Monthly Archives: July 2012

The dates have been up for a while but support has now been confirmed for former The Gathering vocalist Anneke Van Giersbergen's UK Tour as Mojo Fury and Death Letters.

Anneke van Giersbergen has announced full details of her autumn tour in support of long-awaited album “Everything is Changing” which was released through PIAS earlier this year.

Anneke van Giersbergen started her solo career back in 2007, she had already been the frontwoman of Dutch metal pioneers The Gathering for 13 years. Together with her band Agua de Annique she released several outstanding albums to both critical and popular acclaim in a short period of time which immediately put her in the picture as a solo artist. 

Her new album, “Everything Is Changing”, not only

Earache Record's Savage Messiah have announced a pre-Bloodstock warm up show in guitarist Joff Bailey's home town of Hastings on Saturday 4th August.  The seaside town is home to the infamous biker pub The Carlisle, and it's upstairs at said venue that the show will take place.  Tickets are priced at £5.00 and support comes from local female fronted rock/metal act Blackdown and thrashers Vulgate.

Following a hugely succesful tour with Evile earlier in the year and

Doom Over London, Relentless Garage, Highbury, London Saturday 17th November 2012

Tickets for Doom Over London III have now gone on sale.

To say we are excited about this is an understatement.  Ahab have confirmed they will be headlining and playing their first ever UK show.  Following hearing their 2005 Oath demo and then their monstrous debut "The Call Of The Wretched Sea" in 2006 it's been an aching wait for them to finally make it to our shores.  With 2009's "The Divinity of Oceans" showing the debut was no fluke, this could well give the Skepticism gig a run for it's money for Doom event of the year in the UK.

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Talanas have just been announced as support for the upcoming My Dying Bride gig in London.  My Dying Bride who have also recently been announced as one of the bands to play at this year's Damnation Festival will be making a rare apperance at London's O2 Academ Islington on Friday 7th December 2012. Tickets are on sale at £16.50 and can be purchased here.

Talanas seriously impressed us at last year's

Everything Went Heavier, Nottingham's legendary all day event is returning for one day only at its spiritual home, The Old Angel on October 6th 2012. The event will bring together ten of the UK's finest underground stoner, sludge, doom, punk and hardcore bands, all in the name of the DIY spirit.

Topping the bill are HANG THE BASTARD, who are just going from strength to strength. Releasing records through labels like Purgatory, Holy Roar and now on Thirty Days Of Night, these guys deal out riffs and attitude by the fistful. Sounding like the bastard offspring of Integrity, Eyehategod and Electric Wizard, it's no surprise that they can play to both hardcore and heavy crowds without compromise.

The big surprise is that fans of The Wicker Man, HELVIS are reforming for this special event. Bloody Kev and his merry band of scumbags, who all did time in a plethora of late 90s hardcore bands, will be wheeling their pagan thrash metal out of the retirement home and threatening anyone within a 12ft radius of the stage. Hold onto your hats and your drinks, as we reverence the sacrifice once more.