Saxon

Saxon – O2 Academy (Oxford, UK) 13, Dec 2011

It has been 20 years since Saxon last rocked Oxford. Tonight was an electric return.

Two walls of black amplifiers branded with the famous Marshall name stand in formidable line at the back of the O2 Academy Oxford stage.

Saxon: Back to the UK for Pre-Christmas Tour

The Barnsley Big Teasers get their whistling teeth in order for a brief run of festive dates!

Never tired of the road, British metal veterans Saxon will be returning to the UK for the second time this year with a string of live shows in December, supported by Swedish power

Saxon and The Sword sidewaves announced

Presented by Faster Louder and Soundwave Touring, Saxon, along with The Sword are hitting up Melbourne and Sydney for sidewave shows

And the great sidewave announcements just keep on coming, with British metal heavyweights Saxon set to hit Melbourne and Sydney with American metal outfit The Sword

Cauldron - Burning Fortune (Earache/Riot)

Cauldron keep the formula simple, the way it used to be, before metal got complicated and broken down into so many sub-genre's there's barely a day goes by before a new one pops up!
Release Date: 
14 Feb 2011 - 10:30am

Sometimes keeping it simple works, sometimes you don't need all the bells and whistles added to make an album different. What Cauldron offer up with this album is just that.

Tank - War Machine (Metal Mind)

To paraphrase someone very famous - they've been a long time coming but they're here at last...

Veteran British rockers Tank, as you&rsq

Soundwave 2011 - Second and final artist announcement

As if the first one wasn't awesome enough, the second and final artist announcement for Soundwave 2011 ensures that this'll be one hell of a festival.

Soundwave Touring presents you with the second and final artist announcement!

From the Archives: Bloodstock '02

As festival fever appears to have us all in its grip, our regular columnist Scott Adams had a root about in his attic and found this review of the second Bloodstock festival, held at the Derby Assembly rooms in the late summer of 2002. Enjoy!

Back to the Future With Scott Adams

It's 1984... and there's not a sex crime or, luckily, The Eurhythmics, in sight.

George Orwell got a lot of things right about 1984 in his book of the same name; but what he failed to predict was that the year would be absolutely titanic for ‘our kind of music’.

Bloodstock Open Air- Day 1: Confessions of a man (mad enough to live amongst mullets).

Three days in a field, surrounded by hessians, booze and burger vans. Is this hell? No. It's Derby. Metal as Fuck attended the Bloodstock Open Air festival and got its face blasted to bits by metal. Read on!
Event Reviewed: 
Bloodstock Open Air

 

Saxon - Into the Labyrinth (SPV/Riot)

With Saxon, you always know what you're going to get. But that doesn't make it any the less enjoyable.