Despite the combative weather, Bristol’s O2 Academy heaved with face-painted, leather clad attendees preparing themselves for the tenured melodic death of AVATAR . Supported by much lorded black metal upstart WITCH CLUB SATAN on their second set of UK dates, following a blinding appearance at Birmingham’s Supersonic festival. Following them came New Zealand’s premier groove metal outfit in ALIEN WEAPONRY . Whilst hampered towards the start by weak guitar mixes, WITCH CLUB SAT

Alien Weaponry have woven nuanced social commentary and their M ā ori history into a full-throttle third offering. They interchange Te...