Diary Of A Rock Photographer

WATCH HERE   As Heard on Spotify’s New Noise and Fierce Femmes ALT PRESS ‘100 BANDS YOU NEED TO KNOW’ (Newsstands Feb 2021) “Flashes of punk vibrancy and riot grrrl attitude.” Kerrang! “Deep cutting emotions…mature and evolved.” American Songwriter “For fans of BANKS and Lorde comes a simmering new presence.” Wonderland THE HAUNT dip deeper into the vibrancy of Social Intercourse with the interstellar exoskeleton “Wish You Stayed”.  Written by vocalist Anastasia Grace, along with producer Matt Good, known for expertly fusing genres, styles and moods for career-defining albums by Asking Alexandria, Hollywood Undead, and Sleeping with Sirens, “Wish You Stayed” swirls with an orchestral electronic panache before exploding with…

BAEST come from Aarhus in Denmark and have successfully established themselves as one of the country’s most promising metal acts in recent years. While deeply rooted in straight-forward classic death metal inspired by genre legends like Dismember, Entombed, Morbid Angel, Death, and Bolt Thrower, the 2015 formed band evolved from a Danish underground phenomenon to an internationally touring act (2018 tour with Abbath, 2019 EU/UK trek with Decapitated). Also, at festivals like Summer Breeze, Copenhell, Ruhrpott Metal Meeting, Roskilde, they left audiences impressed and begging for more. After their already praised debut album “Danse Macabre” the band took it to the next level in 2019 and delivered “Venenum” where they…

WOLF – Stockholm’s Metal Alliance joins forces for “Stream Bloody Stream” Live Event  On January 30th , 2021 (Saturday) at 7.15pm CET, an alliance of Stockholm’s finest metal acts including heavy metal legends WOLF, epic doom lords SORCERER, progressive death metallers DESCEND and the tough, gritty 70’s sound hardrockers LUGNET will join forces during an almost 5-hour live stream called “Stream Bloody Stream”. Each band will perform a 45-minutes live set from a professional stage setting in Stockholm’s famous Popskolan. The show as well as tickets are available via HERE! During the change-overs host Henrik ‘Henke’ Brannerydh – known from the Swedish podcast “Rockpodden” – will take the audience for a backstage…

  To celebrate the release of their highly acclaimed album “Surrender”, Swedish premium rockers DEAD LORD recorded a live show at Studio Kapsylen which will be streamed on youtube on January 28th, 2021 (Thursday) at 8pm CET. The show will be available as a free stream and can be seen HERE. The full show will be available for a limited amount of time, so don’t miss it! To heat up the engines, the band comments their release show as follows: “Remember fun? What it felt like hear loud electric guitars, the crashing of the drums, or the rumble of the bass? Do you remember how good the beer tasted when it…

  London, Tuesday 19 January, 2021: The Crobar, the much-loved rock and metal establishment on Manette Street, Soho, reaches the halfway mark since starting its #crofund.   When The Crobar announced its closure, fans around the world contributed to an online raffle to win big prizes like Dave Grohl’s drum cymbal to help pay the bar staff who found themselves permanently out of work, raising £20,000.   It kickstarted the campaign to reopen the bar, collaborating with the #SaveOurVenues, #WeMakeEvents, #SaveSoho and #LetTheMusicPlay social and community movements.   As the pandemic continues to claim the existence of many more beloved music venues and bars across the country, The Crobar fan…

EYEHATEGOD RELEASE NEW SONG “FAKE WHAT’S YOURS”  NEW ALBUM A HISTORY OF NOMADIC BEHAVIOR ARRIVES MARCH 12 VIA CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS   Photo credit: Travis Shinn   Eyehategod, who recently announced their first new album in seven years, A History of Nomadic Behavior (out March 12 on Century Media Records), have debuted a second single from the twelve song album, releasing “Fake What’s Yours” with an accompanying visualizer which you can check out here. “’Fake What’s Yours’ is the second single from our new album, A History of Nomadic Behavior, and it’s a pure uncut chunk of anti-authoritarian preach-speak set to a condescending guitar riff that could only be born from the dirty streets of New Orleans,” says…

BORSTAL, the brand new UKHC band featuring Pierre Mendivil (Knuckledust), Nick Barker (Brujeria, ex-Cradle Of Filth/Dimmu Borgir/Testament) and members of Dripback and King Of Pigs have dropped a video for their debut single “Vicious Circles”.   Check it out here: https://youtu.be/qLCX-kzjyiw  BORSTAL are set to release their much-anticipated debut EP titled “At Her Majesty’s Pleasure” via 4Family Records on April 1st.   The EP was recorded, mixed and mastered at Monolith Studios by Charlie “Squid Commander” Wilson in Tottenham (September 2020). The EP also features a cover version of The Last Resort’s “King Of The Jungle”, featuring a guest appearance by non-other than Brit Oi legend, Mr Arthur Kitchener, father…

The legendary Dutch Death Doom Elite ASPHYX will soon be releasing their much anticipated new, 10th full studio album “Necroceros” worldwide on January 22nd, 2021 via Century Media Records. ASPHYX are now launching a new single for the album with the song “The Nameless Elite” today, which can also be seen in a video created by Maurice Swinkels / Younique Film (Legion Of The Damned, Exodus, Kataklysm, etc.) here: https://youtu.be/RnlmBNeopmE ASPHYX frontman Martin van Drunen checked in about the song and clip as follows: “This third single of our forthcoming ‘Necroceros’ album is entitled “The Nameless Elite” and is about modern-day warfare, especially about the brave men and women in the many…

“It’s such a wonderful thing when a new band pops up that is so exciting, so impossible to ignore, that not only do they stand out from the pack, they positively leap out of it and hang off of your ears. Atlanta’s Starbenders did exactly that.” – LA Weekly   As the world gazes up at the sky for Jupiter and Saturn to unite in Aquarius, Starbenders have immortalized the Great Conjunction with a live video of their single, ‘Holy Mother’. The band captured what they do best, playing live while feeding off of one another’s energy. ‘Holy Mother’ is sonically built upon a Godzilla-sized riff which provides the perfect launchpad for Kimi Shelter’s signature raven-winged vocals. Speaking about the music video, Kimi Shelter shared:…