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Festival review: Sonisphere Sweden (Stockholm), 7 August 2010

Not even torrential rainfall could keep 47,000 Swedes (and at least one Aussie) from witnessing that which is SONISPHERE, arguably Europe's biggest and best touring metal festival.
Event Reviewed: 
Sonisphere, Stockholm 2010

I had been counting down the days to this event since I bought the tickets in March.

Fatal Embrace - Empires of Humanity (Metal Blade/Riot)

Veteran Germans long on talent but short on originality return for some more heads-down, no nonsense mindless boogie.

The trouble, of course, is that it’s all so derivative. Good, but derivative.

Back to the Future with Scott Adams

Dodgy market traders, shacks in the West End of London, Fast Eddie Clarke - this must be Back to The Future, 1985 style!

There was a bloke who ran a stall on Maidenhead Market – known only as Punky, despite his advanced age and long, straggly hair – who, despite being quite obviously dodgy as fuck, was a

I Exist - I: A Turn for the Worse (Common Bond)

Canberra. Staid? Boring? In a chimp's cock on the evidence of this...

For old bastards like myself, the word hardcore does not now conjure up good thoughts.

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’.

Slayer and Megadeth, Challenge Stadium (Perth), 12/10/2009

A live performance review is supposed to be a carefully written critical account of an event, stemming from the reviewer’s observations and notes on the band’s performance, song selection and delivery, the audio quality, lighting and other venue-influenced factors, and the crowd response. Fuck me. This is just not that kind of review.

Meg-a-deth! Meg-a-deth!

Sllllaaaaaayyyyyeeeeeeerrr!

Blood and Metal under the Southern Cross - Slayer's Kerry King

A Hulking, imposing and undisputed god of metal, Kerry King, guitarist of the fabled and celebrated Slayer talks to Metal as Fuck on their unprecedented tour of Australia in partnership with Megadeth.

While I was waiting for Slayer founding guitarist Kerry King to arrive at a conference room tucked away in a stately five-star hotel in Melbourne, Australia, a por

Slayer cancel Adelaide show

Slayer's Adelaide show has been cancelled due to illness, meaning that Megadeth will be playing an extended set.

 

The promoters announced today:

 

Switchblade scores Slayer support for Reign in Blood

Sydney melodic death metal band Switchblade has scored the support for Slayer's one off Reign in Blood show on Thursday October 15, at the Big Top, Luna Park in Sydney. The show is all ages and tickets are still available through Ticketek and Utopia Records.

 

Slayer to play extra Sydney show

Slayer announces a special one time only Australian show featuring their metal masterpiece Reign in Blood played in it's entirety!