Opeth at Mean Fiddler, London 12/03/2003
(oli@rockmatrix.co.uk)
Four Swedes with big hair stand in front of a revolving pink logo. It's not quite what you'd expect from a metal band these days. It's all meant to be about spiky hair, turntablists, and appealing to demographics. But then Opeth have always confounded expectations and trends. So their image is resolutely 70's hippy rock, almost clones of Sabbath, yet...
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Festival Review - Bloodstock Open Air 2008
(alan@rockmatrix.co.uk)
Festival Review - Bloodstock Open Air 2008rnrnAs with each passing year we were once again confronted with the biggest Bloodstock Open Air festival so far.rnrnThe lucky campers who chose to spend the opening Thursday evening at the Lava stage were treated to CONQUEST OF STEEL (7.5/10). rnrn Bradfords trad metal heroes got the festival off to a perfect...
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Gig review - Opeth + Cynic + The Ocean @ Shepherds Bush Empire - 20/11/08
(lee@xtfx.co.uk)
With the popularity of this kind of metal, whether you choose to call it, experimental, progressive, technical or noise, at an all time high, it was no surprise to find the Empire sold out for this show. Whilst billed as an Opeth show, it was surprising to hear just how many people had bought their tickets purely to see Cynic, their name being uttered in...
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