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When something goes wrong with your bass amp, the show must go on. Aiden Hatfield of UtoXator’s best air-guitar at Veins’ Self-Titled EP launch.

|| Packhorse, Leeds, UK

|| 27.06.15

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utoXator - Songs from the City...Tales of our Sea

utoXator – Songs from the City…Tales of our Sea

Formed in Whitby in 2003 and now based in Leeds utoXator release their second E.P. ‘Songs From The City …Tales of Our Sea’ via Rock Paper Scissors records on 21st March 2015 with an official launch party at The Key Club, Leeds in association with Slam Dunk that day (details Continue reading on utoXator – Songs from the City…Tales of our Sea.

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Live Review: Idiom & The Smoking Hearts at Fibbers, York

8th October 2013

Words & Photo: Daniel Mulley

Support: utoXator & The Bastard Sons

utoXator enter the stage and the first two songs nearly did my ears some damage however it was only due to the sound guy obviously having the levels wrong as these guys were musically awesome! I was really suprised by the amount of talent playing to the few people here. utoXator are a well balanced mix of heavy breakdowns, catchy riffs, awesome singing and screaming with quirky off beat timings to break up the songs and add that something extra. If I could introduce you to some really great new music, it would be utoXator!

Id liken these to Rise Against and InMe with the screaming of early Funeral for a Friend.

The Bastard sons are up next and don't start! I know this is an extremely bias review being best man for the guitarist Alex two days ago but The Bastard Sons are a truly great band, to be honest, if I thought they were shit then I wouldn't be bothering at all! These guys have a truly awesome stage presence particularly front man JJ Jackson who rocks out like a hairy drunken gorilla even when sober (definitely not sober) Really well worked out Southern style rock mixed with metal. Anything these guys have recorded really doesn't portray the absolute brutality of the live performance! Made exceptionally apparent by JJ's lack of breath after the second song. With catchy as hell guitar harmonies, and riffs that bounce off each other in perfect timing, these guys are ones to watch! 'Winter' is a fantastic song with lyrics about Game of Thrones absolutely great to sing along to! The Bastard Sons rip up the stage each song as up beat and catchy as the last, they end the set to the epic chants and guitar tapping of 'Salem's rot' to be fair this is one of the best sounding performances I have seen from these guys.

The first of the co-headliners The Smoking Hearts open with a metric fuck-ton of alternating screams between frontman Ben and bassist Calvin, the first song soon gets everyone involved by yelling "this is time to destroy" then blowing straight into a squealing guitar solo. Introducing the next song as a 'fast heavy one' I'm surprised they can top the first one but am soon proved wrong as a wall of sound comes at me with a vengeance! Not the best sounding singing tonight but The Smoking Hearts do their best to make up for this with the intensity of the screaming, guitar and drums are technically great! We are introduced to 'shred and destroy' described as their punk song and it certainly is, punk mixed with metal, this fast paced track with plenty of screaming chants gets people moving. 'Stomper' for the ladies, this will be interesting! Slower than the rest of the set but equally as brutal! Ben throws his mic into the crowd to be grabbed by Idiom's frontman Matt Sharland for joint screaming then launched back and forward between them, a great touch which added something a bit different to the performance, I really liked it, but it could only work for a small crowd such as this. That is one hella long mic lead as Ben runs to the back of the venue to sit on the bar for the end of the last song!

Idiom break on to the stage with rocky riffs and plenty more screaming, there is a very Rage Against the Machine feel to this then into Incubus style singing from Matt, melodic guitars and a bit of Beastie Boys style rapping. Such an energetic band, these guys are owning the place, and literally bouncing off the walls, it is really contagious as everyone is soon clapping and moving along with the music. Not often a metal band has such a fun demeanour. Idiom get us to yell 'when is all said and done' and even with the limited people here it sounds epic! This is some great music to rock out to. Idiom then win me over with an incredible metal cover of Alex Clare's 'Too close' which is really well thought out and performed, then straight into a fast paced heavy as shit song with epic half time choruses Brutal 'Beast of Bodmin' up next with some incredibly severe drum fills, definitely their heaviest song. Really awesome performance from these guys, really recommend checking them out as soon as you can!

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Last Night Was Awesome

I went to go see this band called Dreamcatcher, who Ive known since i was in year 8 and last night was their album release and they were so good. Their style of musics not what I'd normally listen to but the epic amount of thought and skill that's been put into the layering of their instruments to create the most technical and melodic progmetal was just mind blowing. Everything about them just screamed that what they were doing was just so right for them. But the thing that made the night so awesome was that the band that supported them, Utoxator, were fucking awesome too, and these guys were exactly my type of music. They had the most explosive energy and the music they played was fucking awesome. I think it really makes a night when there's an epic support for an epic band. I'm definitely going to go see them again. -J So yeah if your from Leeds and you like sort of post hardcore punk type music, then go see Utoxator on the 30th March at The Well, and if by any chance your going to go see Glamour Of The Kill on the 2nd April at The Cockpit, you'll see them anyway If you like Melodic Progmetal that will blow your mind go see Dreamcatcher on the 4th April at The Leeds Met Student Union (I think) Ive hyperlinked the bands go have a listen