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The best five tracks of 2005.
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Into the Pit: 021: Chimaira – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 05-December 2005
I only caught the second half of the first support Hatesphere‘s set. And they were pretty damned good, too. Good old-school thrash, really – from a band that clearly loved what they were doing, and that enthusiasm rubbed off on the crowd. The lead singer provided the quotes of the night, too: “Here’s a song […]
Into the Pit: 020: My Dying Bride – Live at Rios, Bradford – 19-November 2005
Support act Novembre (I missed first band The Prophecy) were ok, and evidently loved by a good proportion of the crowd, but not really to my taste. Standard doom, really, with a lot of each track on a DAT – made all the more obvious by their brave cover of Stripped. Full marks for effort, […]
Into the Pit: 019: Ultraviolence – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 12-November 2005
The gig last night was interesting. The support acts were both great, while the headliner was on autopilot – and mightily pissed.
Into the Pit: 018: Rico – Live at Academy 3 Manchester – 04-November 2005
I’ve been waiting patiently for over six years for another chance to see Rico live (at Reading in ’99), so to say I was looking forward to it was something of an understatement.
Into the Pit: 017: KMFDM – Live in Nottingham – 26-October 2005
According to the tickets/info, doors were at 1930. No-one appeared to have bothered to told the bands, as we eventually were let in at five to nine. When the tickets have cost £14.50 each, in my mind that is taking the piss. First band were on sharpish, unsurprisingly – although I think most people in […]
Into the Pit: 016: 65daysofstatic – Live at Fuzz Club Sheffield – 13-October 2005
First band on were The Mirimar Disaster, a local band fronted by well-known local metal DJ Stocky. A good crowd for a still small band, and they benefitted strongly from the powerful sound set-up. A disparate mix of metal stylings, but very much at the avant garde end of things – we counted something like […]
Memory of a Festival: 002: Infest 2005
OK, so where do we start? Well, overall, this year’s Infest has been fantastic fun. As always, it is so much more than the bands – the friendly atmosphere and time to catch up with friends ensure that. But the bands are generally well worth seeing. Didn’t catch all of them this year, and not […]
Into the Pit: 015: Skinny Puppy – Live in Manchester – 08-August 2005
First, the bad points. Due to what appeared to be perhaps a lower turnout than expected, the gig got bumped from Academy 2 (the MDH) to Academy 3 (the Hop’n’Grape). So it was a little toasty. No support, either. Which made the next bit all the more annoying – a curfew at 2300, the band […]
Into the Pit: 014: Gotherham – Live at No.10 Rotherham – 23-July 2005
Yesterday evening was one where things did appear to go very right. The Gotherham gig was great, for all of the time that we could stay – apologies to Ryk and people for not being able to stick around, I had other commitments too!
Into the Pit: 013: Nine Inch Nails – Live at Apollo Manchester – 10-July 2005
On a hot and sticky night like last night, the Manchester Apollo is not among the list of places that I would rather normally be. But hey, this is different. I’ve waited too long, been jinxed too many times.
But Listen: 015: Cyanotic – Transhuman
And there was me thinking the US-industrial that I know and love was only to be a relic from the past in future.
Into the Pit: 012: 3ulogy – Live at The Grapes Sheffield – 13-June 2005
Last night’s gig at the Grapes was certainly interesting, and in some respects something of an eye-opener. Not a bad turnout, either, for a Monday night gig.
Into the Pit: 011: Mortiis – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 23-April 2005
As was to be expected, this was something of an odd night gig-wise. Four bands on, due to one reason or another first (local-ish) band The Nothing didn’t appear, so it was left to Panic DHH to open proceedings. And did they.
But Listen: 014: Systemyk – The Victim
Anytime I get given a [demo] CD with a “produced by [famous name]” I’m gonna at least take a look. As in this case, with “Produced by Gregor Mackintosh [Paradise Lost]” on the front. Granted, I had seen them live first. The famous connection will certainly do them no harm. Musicwise, they do bear some […]
But Listen: 013: Gothminister – Empire of Dark Salvation
I viewed Gothminister with something of suspicion first time around. Surely it was all tongue-in-cheek, right? The more I listened, the less it seemed to be. But then, with an album called Gothic Electronic Anthems – and to actually have an album stuffed full of them – made such points moot.
But Listen: 012: Interlock – Crisis//Reinvention
It’s been a while coming, this album. And it has certainly been worth the wait. After being voted “Best Unsigned Band” for 2004 by the readers of Terrorizer, they have been snapped up pretty quickly by Anticulture Records. Gone is the slightly flat and muddy sound of much of the earlier tracks, this album screams […]
But Listen: 011: Nekrodrako – Vitriol
I’ve always had something of a love-hate relationship with the idea of the side-project. Sometimes they are just a lazy attempt to get more attention to the “parent” band (it is not normally difficult to tell this: often any mention of the “new” band will show “x from y’s new project”, or something like), but […]
Into the Pit: 010: Queen Adreena – Live at Rock City Nottingham – 17-March 2005
It was somewhat surprising to recall, on the way to Nottingham, that it is nearly five years since I first (and last) saw Queen Adreena live, at the ill-fated Lost Weekend back in July 2000. Back then, they had not long since emerged from the long-dead ashes of Daisy Chainsaw, with one album (Taxidermy) only […]
But Listen: 010: Red20 – The Red Album
So yes, we have been trailing it for ages. Yes, I have played various versions of some of the tracks over the past few months. But listening to the album as a whole, it has some kind of visceral thrill to it. The big thing to note to start with, is how the band has […]