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Live Review: Blood Incantation – Manchester
Live Review: Blood Incantation – Albert Hall, Manchester 8th October 2025 Words: Dan Barnes Photos: Rich Price At first consideration, a death metal gig at […]
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Live Review: Parkway Drive – Manchester
Live Review: Parkway Drive – AO Arena, Manchester Support: The Amity Affliction, Thy Art Is Murder 6th October 2025 Words: Dan Barnes Photos: Tim Finch […]
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Damnation Festival Retrospective : A Second Decade of Damnation
Damnation Festival Retrospective : A Second Decade of Damnation by Dan Barnes Yesterday, in Part 1 of this feature we looked at the first decade […]
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Damnation Festival Retrospective : The First Decade
Damnation Festival Retrospective : The First Decade by Dan Barnes As the year draws to its close and those long summer days at Bloodstock and […]
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Live Review: Nekrogoblikon – Manchester
Live Review: Nekrogoblikon – Club Academy, Manchester 25th September 2025 Words: Dan Barnes Photos: Rich Price Certain religiously minded folks were predicting the Rapture this […]
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FESTIVAL PREVIEW: UK Slam Fest 2025
FESTIVAL PREVIEW: UK Slam Fest 2025 Words: Dan Barnes Photos: Tim Finch It’s been ten-years since the inaugural UK Slam Fest took place at the […]
Album Reviews
Album Review: Today Is The Day – Never Give In
Album Review: Today Is The Day – Never Give In Reviewed by Dan Barnes Nashville noise-mongers, Today Is the Day have been led by the […]
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Album Review: Besta – John Carpenter Redux
Album Review: Besta – John Carpenter Redux Reviewed by Dan Barnes I loves me some grindcore, and I loves me a John Carpenter movie; so […]
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Live Review: Portal – Manchester
Live Review: Portal – Rebellion, Manchester 18th September 2025 Words: Dan Barnes Photos: Rich Price I was at this very venue but forty-eight hours previous, […]
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Live Review: King 810 – Manchester
Live Review: King 810 – Rebellion, Manchester 16th September 2025 Words: Dan Barnes Photos: Rich Price Once hugely controversial Flint, MA, band, King 810 […]