On a very pleasant Friday night in the middle of July, at the invitation of Mike Exley of MEPR, who look after Onslaught in the UK, I trekked down the M1 to the O2 Academy 2 in Sheffield to see a band I've somehow managed to miss at everyOn a very pleasant Friday night in the middle of July, at the invitation of Mike Exley of MEPR, who look after Onslaught in the UK, I trekked down the M1 to the O2 Academy 2 in Sheffield to see a band I've somehow managed to miss at every single opportunity: the mighty Onslaught! The Academy2 is nice, intimate club-sized venue, so is something of a sweatbox, especially on the kind of day we'd just had. Unfortunately, I missed seeing last minute substitution opening act, Demonic Resurrection since I was sat outside in the evening sun having a chat with Sy Keeler. From what I overheard when a portion of the audience came outside, the reaction to the quintet from Mumbai was very favourable. Having spoken to one of the band members, we'll see if we can sort out a Skype interview over the coming weeks. Next up were one of the very first exponents of European Thrash: Denmark's very own Artillery, on their first ever tour of the UK. This was a band that Sy was excited about bringing over, and it was fairly easy to see why. The Danes are exponents of Proper Heavy Metal – fast riffs and solos [...]
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