Canadian rock heavyweights Three Days Grace returned to the O2 Academy Birmingham with a set that felt both nostalgic and fiercely alive.

With a sold-out crowd and a line-up that perfectly captured the modern alt-rock landscape, RØRY’s first ever show in the city proved to be one for the books.

Wolverhampton’s KK’s Steel Mill was packed to warehouse beams this Halloween, a sea of costumes (including one giant inflatable male member) and beer cups primed for the chaos ahead. And chaos is exactly what they got, courtesy of Newport’s finest, Skindred,  a band who have turned genre-bending, crowd-moving mayhem into an art form.

It was an eerily quiet night in Wolverhampton, though it being the night before Halloween may have something to do with that and with the early door time of 5pm, I assumed others were still to come after work. Arch Enemy would be kicking off the UK leg of their Blood Dynasty tour, but more on the attendance later.

Last night, KK’s Steel Mill was shaken to its foundations as ASOMVEL rolled into Wolverhampton with DeVere in support. What followed was a night of unrelenting, old-school heavy metal, delivered with grit, attitude, and a volume level that lived up to their own motto: “If It’s Too Loud, You’re Too Old.”