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  • The Freak Is Alive

    The Freak Is Alive

    Jesus to the effing Christ how desperately I have waited for this album to finally drop! This review was fully formed in my head long before tidings of a long-lusted-for release date reached my excited ears, and awaited only for said ears…

  • Matt’s Fave LOOK! Portraits

    Matt’s Fave LOOK! Portraits

    This was my fourth year covering Airwaves, and although it’s crazy every year, this was probably my busiest yet. It was my first time as a member of the official Airwaves photo team. It was a pleasure working with a crack team…

  • LOOK: It’s Momentum!

    LOOK: It’s Momentum!

    Local progressive metal champions Momentum have been going strong for eleven years. Tonight at 23:20, they’re playing their sole Airwaves gig at Gaukurinn, and as their live shows are the stuff of legend, you better make time for that. Momentum are the inaugural feature…

  • An Acceptable Night Out In The Cold – Hressó Pt. 1

    An Acceptable Night Out In The Cold – Hressó Pt. 1

    Sitting down in a booth at Hressó, like so many times before, I raised an eyebrow as a female led group joyfully played through pop songs on stage, smiling from ear to ear – this didn’t sound at all like what I…

  • Muck Me, I’m Glad We Metz

    Muck Me, I’m Glad We Metz

    The lovely Torontonians made sure to shred, rip, tear and murder everything they could in the most efficient manner imaginable with the time allotted to them. And like true Canadians, they politely bade the attendees “a great night” and to “take care”…

  • Life Is Wonderful! Grapevine’s FANCY Iceland Airwaves 2013 Compilation Is Here!

    Wow, guys. Just think how much time, energy, effort and resources it takes to create a finished music recording. I mean, there’s the instruments – the years of learning, the borrowing and buying, the stringing, tuning and and playing – and that’s…

  • Instrumetal And Experimetal // And With A Growl, It Was Over…

    So Iceland Airwaves 2012 comes to a close. The festival where everything that could go wrong went wrong. A festival that was lacking in breathtaking new discoveries and crazy live performances. But it was also a festival where the Icelandic bands stepped…

  • Crack Sounds

    It is pretty safe to say that Gunslinger is probably the most interesting thing to ever come out of Egilsstaðir. But they might also be the most interesting band in Icelandic hard-core. Their music consists of fantastically arranged blend of brutal, technical…