Setting The Tone

  New episode out now.   Setting The Tone is pleased to announce Octopus Montage and their brand new track Right here with me (out now)   About the band Octopus Montage are a 4 piece from Blackpool Dec Naylor - Vocals/Guitar Alex Jennings - Vocals/Guitar Davina Naylor - Bass Cain Dylan – Drums   following the storming success of their previous single ''Grow Up', The pop punk outfit OCTOPUS MONTAGE...

Single review for NOIR and their brand new track Placebo   Spotfiy https://open.spotify.com/show/6Jj9SsrXxve44839dptihN … Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/setting-the-tone/id1499390718 Google https://podcasts.google.com/?q=setting%20the%20tone podbean https://Settingthetone2.podbean.com

Brand new epsoide out now Dead By Wednesday New Single SOS out Now   DEAD BY WEDNESDAY is: Steve Alvarez - Vocals Opus - Drums Mike Modeste - Bass Dave Sharpe - Guitar       Connecticut-based metal band DEAD BY WEDNESDAY has revealed a video for the crushing new track “S.O.S.,” the first single to feature new vocalist Steve Alvarez.   The video, directed by Alex Vazquez/AVArtdigital, is available...

Brand New Episode out now  TETRARCH’s I’m Not Right         Modern metal phenom TETRARCH’s new single, “I’m Not Right,” from their forthcoming Unstable album, debuted at 39* on the Billboard Rock Charts and Active Rock Mediabase, further solidifying the potency of the fast-rising frontrunners.   “We are honored to crack the top 40 of the ‘Billboard’ mainstream rock chart,” guitarist Diamond Rowe s...

Brand new Episode from setting the tone out now BLACK TREE VULTURES THE UNFORESEEN out 25 September     Formed in early 2017 by Jonno Smyth (Drums) and Aaron ‘Ham’ Hammersley (Guitar), Black Tree Vultures set out to combine their classic metal influences with a modern edge, to play to an audience ranging from seasoned metal veterans to new rock lovers. After recruiting Celyn Beynon (Vocals) to fro...

Brand new episode out now The Hot One Two drop brand new single ROLLING STONE out September 4th 2020 Rolling stone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ppa9wdYIYc Brit rockers The Hot One Two Aka T.H.O.T are back with their new single Rolling Stone delivering a riffy, hook heavy slab of rock n roll to the listener. T.H.O.T are reminiscent of that classical sound many of us fell in love with, infused w...

Brand new episode out now   A catch up to what has been happening in the music industry the past couple of weeks.   We have had British rock success with Florence Black scoring a number for their single Bird on a chain And the mighty Biffy Clyro scoring a number 1 for their new album a celebration of endings-who will be playing the next year Download Festival main stage   As well the positives I t...

Brand New Episode lout now   On Friday 21st August I sat down with Conor from Anchor Lane, to discuss their journey so far with their current releases and how they approached both recordings, both myself and Conor stated that the one bit of advice we could offer for any aspiring artist or band is to ensure what you are doing is put together as best as it can be as you never know what eyes are on y...

  Setting The Tone is extremely pleased to bring to you our interview with James and Gerald from Temples On Mars, we sat down together to discuss their current EP Parallels vol1 and how it came together. The bands   Download Festival . Attendance for 2021 as well who both James and Gerald would share a cold one with backstage. A big thank you to the guys for their time.   About the band are a Lond...

Brand new episode ROYALTY KULT single review for Oracle out now from their up coming album Enjoying the End is scheduled for release on December 6. Pre-orders will be available on November 6.   Hard-Alt Rockers ROYALTY KULT Give Nod to Skate Influences in New Video for “Oracle”   Watch “Oracle” Now via  Metal Insider The California based duo of Joshua Michael and David Fulford-Brown began their mu...

8 august 09:00 A Download Festival announcement happened some amazing bands are on next year line up, and some amazing bands emerging on the Dog Tooth stage. I honestly cannot wait for next year’s festival, after the sad news that all events this year would be off due to the pandemic, we have all had something taken from us this year and I really hope next year we are back to doing what we love, A...

Bran new episode out now   This episode is all about the state of play with digital platforms after Sporfiy Daniel Ek disgusting remarks on artist.   Please see the article below from stereo gum which came out last night   https://www.stereogum.com/2093393/spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-streaming-income/news/?fbclid=IwAR2LEVQR2GdK1ell1-OCced0TpFwJE4vCSpBwERE45Yru_QtxG7fyb4inPU     Is it time to go back a l...

New episode out now.   Pleased to announce Wolf Jaw 'Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda'   About the band Wolf Jaw are from Cannock Tom Leighton - Guitar/Vocals Dale Tonks - Bass/Vocals Karl Selickis - Drums    UK based hard rock trio WOLF JAW drop brand new lyric video 'Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda' to mark the one year anniversary that saw their van and equipment stolen which prevented them from finishing their...

On this Episode I discuss the cancelled utillta drive in shows and supporting local venues.   I feel that to help try and allow us to all get back to normality and attending shows, we all need to ensure we are doing our bit with covid weather that be personal hygiene or wearing a mask, enough is enough its time too many people are still suffering. We all want live music back ASAP.

New episode out now.   This is my rally cry to everyone; the music industry needs help to survive.   Enough is enough.   Today we come together with the rest of the UK music industry to show our support for  #letthemusicplay  a campaign highlighting the crisis faced by the live music sector. We need the UK government to listen and act now to help protect venues that could be forced to close for go...

Really Happy to announce, a new episode where I got to sit down and talk to a local business owner with a unique approach to teaching guitar on 26th June, I sat down with Rory Price AKA the guitar ninja Where we able to talk about his unique approach to teaching students on guitar theory and guitar practical.   We discussed his love for mixed martial arts and how he took the grading system of from...

  On the 28th June 2020, I sat down with Mace Beyers from @Grey Daze, (Chester Bennington first band to discuss their brand new release Amends, which was released on the 26th June 2020.   We talked about the earlier shows with Chester, The recording process and their mindset during the recording of the album special guests. And what’s next for them.   For me personally I grew up loving Linkin park...

Dohny Jep album review for L.U.S.T the album comes out 10/7/2020              

In a time where all events have been affected and only music releases to look forwarded to, things within the industry have really stepped up.   Live nation announced today Gigs are back well in the form of a drive in event, Across 12 venues utilita live from the Drive-In, the idea seems cool but im on the fence in terms of how this will work, but the main thing I have taken away from this is live...

An album review for Katie Malco album review Failures  

A single review for the band The five hundred Black dogs single review 

  Skag Bunny and their brand new single Buggada Tum Ti Tum Tum review 

a review of Undamaged Destiny and the brand new music  

An EP review for the American rock band Citizen Kane

A single review for Yard Arms These four walls