Latest CD Reviews
The Hell - Sauve Les Requins   The Hell - Sauve Les Requins

If you are a regular reader of Alternative Vision then you will know that I love Alkaline Trio and pretty much anything that Matt Skiba or the other members of the band get up and at the moment Matt Skiba has gone all out with side projects with the recent announcement of Matt Skiba And The Sekrets signing to Superball Music [ click for full review ]
Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood Of Colour   Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood Of Colour

I have been following Enter Shikari since pretty much the start of their musical journey and throughout the years the band have got better and better and have been away working on their third album ‘A Flash Flood Of Colour’ for a long time now and it has just been released and mid week records show that the album is cruising [ click for full review ]
Evanescence - Evanescence  

Evanescence - Evanescence

When you actually think about it, it’s ridiculous how much commercial success Evanescence have had up to this point with this being merely their their 3rd album. Usually by this point in a bands career most would just be beginning to break through and catch a break or 2 but these guys have been in the spotlight since [ click for full review ]

Cold - Superfiction   Cold - Superfiction

From what I can gather, Cold are a band that have a rather large following and high profile shows in the States selling 2 million albums over there in fact, but over here in international territory, over their 15 year career. Their older material was a really thick grungy style of music but then starting with 2005’s “A Different Kind of Pain” the [ click for full review ]
 Latest Gig Reviews
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The Misfits
Birmingham Ballroom
3rd February 2012
Those Furious Flames and JuiceheaD

   
It's a freezing cold night in Birmingham but luckily I've got a night of old school punk to look forward to, as tonight I get to see the legendary Misfits! [ click for full review ]

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Biohazard
Heights, Lionheart, Dripback
Birmingham - Hmv Institute library
2nd February 2012

   
Dripback are the first up tonight, and are pretty much beset with a problem to one of the guitarists amp heads, which causes him to miss some of the set, but gets back into it somewhere near the end, the sound does get a mishmash at times trying to identify which genre it's supposed to be, can't say I'm a fan of the screamed vocals but he's aggressively delivered like the music, I've never [ click for full review ]

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