Blackstorm are an amazing band primarily based in Brighton. The line up reads like a dirty supergroup, which explains why their groove laden metal is so god damn perfect. Vocalist Karl Middleton fronts up the outfit (Earthone9, The Blueprint, Twin Zero, This Is Menace), bassist Gez Walton (The  Ghost Of A Thousand), guitarist Neil Kingbury Fall Of Efrafa) and drummer Jon Perry have been joined by Tom Bates as 2nd guitarist making Blackstorm one loud(er) mother fucker.

The introduction of Tom was announced late last year and we had been working on getting everyone together for a while before this finally happened, blighted by averse weather, the holiday season, geotargetting errors and I had a drippy nose for a while too.

A cold morning at the end of January greeting the guys, myself and good friend Kevin Mason managed to drag Gez out of bed for a brief session before one of their intense all day writing sessions. The images are now in circulation around the press in warm up to the release of Rise Rebel Seers on March 9th via iTunes or Distort Digital.

A physical release may be made available from their official store in the near future.

Kids fight their way through the slam pit. Surfaces - Engine Room, Brighton

Went out to the first gig of the year on Sunday to watch the unstoppable Deathcore Surfaces with support from London Tech metal band The Safety Fire, post-hardcore The Roskov Landing and metalcore Among The Wolves at Engine Room in Brighton.

Full review is now online at Thrash hits

Some more images from the show will be released over the next few weeks.

With a bit of luck I will have something posted by the end of this week.

Sink porn, is a term I had not heard until just before Christmas when I was invited to join a Flickr group who took photographs of sinks in various states. Curiously, I myself have been documenting my shaving habits over the last few years regularly snapping various sinks where I have departed with facial hair into their ceramic bowels.

I wanted to try something completely different with this incantation, as the last was quite hard to manage with a timer and wireless remote. This time I let the camera do the work, setting up a fixed focal point using a Nikkor F1.8 50mm prime lens on my Nikon D300s and then attaching it to a laptop to do a time lapse.

Because it provided quite a lot of images, I didn’t want to post all of them into Flickr because there are too many things that go wrong when you do that with Flickr (like the fact it doesn’t stick to the the sequence based on the meta or file name), so I have converted it using the Lightroom 3 Beta into a MP4 video file.