Monthly Archives: May 2013

Just in case you missed it last week Paradise Lost announced they will tour the UK later this year to celebrate their 25th anniversary.  Support for the tour comes from Italian's Lacune Coil.

Nick had this to say about the forthcoming anniversary shows:

"25 years IS a long time, on the surface we may look ramshackled, but playing music for so many years has kept us young in our hearts and I truly believe that a youthful spirit is one of the greatest things you can’t buy in a pub.
We have written many...

The line up and stage times are now confirmed for the When Planets Collide Summer Sizzler taking place at the Windmill in Brixton on 29th June. This year's edition will be headlined by Oxford's masters of sloth like riffs Undersmile.

Tickets are priced at just £6 (£8 on the door) and include BBQ food, so at my calculations that's 42 pence a band including food!  If you haven't yet been to one of these events then you need to make sure you get along this year.  

Sun (hopefully), awesome bands, great food, cheap...

Ireland's Mourning Beloveth have announced a show at The Pint in Dublin on 30th November 2013.  After wowing the crowd at this year's Roadburn Festival this will be their first gig in Dublin since the release of their latest album "Formless" which you can purchase directly from the band here.  Support comes from Dread Sovereign the new three piece featuring Neamthanga and Dubh (Primordial) and Bones (Zom), who also played at this year's Roadburn Festival making their live debut and going down a storm.

Mourning Beloveth play upstairs at the Garage in Highbury, London this Saturday, 1st June.  Support comes from...

 The hardcore/grind/d-beat/death whatever you want to call them (bloody good) band Nails have just announced 4 dates in the UK for November 2013.  Support on the tour comes from the Belgium/Netherlands based Holy Terror Records band Blind To Faith.  The tour is in support of the recently released second album "Abandon All Life" on Southern Lord which was recorded at Godcity with Kurt Ballou (Converge) and mastered by Brad Boatright (From Ashes Rise) described by Kerrang as "one of the most savage and head spinning albums of the year so far".

Dates are as follows...

It's inevitable it was going to happen sometime soon, but the annual Motorhead November tour has been announced. This time it's been made that little bit more special as support has been announced as the mighty Saxon.  Motorhead have released 20 studio albums over 38 (!) years, very few bands have worked so hard, for so many years. Dates are as follows...

The 2013 edition of Damnation festival has just had Sweden's Cult of Luna, Liverpool based thrash crossover act SSS and London based Black Metal act Voices added to the line up.  They join the already confirmed Carcass, Crippled Black Phoenix, Vallenfyre, Negura Bunget, and Moss. Cult of Luna had this to say:

"The band will fly in for a standlone performance as they continure promoting the Fritz Lang 'Metropolis' inspired 'Vertikal', their...

Earache Records Savage Messiah hot after their headline appearance at the Metal Gods Festival in Mansfield have just announced a mini tour of the UK consisting of 4 dates for later in the year.  The band have been touring in support of their album "Plague of Conscience" which was released as a free download last year.  The band seem to have been on full throttle the last 12 months headlining Metal Gods, supporting Evile, and playing at Bloodstock Festival so they should be more than warmed up for this upcoming tour.  You can still download the album for free from Earache here along with albums from Wormrot and Gama Bomb.

Savage Messiah play the following dates...

I'm sure that most of you heard about the horrific bus crash that happened on the last Baroness UK tour, well it seems that they are getting back on the horse so to speak as they have just announced a return to Europe with 4 dates confirmed for the UK.  The band have also announced the release of a 4 track BBC Maida Vale session recording to be release on 22nd July in the UK. The release was recorded...

Germany's Defeated Sanity will headline the Grindethic Records 10 year anniversary gig on 31st August 2013 at the Garage in Highbury London.  Their latest album released on Willowtip records "Passages Into Deformity" has received an average 94% on metal archives.  Has it really been 10 years since Grindethic started? Anyone who's been to any of their gigs over the years be it the anti-christmas bashes or the likes of Wormed, Cerebral Bore, Prophecy, Ingested...

Australia's self proclaimed ‘most rock n roll, rock n roll band in the History of History’, Mammoth Mammoth have announced a European Tour for November 2013 which includes 3 UK dates.  The band who recently signed to Napalm Records and released "Volume III - Hell's Likely" will certainly appeal to fans of fuzzed out bands like Fu Manchu and Truckfighters with a mix of AC/DC and Motorhead.  It’s a sound MAMMOTH MAMMOTH call ‘Heavy-murder-fuzz.’ And its effect as ‘...the type of rock that some times kills unicorns’. Support on the tour comes from Sweden's The Quill.

Dates are as follows...