BRITISH STEEL

Something appetising is brewing u come take a sip. Blighty (thatAEs Great Britain to you non-Brits) 2017, the ostensible home of Heavy Metal, is spawning quality and varied acts ready to compete with the best of our neighbours. A younger generation, brought up with a broad knowledge of heavy music, have decided that they arenAEt interested in pushing the boundaries of technique, production and extremity. Instead, these bucks seek only to find their own sound and write songs of the quality they grew up with on the family stereo. This passion for heavy music gives these aesons of their fathersAE the confidence to make exactly the music they want. Accusations and labels like aeretroAE and aeold schoolAE roll like water off a metallic aquatic. If you plug away passionately for more or less ten years to tiny crowds with little or no support, itAEs hard to engage with such negativity. And make no mistake, all of the acts here live and breathe this stuff. TheyAEve been playing since they were teens, youAEll see them front row at all the shows, and if no-one is offering gigs theyAEll put them on themselves. And itAEs no lie to say we had too much choice for this Steel platter. Our cup overfloweth! So is this a movement' Do we name it and define it' Nope, for to do so would allow us to dismiss it and this varied buffet is not going away. So letAEs introduce the players... Amulet, Aggressive Perfector, Eliminator, Dungeon, Dark Forest, Toledo Steel, Vuil, Seven Sisters, Insurgency, Neuronspoil, and Wytch Hazel.'