film REVIEW: Kill Keith
Chris Ward takes a look at breakfast TV-spoofing British horror comedy Kill Keith and wonders “Why?”.
Chris Ward takes a look at breakfast TV-spoofing British horror comedy Kill Keith and wonders “Why?”.
Mix Buffy the Vampire Slayer with The Walking Dead, and add a few thousand geek references, and you have just an inkling of what Dana Fredsti’s latest novel Plague Town is like.
Prog rock duo OSI give you their fourth album. Will they be able to bring the thunder? (We make no apologies for that terrible joke)
Mastodon’s Brent Hinds brings us some forgotten gems from his past in this two-part album. Zakk Appleyard grapples with the split personality that is Fiend Without A Face/West End Motel.
Danny Heaton dons his board shorts and battle jacket to take the plunge with Californian thrashers Fueled By Fire.
Nicholas Cleeve takes a look over ‘Trial By Fire’, the debut album of one of Birmingham’s rising stars, power metal quintet Dakesis.
Phil Whitehouse donned his horned helm and packed his drinking horn for an evening of Viking-themed melodic death metal courtesy of Amon Amarth, with support from fellow Swedes, occult trad metallers In Solitude and heavy/doom metal power trio Grand Magus.
Ryan Neal delves into the vaults to unearth Woods of Ypres’ challenging fourth album, Woods 4: The Green Album.
Peter Allison meets the Boys from the Dwarf – Chris Barrie and Danny John Jules, AKA Rimmer and Cat – at the National Space Centre’s Brit SciFi, and talks about the new season and the comic success of Red Dwarf.
Ryan Scully tackles one of the best games in a long-forgotten genre…
Chris Ward checks out the full-length debut album from hotly tipped Brighton rockers Furyon.
Dave Fensome heads to the Islington Academy in London to check out a diverse evening of prog metal, post-rock, punk and technical metal.
Phil Whitehouse grills death metal quintet Job For A Cowboy’s vocalist Jonny Davy about overly homogenous touring packages, corrupt Arizona sheriffs and the relative coolness of Magic: The Gathering cards.
Ryan Neal shines a light on the final release by melancholic metallers Woods of Ypres.
Phil Whitehouse braved the St. Patrick’s Day Parade crowds in Birmingham’s Irish quarter to take in the decidely less jig-worthy fare on offer on the final date of Metal Hammer’s inaugual Destroyers of the Faith tour.
Nicholas Cleeve approaches the latest release from German symphonic metallers Xandria.
When two mighty fighting games clash, who wins? Gamers! Sort of – Leigh Forgie casts an eye over the carnage.
Nicholas Cleeve chats with Nils Middelhauve, bassist of symphonic metallers Xandria, about the writing and recording of their new album ‘Neverworld’s End’.
Danny Heaton reaches for his pipe. This time it won’t just be his teeth that are blackened as he spins the West Midlands’ newest heretics.
Chris Ward turns back the clock and listens to Relapse Records’ latest Death release, the live album Vivus!