Katie's review of this year's Tons of Rock is, like the festival itself, massive - so we're splitting it into three bite-size chunks. Even then, they're still bite-size to a large, scary Viking. Here's the first serving, covering June 22nd at Fredrikstern Fortress, Halden, Norway. Day One At ridiculous-o'clock in the morning on Thursday I headed … Continue reading Festival Review: Tons of Rock 2017 – Day One
Tag: Eluveitie
Album News: Civil War, Eluveitie, Sixx:A.M., Iggy Pop
Kicking off the week with a quick newsdrop... Civil War Fear an eruption of Sweden's landmass! Fear the fire, creaking steel and scattered mud! Civil War are back and shooting martial anthems into the darkened sky. On November 4th the proud Heavy Metal-hitmakers are releasing their third epos The Last Full Measure. The quintet with … Continue reading Album News: Civil War, Eluveitie, Sixx:A.M., Iggy Pop
Eluveitie part ways with three members
Sutter (drums), Anna Murphy (vocals) and Ivo Henzi (guitar). The final shows that these members play will be the Fortarock Festival in Nijmegen (NL). But the band will play all confirmed future shows with stand-in-musicians (until new members are confirmed). The band just released this official statement: With a heavy heart we have to announce … Continue reading Eluveitie part ways with three members
Epica/Eluveitie/Scar Symmetry – The Garage, Glasgow (14th November 2015)
[avatar user="Lara" size="50" align="left" /] It's Saturday night in Glasgow and well ahead of the opening time for the show, people are forming a long orderly queue in the rain outside the venue. Tonight’s headliner are Dutch symphonic metal giants Epica, a band we had not seen in Glasgow since 2012. This time around though they … Continue reading Epica/Eluveitie/Scar Symmetry – The Garage, Glasgow (14th November 2015)
Epica announce UK tour
Dutch Symphonic Metallers Epica will embark on a Nationwide UK tour this coming November, they are in support of 2014’s critically-acclaimed studio album The Quantum Enigma. Epica performed a magical set in London in December last year selling out The London Forum as part of their European Enigma tour. The band are now thrilled to … Continue reading Epica announce UK tour
2014 Year In Review: Top albums – Mosh
[avatar user="Mosh" size="50" align="left" /]Just realised that I hadn't added my own thoughts to the top tunes of the year, so here we go... and it's not going to be easy. I'm tempted to include albums I encountered this year as well as those released since January 1st but that would be cheating! So albums … Continue reading 2014 Year In Review: Top albums – Mosh