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I first heard about Power Metal Quest Festival via a Facebook link last year, it featured a competition to win a pair of tickets for the event. I was fortunate enough to win said competition, so travelled down to Birmingham with a friend for the weekend and really enjoyed PMQF 2018. After my positive experience … Continue reading LIVE REPORT: Power Metal Quest Fest – The Asylum, Birmingham 28.09.2019
The playlist has been updated and there has been a lot of releases and tours since festival season is now over. There have been an array of releases from Eclipse, Eleine, Insomnium, Unleash The Archers, Alter Bridge, A New Tomorrow and a few others. Gloryhammer released their single The Land Of Unicorns and they also … Continue reading ROCK OUT STAND OUT PLAYLIST 11.10.2019
This is a band and an album for lovers of classic heavy metal. SCREAMER are a Swedish group with traditional heavy metal sounds and values; they want to have a good time, party and make music. This is their fourth studio album since their 2017 release Hell Machine, and the first studio album on their … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Screamer – Highway Of Heroes
Today is Mental Health Awareness Day and here on Rock Out Stand Out, we will be honouring this day. As you may have noticed, there are some stories that are being shared and there is a playlist to help honour this day. This playlist includes songs by artists who sadly lost their lives to mental … Continue reading ROCK OUT STAND OUT PLAYLIST: MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS DAY
A few years ago, things looked bleak for Rock Out Stand Out editor in chief and founder Lotty Whittingham. Over the years, she found two things to be helpful; therapy and being brutally honest with her feelings. Here is her story. It’s coming up to four years since I decided to open up how I … Continue reading YOUR STORIES: Take Off The Mask – Be Brutally Honest
A few months ago, Jacob McCrone submitted a story about how a game helped him overcome depression. Now he is writing for Rock Out Stand Out, he has researched into body dysmorphia amongst men in the metal scene and has written a piece. Here is what he found out. I was at Bloodstock a few … Continue reading YOUR STORIES: Body Dysmorphia In The Metal Scene
Band manager Andy Ayres shares his story battling depression in his teenage years and how two very important people in his life helped towards his recovery. It took me many years and a brilliant GP to recognise my anxiety and clinical depression. I had grown up in my school years as so many kids today … Continue reading YOUR STORIES: Many Years To Recognise The Black Dog
Rock isn't dead and bands like ECLIPSE prove this is the case. If you are wishing for further evidence to support this claim, look no further than their upcoming release Paradigm. This will be their seventh studio album to be added to their already solid discography. The album kicks off with a mighty opener Viva … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Eclipse – Paradigm
THRASHFIRE are a Thrash band from Turkey who started their musical journey in 2006. Their latest record Into The Armageddon proceeds two EPs and their debut album Thrash Burned The Hell from 2011. They were signed to Xtreem Music in 2015; which lead to the release of their second EP - Vengeance of Fire, many … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Thrashfire – Into The Armageddon
Atmospheric black metal is a difficult thing to do right. You need the melodic elements to keep it interesting for the listeners but too many that it loses the power it gains from the raw sound that typifies the genre. One-man act ARX ATRATA achieves somewhere close to this for their latest release The Path … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Arx Atrata – The Path Untravelled