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Fatal Vision Release New Single & Video ‘No More Tears To Cry’
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Live Review: Hypocrisy – Manchester
Live Review: Hypocrisy – Academy 2, Manchester
1st May 2026
Support: Vreid, VomitoryWords: Dan Barnes
Photos: Rich PriceFor the second consecutive night, Manchester’s Academy complex hosts an Incineration Festival warm-up show. Last night we witnessed Dragged Into Sunlight draining all hope from the basement, replacing it with a resounding sense of despair while, this evening, we’re up in the loftier environs of Academy 2 for a Scandinavian masterclass in Death Metal from some of that area’s current most accomplished exponents.
Rising from the ashes of Black Metal band Windir, following the tragic death of frontman, Valfar, Vreid have a long recording history of ten full-length albums, dating back to 2004. Tonight’s short opening set is limited to a mere half-a-dozen songs, but the band take Manchester on whistle-stop tour of their output since the beginning. Opening with Milorg’s Speak Goddamnit it’s plain that although the pagan fire of the Windir days may have passed, the essence of Black Metal still burns in the band’s dark hearts. More Black n’ Roll than pure evil, Pitch Black is littered with classic rock motifs and those carry over into the couple of tracks from this year’s The Skies Turn Black album.
Bassist Jarle Kvåle dedicates the title track to the Prince of Darkness himself – no, not Mandleson – but Ozzy, acknowledging Birmingham is about seventy miles south of here, but, hey – distance is relative. In contrast to Skies…’ clean guitar tones, there’s a grim and dirty feel to Into the Mountains, not as frostbitten as the standard BM tune, but certainly chilly, with some added folk elements. Ending with Lifehunger’s title tune, Vreid leave Manchester wanting more.
Photo Credit: Rich Price PhotographyIt’s a rare appearance in this part of the world for Swedes Vomitory who were last in town opening for Vader a few years back down at the Rebellion Bar. Making hay with the classic Swedish Death Metal sound is like shooting fish in a barrel tonight as there is a palpable hunger here for just such a thing. Another band with a ten-album discography, the band aim to please by visiting seven of those records in what feels like a victory parade. Revelation Nausea’s title track opens the account, showing Vomitory aren’t just here to promote a new album, and it shows the feral attitude the band had back in 2001. Another title track, this time Terror, Brutalise, Sodomize, hits next with rapid riffing, punchy percussion and animalistic barks: it’s Death Metal at its most primal.
Photo Credit: Rich Price PhotographyFor Gore and Country and Wrath Unbound, from this year’s In Death Throes album, demonstrate the energy and fire still rages, but do I hear a little bit of groove in there? I think I do. The stage lights go green for Rage of Honour, dedicated to Chuck Norris (R.I.P.), it’s suitably fast and furious and comes with not-so-hidden danger, and it’s here that the core of Vomitory’s sound can be heard, writ-large in the works of their fellow countrymen, who forged that idiosyncratic Swedish Death Metal sound; bands like Grave, Dismember and Unleashed and, of course, Entombed.
All Heads are Gonna Roll is a gut-punch of a tune, with a substantial low end, Opus Mortis VIII’s Regorge in the Morgue flies along with scant regard for public safety and the band seem to be purring like a perfectly tuned engine when Chaos Fury brings it all to an end in a fittingly frantic fashion.
Photo Credit: Rich Price PhotographyFellow Swedes Hypocrisy have brought all the bells and whistles with them for this warm-up show, as tomorrow – or today as write – the band will be headlining the Electric Ballroom stage at London’s Incineration Festival. Tonight is an opportunity to test the screens on the UK’s electrical supply before tomorrow. If Incineration gets anything like we did, they’re in for a real treat. As seems to be the order of the day, Hypocrisy construct their set from the band’s extensive back-catalogue, visiting nine of their thirteen full-lengths along the way.
They Will Arrive and Fire in the Sky get things going and cement Hypocrisy’s ongoing fascination with aliens and science fiction. After Vomitory’s old school assault, Peter Tägtgren and company’s more melodic approach feels appropriate. Orange light washes the stage making it appear ablaze. “We’ve got some old shit and some new shit… and some shit in between” announces Peter before Inferior Devoties’ stomping groove; Chemical Whore has a doomy pacing and a Matrix-green lighting scheme, as Carved Up features former Sanctification six-stringer, Tomas Elfsson, wringing tortured screams from his instrument.
Worth the admission price alone is Worship’s Children of the Grey’s progressive strings and atmospheric arrangement, supplemented by screens showing grey aliens, it’s the kind of moment that reminds you of the transcendental effect of music. By contrast, Hypocrisy follow that up with End of Disclosure and Killing Art, both of which snap and snarl like angry beasts
Photo Credit: Rich Price PhotographyThere are times when I can’t help but think Hypocrisy and Kreator were separated at birth, and Eraser, with its pumping rhythms, is one of those times; Deathrow (No Regrets) has an undertone of a European art film from the Sixties, just a whisper, but the haunting refrain lends it a mournful countenance. The combination of Adjusting the Sun’s frenzied charge and Maiden-esque guitar passages, and Fractured Millenium’s choral, classical core show the band always have had the chops to fire off in whatever direction they saw fit. The evening draws to its close with the bolt-action Warpath and the anthemic Roswell 47, latter-era Hypocrisy’s signature tune.
The whole bill now moves down to that-there London and tonight will be repeated, but with Dragging Into Sunlight sitting between Vomitory and Hypocrisy. On a show that also includes Grave, Tomb Mold, Internal Bleeding, Plague Pit and Vacuous, not to mention the Bathory tribute show that is Blood Fire Death, I’m not at all jealous I’m here writing this rather than being down there.
