Yesterday, my hometown of Paris has been attacked by terrorists in several different locations. Those locations were the Stade de France, where the French football team was playing against Germany, a couple of restaurants, and the Bataclan, a concert venue where Eagles Of Death Metal were playing to over a thousand people. If I'm not mistaken, around a hundred and thirty people are reported dead and so many others are still missing, or are in hospitals, recovering from their wounds or fighting to survive.
What about me?
I'm in Brighton, England. I'm six hundred miles away from home, heartbroken and wishing I could give a hug to every single person I love.
I had heard about the Never Say Die tour, created by merchandise website and staple brand Impericon, for years, but had never found a line up that catered to my interests at the moment it was around - until the 2015 edition, that is. It is headlined by Australian metalcore outfit The Amity Affliction and also features an excellent collection of hardcore bands - Defeater, Being As An Ocean, Cruel Hand, Fit For A King and Burning Down Alaska.
There is one topic on which the entire alternative scene agrees, and that topic is Beartooth. The metalcore outfit, from Colombus, Ohio, has taken the heavy music world by storm when they released their excellent debut album, Disgusting, and since then, I can truthfully tell you that I have never seen one person say they didn't like them. At the end of 2014, pretty much everyone that mattered in music journalism has put the record in their favourites of the year, and I have to say I fully agree.
