metal

At the end of January, Jake Longhurst sat down and had a chat with James Spence of Rolo Tomassi a week ahead of the release of their eagerly awaited sixth album 'Where Myth Becomes Memory' to talk all about the album, their upcoming headline tour, and free pianos. ...

As part of our ‘Impact’s Music Essentials’ series, Jake talks us through his top ten picks from the 80s/90s metal genre....

In 1970, what would soon be known as the dark phenomenon of the era, hard rock band Black Sabbath crept into the world of music with the release of their self-titled debut album. Sabbath took an interpretation of the psychedelic blues-rock of the time (cultivated by Led Zeppelin) and...

You hear a lot about artists in varying genres truly taking their sound or their area of music to a whole other level. Be it through lyrical meaning, album structure or perhaps just their exceptional execution, artists like Kendrick Lamar (for hip hop) or Ed Sheeran (for pop) are...

Filling out a 2,450 person capped venue such as Rock City on a rainy Tuesday evening in November is not an easy task, but performing as the opening act in such circumstances is a different matter entirely. However this was a task Californian post-hardcore band Stick to Your Guns...

Walking into Rescue Rooms, one immediately became aware of the gravity of this show for everyone involved in Heck as well as everyone that had any interest in seeing the band succeed. This was the show. The biggest venue the band had headlined. The biggest stage production they had...

Admittedly TesseracT were not a band I knew particularly well. As I ran into Rescue Rooms it briefly occurred to me that the only thing I remembered about them, besides the fact that they classify themselves as being progressive metal, was the fact that like me, their hometown was...