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LIVE REVIEW: SSS, Constant State of Terror and Crypsis 18th June 2013 Prince Albert Brighton

SSS Brighton

As I walked around the corner to the venue, the litter strewn across Brighton’s streets making it look quite post apocolyptic, courtesy of the local binman strike. Inside I was greeted by a mixture of faces, young and old, both looking forward to a night of good old fashioned Thrash Metal.

I made my way upstairs and entered the venue's function room where maybe 30 bodies were already chatting and drinking. The fans mounted on the wall were doing little to reduce rising heat in the room on the hottest day of the year so far.

Crypsis casually took to the stage and...

By |2013-06-20T00:00:00+00:00June 20th, 2013|Gig Reviews|0 Comments

Amon Amarth 2013 UK tour with Carcass and Bleed from Within

Carcass Camden Underworld

If you haven't already spotted it all over the metal forums the Metal Hammer "Defenders of the Faith" tour has been announced today.  Hot off their Download Festival appearance Amon Amarth will be playing 5 dates across the UK. Super happy that Carcass have been announced for support, as if 3 days in a row at the Underworld and a headline slot coming up at this year's Damnation Festival wasn't enough (you can never have too much Carcass)! Also supporting will be Glasgow based deathcore outfit Bleed From Within.  The new Amon Amarth album Deceiver Of The Gods is due out on June 25th and can be pre-ordered from Metal Blade hereThe tour has the following dates with tickets on sale soon...

By |2013-06-20T00:00:00+00:00June 20th, 2013|Gig News|0 Comments

Conan 2013 UK tour announced

Conan Jon Davis Underworld Camden Desertfest

Merseyside based Caveman Battle Doom band Conan have announced a string of UK dates for October this year, singer Jon Davis (no not that one, this is not numetalgigs) had this to say "This tour will be our last until the new album is out, and we'll be using it to try out a couple of tracks from the new album. Looking forward to hitting the road again".  We're certainly happy about this news, Conan live outings are IMMENSE and following on from slaying at festivals such as Roadburn and Desertfest they were recently signed to Napalm Records.  We're sure the new material will be crushing, just check out the link below to their recent split with Bongripper.

Conan play the following dates...

By |2013-06-19T00:00:00+00:00June 19th, 2013|Gig News|0 Comments

Brutal Truth announced to headline Hammer Smashed Fest

Hammer Smashed Fest 2013 Electrowerkz London

Check this line up out! Along with Terrorizer we're proud to be one of the sponsors for Hammer Smashed Fest!! This September 22nd 2013 the Electrowerkz in London plays host to Hammer Smashed Fest, a grind/death metal alldayer headlined by an exclusive UK show from Brutal Truth.   The line up so far is Extreme Noise Terror, Psycroptic, Hour of Penance, Dyscarnate, Exhumer, Corrupt Moral Altar, The Atrocity Exhibit, Unfathomable Ruination, Acrania and Anoxide with more bands yet to be confirmed.

Early Bird tickets are...

By |2013-06-18T00:00:00+00:00June 18th, 2013|Gig News|0 Comments

Iron Maiden to finish European tour with London show

Iron Maiden England 88

We came, we saw, we banged our heads.  From an initial rain soaked arrival at Donington Park the weekend ended up a fairly sunny and fun 3 days of beer and music, but more importantly an AMAZING set from Iron Maiden. From the initial Spitfire flyover and Moonchild to an encore of Aces High, The Evil That Men Do, and Running Free it was an amazing 2 hours of music showing they STILL have it in spades, Phantom of the Opera was phenomenal.

A surprise announcement was made during their set that they would be returning to England at the end of their current Maiden '88 European tour to play the O2 Arena on Saturday 3rd August 2013.  Better still is they are insuring the REAL fans will be able to get tickets...

By |2013-06-18T00:00:00+00:00June 18th, 2013|Gig News|0 Comments

Vomitor July 2013 UK tour

Vomitor European Tour 2013

Australian's Thrash Death band Vomitor have announced the "Satan's Escalation" European tour, and are set to return to our shores this July.  The band's latest album "The Escalation" was released last November and you can order it hereon LP from the tour promoters Invictus Productions, and check it out below on bandcamp.

Vomitor play the following July 2013 UK (and Ireland) tour dates:

5th July - Dolans, Limerick - with Slaughter Messiah (Belgium) & TBC

6th July...

By |2013-06-12T00:00:00+00:00June 12th, 2013|Gig News|0 Comments

Feastem and Oblivionized 2013 UK tour starts tomorrow

Feastem Oblivionized uk tour 2013

Finland grind act Feastem kickstart their 5 date UK tour tomorrow at The Red Lion in Bristol on 12th June 2013.  The tour with London based grind act Oblivionized is to promote the new Feastem album "Avaritia Humanae" which was released last week on Obscene Productions.

Dates are as follows:

JUNE 2013 

ALL DATES - Feastem and Oblivionized + local support

12th - Bristol...

By |2013-06-11T00:00:00+00:00June 11th, 2013|Featured Gigs|0 Comments

UK Tech fest just over a month away

Tech Fest 2013 Peterborough

The second coming of UK Tech Fest is now just over a month away.  After a succesful and sold out first year the festival returns and this year sees Scar Symmetry, Veil of Maya and Tesseract headlining.  The festival will also see UK exclusive shows from Skyharbor and Uneven Structure.  For those of you with a liking of all things tech, djent and progressive this is an absolute bargain with weekend tickets priced at just £60.00 for the whole weekend, and for an extra...

By |2013-06-10T00:00:00+00:00June 10th, 2013|Featured Gigs|0 Comments

The Lumberjack Feedback UK tour and album release

The Lumberjack Feedback

French quintet The Lumberjack Feedback who feature 2 drummers will be heading over from Lille for a few dates in South England in July.  The UK dates are part of a European tour promoting their new album "Hand of Glory" which is due for release on Kaotoxin Records on July 2nd 2013.  Various preorder packages are available from the Kaotoxin bandcamp page here. The Lumberjack Feedback play the following UK dates...

By |2013-06-08T00:00:00+00:00June 8th, 2013|Gig News|0 Comments