Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The children of the night who serve the ideal that the journey is an adventure, no matter where it leads you, always seem to create the best music, as if they not only place themselves in the company of spirits and the bounty of storytellers who see the beauty and strength that comes from being Chased By Wolves and the sensual application of imagination.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
If the landscape and vision before you isn’t thrilling enough and making your heart beat faster, then move on, there is no law that states you have to be the same person that you were 12 months ago, there is no commandment that dictates you have to lead with your initial thought; indeed it is with an act of maturity and responsibility that your first read through ends up being the canvas for a piece of art of greater significance.
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In politics they say that history is written by the winners, however, in art, winners know when it is time to say goodbye to the form to which they have dedicated a substantial part of their lives to and unarguably been the leading stars of their chosen field; winners can be replaced, artists become eternal triumphs!
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
They say choose a side but sometimes the side they want you select is wrong, your gut tells you so, your brain agrees and so you can only line up with those who are frowned upon by certain sections of society, place two fingers up to derision and the raised eyebrow of hate and sit back comfortably in the knowledge that might is a dead concept, what matters is what is right in your heart, that you can say proudly, We Are Not Your Kind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We have become used to the bombardment of consistent cinematic heroes that we have forgotten what it meant to see a classic derived from the counter culture era, the type of which the anti-hero would step forth and take on our persona, in which the devilish grin would appear and find a way to morph into the face of Jack Nicholson, the smell of certain substances would pervade the watcher’s nostrils and the diffuse the expectations of the forewarned social norm.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Times change, the circle of life continues onto whatever path fate may have decreed, and which we can either negotiate a more fruitful path, or we can go along with the events strewn in our way. Maybe Half A Lifetime ago life was easier to navigate, maybe the songs had the softer edge of innocence attached to them, but we have chosen a path to which the signs point to a place in which none of us, bar the egotistical and masters of the sleight of hand, truly want to go.
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There is always a feel good factor that resides deep in the heart of Germany’s Godfathers of Metal, Helloween, that emulates the way the North American stalwarts and British pioneers of N.W.O.B.H.M to such an extent that when the songs of their back catalogue are unleashed, the sound created is one that cannot, must surely not, be ignored.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The world has you in its sights every day, the scope of your life is watched and noted down, any sign of vulnerability is used as an advantage over you and your time can be felt as if your spending is swimming against the tide. The expectation of conforming to a set of rules that never make sense is palpable and distracting; yet we still adhere to the idea of kill or cure, as if we are suffering from some insidious disease that requires treatment, that we suffer because we will not be compliant, instead preferring, quite rightly, to be rebellious.
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In a world not obsessed by gossip and the latest celebratory fashion, there are many artists who work quietly and with conscience in the seemingly dark background that would be seen for the absolute stars that they are, they would be taken on a journey around the lights of Piccadilly Circus or the incandescent displays of Broadway and Time Square instead of perhaps being seen on the billboards of the local train stations of Birmingham, calling at all stations between Stechford and Lee Green.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Duck and cover for the moment the insults hurl when you dare suggest that a premium British band’s latest work is not on the same scale that has once been; but in a world that sees offence as a right, occasionally you must withstand the silver bullet fired and be prepared to stand your ground. Duck perhaps, but not cover, for as long as the sentiment is true and not discourteous then ultimately what happens is that you hope the next album is a return to form, to be successful.