No, not jealous at all.
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Live Gallery: Dragged Into Sunlight – Manchester
Live Gallery: Dragged Into Sunlight – Club Academy, Manchester
30th April 2025
Support: Vacuous, Plague Pit
Photos: Rich PriceWe look back at the epic Dragged Into Sunlight show through the eyes of our photographer Rich Price!
Dragged Into Sunlight
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Live Gallery: Hypocrisy – Manchester
Live Gallery: Hypocrisy – Academy 2, Manchester
1st May 2025
Support: Vreid, Vomitory
Photos: Rich PriceWe look back at the epic Hypocrisy show through the eyes of our photographer Rich Price!
Hypocrisy
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Photo Credit: Rich Price PhotographyVreid
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Live Review: Dragged Into Sunlight – Manchester
Live Review: Dragged Into Sunlight – Club Academy, Manchester
30th April 2026
Support: Vacuous, Plague PitWords: Dan Barnes
Photos: Rich PriceIt’s a lovely spring evening in Manchester tonight, the perfect end to a warm, sunny day. However, those heading into the bowels of the Academy complex are walking into a world of sonic misanthropy and musical chaos. Liverpool’s most nihilist sons, Dragged Into Sunlight, is beginning this short series of UK dates with a Thursday in town, before trekking of the Birmingham, London’s Incineration Festival and ending in Glasgow.
It’s a rare opportunity to see this homegrown band, and the first since their Damnation headlining slot in 2024 and, as with that performance, the anticipation is matched only by the length of the queue for DIS merchandise.
It’s up to west country pessimists, Plague Pit to open the show, with a sound that rattles the foundations of the venue; fat drums and tortured rasps fill the room with the kind of echo usually heard in ancient stone corridors. There’s no killing-with-speed from this Bristol collective, instead theirs is an oozing, morbid melancholy, sketched out against rumbling bass and filth chugs. Riffs hypnotise as much as they blister, with every note seemingly intended to shake the very ground upon which this building stands. There’s moment during Plague Pit’s set when the tempo rises and it offers something thrashy, merely a respite from the unflinching vision of the heart of human suffering. That said, I loved every minute of their set, it was the perfect way to get the ball rolling on such an evening.
Photo Credit: Rich Price PhotographyLondon’s Vacuous take a different approach to their set; the same nihilistic attitude is accompanied by an up tempo, deathier vibe, taking the uncompromising nature of the music and running it through with a dose of blackened grind. Ghostly vocals come and go, as do dissonant, punchy riffs and the occasional groove, but Vacuous seem to thrive in the delivery of angular lines, twisted out of shape and forced through distortion.
Both support bands fit the headliner’s aesthetic perfectly, and both play under blood red lights, burning constantly and unblinking, giving a hellish appearance and being a nightmare to photograph (apparently). Nor is there much audience interaction from any band on this bill, it would spoil the overall atmosphere of the show, leaving each person present to digest the music in whatever they chose.
Photo Credit: Rich Price PhotographyI’ve seen some big bands in this venue: Obituary, Suffocation, Enslaved – heck, I’ve even seen Gorjira in this room – admittedly that was back in 2006 – but I don’t think I’ve seen a queue for merchandise in this room even close to the line waiting to buy Dragged Into Sunlight goodies tonight. From the very beginning, before Plague Pit have taken the stage, there’s line at the merch stand, and it remains so for a couple of hours until DIS themselves take the stage.
Where the stage lighting had previously been a stable red wash, for the headliner it’s a series of retina-searing white lights, as harsh visually as the band’s music is sonically. More of ritual than a run-of-the-mill concert, a Dragged Into Sunlight show is to be experienced as much as anything. Existing in the similar area as Portal, Primitive Man, Anaal Nathrakh and Gnaw Their Tongues, where the human condition is to be sneered at, these scousers have their 2009 debut full-length, Hatred for Mankind, locked and loaded, just like the last time they played in town.
Photo Credit: Rich Price PhotographyWidely considered one of Damnation’s best ever sets, this is a chance for those absent to witness such a shocking live experience, or for those of us who were there that night, to confirm that we did actually see this happen.
Beginning with the kind of droning intro usually heard at a Sunn O))) show, the set opens with a series of foreboding frequencies, stirring the most primitive parts of the ancient brain with a sense of huge cosmic forces coming together.
Between harsh flashes of light, candles flicker, softening the image but not the sound as the opening bars of Boiled Angel / Buried with Leeches take flight. The soundbites of serial killers punctuate the performance, but you’re never really sure which is more unsettling: the words of some of history’s most infamous monsters, or the crazed creatives who conjured this hellish soundscape into existence. It’s a close call.
Photo Credit: Rich Price PhotographyEvery one of the musical aspects is pushed to the absolute limit on Hatred… and Dragged… seem to relish applying a little more pressure when playing the likes of Lashed to the Grinder and Stoned to Death and I, Aurora to a crowd, filling each with even more anguished hatred and undisguised loathing.
Evil guitar tones bleed dirty riffs into the PA, the blackest of doom loops through the speakers to cast its repugnance across the room. No respite is offered as the band ooze their way through Volcanic Birth and the brief To Hieron. There’s is the ruthless efficiency of Inquisitors, showing much the same disregard for human life. By the time Totem of Skulls draws to a close all present know that they have just witnesses something special.
By the time we exit the Academy building the warmth of the day has given way to a chill night, and the dark now seems a little more ominous than it might otherwise have done.
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