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Yes we've been a bit slack with news recently but CHECK THIS - The first ever Temples Festival being organised by the awesome tour promoter Francis C Mace has been announced as.....NEUROSIS!!!!!!!  HELL YEAH!!!!! So this is the first edition of this festival but anyone that knows of Francis and his promotions company knows he puts on a lot of killer bands in Bristol and around the country.  Here's all the official stuff:

"NEUROSIS will headline Saturday May 3rd (2014), marking their long-awaited debut Bristol appearance within the...

I have no idea what they have been putting in the Merseyside water recently but whatever it is can they please share it around?  Many years ago Liverpool spawned Carcass, one of my all time favourite bands, so any decent band to come from the area already had fine company.  In the last few years we've had Dragged Into Sunlight and Conan come along and redefine heavy whilst destroying ear canals in very different ways. Last year saw Black Magician...

Terrorizer magazine have announced "Bloodletting the UK tour" featuring Copenhagen's Iniquity, Moscow's Katalepsy and our very own Unfathomable Ruination. Christ this has to be the most brutal tour of 2013!! Iniquity put out their debut, the death metal classic "Serenadium" in 1996 to amazing feedback from the underground press.  They then managed to follow up with an EP and 2 more full lengths of almost equal quality to their landmark debut (seriously what was in the water that 90's death metal bands drank to make them so consistent?).  2013 marks the 15th anniversary of the 1998 The Hidden Lore EP and so the line up from that recording have reformed for a few very special tour dates.  This is in Iniquity's woads a one off:

"There are NO plans of recording any new or old material and there won't be another reunion later on - at least not with this line-up. This is meant as a one time thing in hon

I'm not too sure what to add to this news post other than aaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!  Ufomammut have just announced the Magickal Mastery European tour and it contains 3 dates in England at the beginning of October.  If you haven't seen this band live yet you HAVE to go and see them.  I know everyone says ooh this band is great on every press release about every band but seriously Ufomammut are the real deal live.  I'm sure regular visitors to the site know how many gigs i go to and this is serious advice GET A TICKET.  Much like Yob they...

Well it seems like most of the country's metal community is heading up/down/across to London this weekend for the Iron Maiden shows happening at the O2 Arena on Saturday 3rd August and Sunday 4th August (Tickets are still available for the 4th here).  

As well as the Maiden shows those...

OK enough already Damnation!! As if the line up wasn't already pretty darn tasty the fesitval have just announced 6 new bands in the form of melodic doom act Katatonia, Gorgoroth's re-incarnation in the form of God Seed, Year Of No Light, Shining and Mourning Beloveth.

Katatonia will be playing 'Viva Emptiness' in it's entirety, Anders Nystrom, said: "Since it looks like November will bring us Damnation, we're absolutely certain there'll be some Swedish export of atmospheric dark metal coming your way with it! We couldn't be more psyched to celebrate our 'Viva Emptiness' album anniversary at a festival we never got to play before. So Leeds, join us and be damned!".

In an interesting turn of events due to a...

Tomorrow night, 23rd June 2013, the Boston Arms Music Room in London plays host to one of the most exciting gigs of the year (in our humble opinion).  Around 10 years ago New Jersey based Funeral Doom band Evoken finally made it to the UK to unleash their eagerly anticipated live show.  It was not meant to be though, and after being screwed over by the promoter the date didn't go ahead. They played a stunning set at Roadburn Festival in 2011, and now, finally, we are able to witness them for the first EVER time in the UK for an exclusive London date.  If you haven't checked out their latest album, "Atra Mors", released last year on Profound Lore, or their classic "Antithesis of Light" then you are seriously missing out.

The promoters behind...

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...

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...