In the borough of Bury, between the counties of Greater Manchester and Lancashire, in a little village called Tottington, you will find the pub/venue The Towler; notorious for its live music and reputation of being possibly the best rock pub for live music in the whole of north Manchester. With a cheap selection of drinks, quality bands and friendly bar staff, you will definitely feel at home.
Wednesday 14th March: The Metal Assault Special took place. Carefully selected bands: Bloodwrath, The Threat, Opinicus and Deathtrip were ready to assault the stage that night and in my opinion were some of the best quality northern metal bands that Manchester has seen yet.
Deathtrip kicked the night off to a good start when the locally based band produced some skull crushing vocals, grinding guitar riffs, head smashing drum beats and offensive base lines. The bands are also due to release an E.P sometime soon, so watch their space.
Opinicus rose from the ashes of Sheffield that night to join the metal assault, playing their mix of Death Metal with Classic Rock undertones. The band threw everyone away with their harmonic technical guitar solos, both growling and melodic vocals, thick heavy base lines and brilliant drumming.
Next to face judgement were the Manchester based, young lads from The Threat. One thing for sure is that you can’t judge a book by its cover and when these young lads took to the stage that saying definitely came into place. Those electrifying guitar solos, and ravage drum beats, all in all, one great band.
Last but not least to tear up the stage were the head lining band of the evening: Bloodwrath.
The Newcastle based band travelled down that evening especially to play that night.
Head ripping vocals, tremendously fast drumming, stomach punching bass, and bone chilling, spine tingling guitar riffs, this band definitely wrapped up the night on a bloody excellent note.
Like The cherry on top of a cake as they may say, except one that has been half eaten, maggot infested, mould grown and regurgitated twice.
Like The cherry on top of a cake as they may say, except one that has been half eaten, maggot infested, mould grown and regurgitated twice.
By Aine Brewer
