Live Review : At The Gates + Nifelheim + Deserted Fear @ Academy Club, Manchester on December 18th 2019

None of us here at ROCKFLESH towers are professional journalists. Sorry to burst your bubble, but we are all enthusiastic amateurs with day jobs in areas as diverse as educational administration, ICT, accountancy and Mental Health (the last one is me). We do this for the love of the music and frankly nothing else. Because of this, our reviews tend to be more passionate and less objective than the ones you would get in Metal Hammer, NME, Kerrang etc. We talk about bands that we adore and the reasons why we adore them. We describe how the shows make us feel. We also choose which shows we cover (none of us get paid for this and half the time we have to pay to get in with the rest of you) so we tend to end up at gigs of bands that we already are extremely emotionally attached to.

Gig ReviewAuthor : Stewart Lucas23 December 2019Academy ClubAt The GatesComment

Live Review : Behemoth + At The Gates + Wolves in The Throne Room @ O2 Ritz, Manchester on February 9th 2019

Tonight I am like some giddy teenager as this is simply put, my fantasy dream bill. Those hoping for an objective and balanced representation of the evening should probably look elsewhere. Openers Wolves In The Throne Room are in my completely biased opinion the most important thing to happen to Black Metal since its very inception all those blood red moons ago. They have stormed into its hallowed fortress, torn down the jet black drapes and let in the sunlight.

Gig ReviewAuthor : Stewart Lucas9 February 2019O2 RitzBehemoth, Wolves In The Throne Room, At The Gates, O2 Ritz, Manchester, Review, 2019, Stewart LucasComment