Eric Mackinnon
Long time journo who sold his soul to newspapers to fund his passion of following rock and metal bands around Europe. A regular gig-goer, tour-traveller and festival scribe who has broken stories of some of the biggest bands in the world and interviewed most. Even had a trifle with Slash once. Lover of bourbon, 80's rock and is a self-confessed tattoo addict.
Music Reviews

ALBUM REVIEW: LIPZ – Changing The Melody

Inject this glitter in our veins and take us back to the glory days of guitar-led glam rock and the mid 1980s. LIPZ have released their album 'Changing The Melody' and having had it on repeat for more than two weeks, we can confirm this is a certified banger.
Music Reviews

ALBUM REVIEW: Dogma – Dogma

Dogma are a quartet of foot stompin’, hair swingin’, riff rattlin’ and surprisingly impressive hard rocking nuns. The band’s debut album dropped last month via MNRK Heavy, with an eleven track slab of bodacious, bombastic arena-rocking tunes.
Music Reviews

ALBUM REVIEW: Wargasm – Venom

Wargasm have tooled up, armed themselves to their musical teeth and are at their heaviest to date, with their raw, ferocious, ambitious must-listen, ignore-them-at-your-peril debut album 'Venom'.
Features

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Creeper

Creeper are a band who don’t do anything by halves. They love a dramatic exit, a sabbatical of deathly silence before a glorious musical rebirth in a style unlike anything they have done before. This time around, after frontman William von Ghould’s on-stage decapitation, the band are back with their most flamboyant, ambitious, riff-laden and dark narrative to date, with new album 'Sanguivore' - set in the underworld of vampires Spook and Mercy. The band’s chief axeman Ian Miles sat down with Bring The Noise UK to lift the lid on the new record.
Music Reviews

ALBUM REVIEW: Creeper – Sanguivore

Nobody does a dramatic exit quite like Creeper, and nobody does escapism within a world of music and commitment to a theme quite like them either. The latest slice of musical delight from Southampton’s finest is 'Sanguivore', which takes listeners by the hand and, with two fangs on the neck, into the dark, alluring and bloody world of vampire lore.
Interviews

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Epica

We caught up with Epica guitarist Isaac Delahaye ahead of their set at Download Festival, to discuss their recent shows with Metallica, their appearance at the mighty Donington and what's next for the symphonic metal sextet.
Interviews

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Mimi Barks

Reflecting on her Download debut, you couldn’t take the smile of Mimi Barks’ face with an angle grinder. She’s full of smiles, happy energy and a much calmer, more toned down version of the performer who didn’t just star on the Dogtooth, she owned it. We caught up at Download to discuss her festival performance, 'DEADGIRL' mixtape and more.
Interviews

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Bambie Thug

Bambie Thug says that performing live is like therapy for them. It provides a much needed release from the pent-up emotions, frustrations and anger of life, feelings they keep to themselves until they explode on stage in a musical display of cross-genre mashups. We caught up at Download Festival to discuss their songwriting and lyrics, their live collaboration with Mimi Barks and more.
Interviews

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Punk Rock Factory

Punk Rock Factory were never meant to be play at Download Festival. In fact, they were never even meant to play anywhere live, reveals drummer Andrew 'Kob' Robinson. The band, who take all your favourite show tunes, Disney movie themes and well known bangers, and dip them in the well of sugar sweet pop-punk, were only a lockdown escape from the chaos of the pandemic. But now, they are making a living touring the world and playing to a sea of fists in the air as far as the eye can see.
Interviews

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Taylor Acorn

“Yesterday I started losing my voice a little but I got through it,” Taylor Acorn beams through a massive smile and pearly white teeth. Her joy at making not only her Download Festival debut, but her first ever appearance in the UK, is undeniable. She’s buzzing, electric and still full of adrenaline as she sits down with Bring The Noise UK behind the Kerrang! Avalanche Stage at Download.
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