Ozzfest Is Back!!
Super exciting news!! But Ozzfest returning isn’t just a nostalgia headline. It’s also a food for thought on how infrastructure shapes music scenes. And more positively, how legacy can function as continuation rather than closure.
Jorvik Viking Festival: Nordicness, Metal and Politics of the Past
I finally made it to the Jorvik Viking march this year…
Fringe Fest 2025
Some photos from Fringe Fest 2025…
“Antichrist Superstar”: Marilyn Manson as a Marketing Blueprint for the Extreme
Capstone Project Module | MA Music, Management and Marketing | University of York
Sabaton
Co-Op Live, Manchester, 5/12/2025 I’d been wanting to see Sabaton for quite some time, over the last couple of years they’ve slowly crept their way into becoming one of my most listened to artists (adds up for someone who works in the history/tourism sector…) so the opportunity to make a day of their tour […]
Download X Lush: The Almost Perfect Brand Partnership
What had begun as a model of ethical and aesthetic synergy rapidly became a cautionary example of how brand collaborations can unravel when moral values diverge.
Moral Panics, Metal and Mud: Festival Season 2025
Satan Sells has been uncharacteristically quiet lately…
Bloodstock 2025
Catton Park, Derby, 7th-10th August 2025 Second only to Back To The Beginning, it’s probably fair to say that Bloodstock 2025 was my most anticipated event of the year. Subject to much ongoing praise from university friends, it’s the one festival each year that for whatever reason I could never make. Thankfully, the stars […]
Offal Fest 2025
Rebellion, Manchester, 26/7/2025 Offal Fest 2025 ended up being a very solid reminder of why smaller, scene-driven festivals still really matter. My trip back home to Manchester was honestly based on the fact that I wanted to see Skinless (a big bucket list band for me); but I ended up coming away most excited […]
“On This Battlefield, No One Wins”: Iron Maiden’s Construction of War, Morality, and the Sound of Evil in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
How Iron Maiden sonically constructs war as a form of evil and how that construction, both musical and thematic, contributed to the NWOBHM’s aesthetic legacy and the globalisation of heavy metal.