Elliot Leaver, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

FESTIVAL REVIEW: Noizzefest 2024

It was ten years ago that Jac Holloway, at the time working in the legendary Fuel rock club in Cardiff, came up

Kris Barras has led a colourful life. As it stands, he’s living his childhood dream of being a successful musician,

As far as the late, great Ronnie James Dio was concerned, it was to be a one-off. When HEAVEN &

KILL THE LIGHTS, the transatlantic supergroup featuring former members of BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, STILL REMAINS, THROW THE FIGHT and THREAT SIGNAL,

Slam metal – invented (probably) when a grindcore band thought ‘let’s add some brutally quick death metal to this, making

It’s early 1993. On the banks of the River Thames, on a converted grandboat named Astoria, three men convene to

He’s inspired people the world over to pick up a guitar for over twenty years. He’s guested on no less

God bless DRAGONFORCE and their steadfast refusal to let go of the cheese they have clung onto with a vicelike grip since

A Saturday night in Nottingham is always vibrant, whether you’re hitting the town for the bars and clubs or, in

Concept albums are generally dark affairs. 1982’s The Wall by PINK FLOYD talks about the descent into madness of a rockstar burdened by