Disarm Goliath are the first up of 4 bands tonight,
they are a classic rock band from Walsall, so
there only down the road, the first song reminds
me a bit of avenged sevenfold, they had a familiar
guitar sound to AX7, next up was we rule the night
I think it's called, more of a classic British
rock song, then again all their songs have a smattering
of NWOBHM to them, the vocals are very Bruce Dickinson-esq,
not as powerful as Bruce but good enough for the
sound they are going for, they have a few fans
out tonight too on this rather soggy evening.
Overall for this bands there a pretty decent,
there sound can be a little all over the place
in style, but there heading in the right direction.
 Next
up are butcher babies, are a 5 piece duel female
fronted rock band, vulgar or Attention Whore are
some words to describe them two, I'm no prude,
but it seems to set back women in rock/metal somewhat
and why some aren't taken as seriously as others,
due to their attempts at being edgy, using a microphone
as a penis, how.......original....-_-. There vocals
while screaming don't seem to have any power them
sort of a weak attempt at Angela gossow style
vocals. It woefully lacking any va va voom in
them. The rest of the band ain't too bad though,
some decent guitar riffs some actually decent
and memorable ones at that, the drumming isn’t
too bad either. Overall not a fan of the vocalist
but a fan of the music.
 Fozzy
are a band I've never listened too but know a
bit about them, fronted by Chris Jericho, a wrestler
from my youth, still going so I hear. There a
really a decent hard rock band, all the songs
are heavy and catchy some really great guitar
riffs, with some decent drumming backing up the
catchiness, They opened the set with Pray a strong
opener but second song sandpaper is probably my
favourite song of the set, they blast on with
the likes of Eat the rich, God pounds his nails
and superb set closer Enemy, Overall they surprised
me somewhat by being really good, will have to
give there albums a listen.
Wolverhampton the home of touching ass according
to Ryan the former and now current again vocalist,
old soil songs just sound right with him behind
the microphone, not that there was anything wrong
with AJ singing them, but they sound proper again.
Soil are playing all old Ryan era songs tonight
while they are currently working on new material.
They open with breaking this is followed by need
to feel, which is sung by the guitarist Adam,
after a comedic exchange between him and Ryan,
they share the vocals. Things just sound  right,
this is classic soil sound, dirty but it sounds
a bit dated too as they are fairly old songs but
it doesn't matter. It feels like the band are
starting again playing small venues working their
way up. They continue with the likes of redefine,
cross my heart, inside, wide open, there set us
really flying by at this point and then there's
only a few songs left. Black 7, which was followed
by a badly sung cover by a crowd member, you've
lost that loving feeling, massive approval from
the band and crowd, Unreal follows this, then
that classic, the one that most metal fans of
a certain era love, Halo, sounds as catchy and
heavy as hell with the crowd singing along. Overall
a great show from a rather humble and funny Ryan,
highly recommended you catch a show. 5/5
Disarm Goliath 3/5
Butcher Babies 2/5
Fozzy 4/5
Soil 5/5
Review By Robert Lawrence
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