Continue reading 2020 Crew Review: Iain “Mosh” Purdie – Editor in Chief/Grand Poobah
Alestorm: new album out today, celebrate with “Pirate Metal Drinking Crew” video
The notorious Pirate Kings Alestorm release their long-awaited long-player Curse Of The Crystal Coconut (review here) today via Napalm Records! In addition, they present their latest single, "Pirate Metal Drinking Crew" - an homage to pirate life and… probably themselves! Rhythmic guitars, slapping drums and Captain Bowes’ rum-laden vocals weave throughout the song and will have it … Continue reading Alestorm: new album out today, celebrate with “Pirate Metal Drinking Crew” video
Alestorm release “Fannybaws” video from new album
Alestorm have just released yet another banger fresh off their new album, Curse of the Crystal Coconut (which we reviewed recently), to be released via Napalm Records on May 29, 2020! “Fannybaws” tells the story of the fearsome pirate who killed the mighty terror squid and fought against the Vikings – wearing nothing but a … Continue reading Alestorm release “Fannybaws” video from new album