Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
They say choose a side but sometimes the side they want you select is wrong, your gut tells you so, your brain agrees and so you can only line up with those who are frowned upon by certain sections of society, place two fingers up to derision and the raised eyebrow of hate and sit back comfortably in the knowledge that might is a dead concept, what matters is what is right in your heart, that you can say proudly, We Are Not Your Kind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
We see the Muse as a physical body, imagined perhaps with the ideals we seek out in those that make our hearts quicken, even skip a beat, as they call out like sirens held close between the rocks of sharpened perception, and the rough seas of hope that is always present, but which can turn to despair and take us down to the depths of our soul’s resilience. The Muse is painted as such to appeal, to make us recognise the human value in artistic pursuit, but sometimes it would be worth stepping back and seeing the Muse as something else entirely, as a place rather than a human being.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
“Prepare for Hell”, as the tour posters exclaimed, and whilst there was no sign of Dante anywhere in the vicinity, the heat, the taste of brimstone hanging in the air as if two Devils had had a 10 round fight over who would have the best seat in the house and the surely never imagined sight of one of the great Metal bands of their time, Slipknot, performing live on stage in the heart of Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8/10
Regret is such a hard emotion to deal with, especially when passions run deep at the loss of a friend or valued colleague. Things unsaid, half remembered conversations which were taken the wrong way can come back to haunt you and the only way at times to deal with the unhinged sentiment is write about it, no matter how long it takes, Time, in the end, has all the time it needs and for Metal sensations Slipkot, Time perhaps is on their side in their new release .5: The Gray Chapter.
Do you remember where you were when you heard Megadeth’s Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying or Rust in Peace, Sabbat’s Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays) or Skyclad’s Wayward Sons of Mother Earth for the first time? The temptation to add the latest album by Stone Sour, House of Gold and Bones Part 1, to these premium and top rated albums of the genre should not take long, all of the first listen will be enough to confirm that perhaps for the first time the band have created something intrinsically and artistically brilliant.