11 dates and boasting some of the best unsigned bands on the underground touring circuit: the dream of a charity tour to raise awareness is a dream come true for its organizer, Andy Pilkington. The second date was at a small venue in Bristol called The Exchange, and after eventually finding it the venue became a place that sweated anticipation (or maybe it was because of the heat) for this particular date of the tour.
 Welcome Back Delta is a band who you could buy an album off of – although it’s currently an EP that was free and absolutely fantastic – and blast it out loud at a barbeque with a cold beer. Armed with soaring punk rock riffs that had a bluesy rock element put into them, quirky stage banter, they livened up the room to warm everyone up for the next band.
 Next on the all dayer list were the London stoner rockers One For Sorrow. I have to admit, there wasn’t that much stoner influence in their set, but Joe Thompson made up for it being a phenomenal vocalist, and as a relatively new band these guys sounded like they knew what they were doing, and the overall presence of the band were outstanding. They will also be gracing the New Blood Stage at this year’s Bloodstock Festival in the UK, so best of luck to them.
 Personally, I’m not a fan of extreme metal of sorts, but personal opinion shouldn’t be directed into a review on your preferred genre as you could end up slating a band that are really good. I’m thankful I keep to that rule, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing about how damn amazing Parasitized were. It was about halfway through the set when realization kicked in that they weren’t playing with a bassist, but the technical ability of the guitarists was jaw-droppingly incredible. When playing in the heat that pounded upon everyone, I’m not surprised if anyone didn’t mess up. No one did though and Parasitized were a band that kept everything fine right down to the very detail.
 With their debut ‘The Battle Begins’ out now, three piece Tempestora have high hopes. Not only is it an incredible album but they didn’t mess around. Being a three piece thrash band may sound like a bit of a joke, but Tempestora weren’t there to mess around, they were there to wow an audience, and that’s exactly what they did.
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 I’ve have never seen a band play as tight as Fires of Tartarus (ok, Reign of Fury are there as well. But we’ll get to that later). With gruelling breakdowns and Scott demanding everyone move closer to the stage, and everyone did, no questions asked. Scott (vocalist) is one member of the bands on tour who’ve been through testicular cancer and survived it and having that story to tell everyone and RockRevolt in our last issue, the performance felt more unique.
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 I’m absolutely gutted to say I missed Primatari, as I’ve heard so much about them, so I’ll have to catch them the next time they come down. But I was there for Reign of Fury, the tour that was in support of Bison who is now officially clear of testicular cancer. Their performance can only be described as an iron maiden influenced thrash sound with so much power that your brain would have melted by the first song. The musicianship was incredible, and Bison’s vocals were absolutely stunning. It was a real pleasure to finally see this band play and the whole room was blown away, not just because of Bison’s story but because of how mind blowing-ly good they were.
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 Last up for the night was Seprevation, who challenged the building to move. After Reign of Fury’s miniature mosh pit, Seprevation expanded it a bit more for a crowd who wanted to move and have a good time, with a groove/thrash influence that commanded everyone to move, ending the spectacular night on a high note.
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 So far in the whole tour to date there have been two cancer survivors, stripped of immune systems by chemo and playing long sets in a temperature of 40 degrees more and nailing it. They’ve had a band member who’s been told by Doctors he might die if he headbangs too hard and a band member whose son was effected by a brain tumor. But people still came out in their numbers and supported the cause. RockRevolt Magazine have showed their balls to the cause, have you?
Come see the Headbanger’s Balls article in the latest issue of RockRevolt Magazine
