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Death Angel UK Tour dates announced

Death Angel UK Tour

Woahhhh okay this one is a bit special. Death Angel are re-releasing The Ultra-violence and playing the album in full on a tour which includes UK dates

Check out this update from Death Angel:

I am proud to announce that we will finally make our debut album, “The Ultra-Violence” available after more than 10 years out of print! Digitally remastered but, not altered – it sounds leagues better than the original pressing yet retains every ounce of vibe, character and

By Antony Roberts|2012-05-09T00:00:00+01:00May 9th, 2012|Featured Gigs|0 Comments

Pentagram announce first ever UK tour

Pentagram UK tour 2012

This is bloody awesome!!

PENTAGRAM have announce their first ever UK tour in the forty years they’ve been together in October and November 2012.

After the Doom pioneers first ever UK show in London last year Bobby Leibling and the boys return for four shows with Gentlemans Pistols as support:

PENTAGRAM + Gentlemans Pistols

October 2012

31^st BRISTOL – The Fleece

November 2012

1^st LONDON – Garage

2^nd MANCHESTER – Academy 3

4^th GLASGOW – Ivory Black

Tickets are £15 and on sale now via www.ticketweb.co.uk

If you need convincing of why you need to go check out our review from their first ever UK date. This happened in London in December last year here.

By Antony Roberts|2012-05-08T00:00:00+01:00May 8th, 2012|Featured Gigs|0 Comments

WIN Saxon’s Heavy Metal Thunder Digipak, CD or VINYL!!!!

Saxon Heavy Metal Thunder DVD competition

Saxon have just released Heavy Metal Thunder live coming in a ton of formats and we've got copies up for grabs!!!

We have already got a copy of the digipack and the CD up for grabs. We also have a copy of the Vinyl on it's way, but this is coming from Germany and should be here soon.

Read through to the bottom to find out how you can be in with a chance to win...

Heavy Metal Thunder – Live – Eagles over Wacken is available in several formats, including vinyl. The release features DVD highlights from Saxon‘s Wacken shows in 2004, 2007 and 2009 comprising 30 songs, plus a live CD from Glasgow in 2011. The British heavy metal legends perform all their unforgettable classics, from Denim & Leather and Metalhead to Heavy Metal Thunder and from Princess Of The Night to Crusader, for the 75,000 strong audience of the traditional German gathering.

By Antony Roberts|2012-05-03T00:00:00+01:00May 3rd, 2012|Competitions|0 Comments

Live Review: Paradise Lost, Insomnium, Vreid, The Brook, Southampton, 17th April 2012

Paradise Lost live review Southampton

Paradise Lost + Insomnium + Vreid

The Brook, Southampton, Tuesday 17^th April

Words by Nicholas Holmes

Photos by Tess Donohoe www.tessdonohoe.com

Days after the anniversary of Titanic's demise, it is perhaps vaguely appropriate that one of the greatest gloomy bands in British music history land in Southampton, the city from which the doomed vessel sailed just over 100 years ago. However, Paradise Lost have proved to be far from a sinking ship as they approach their quarter century next year. The nearest they have come to steering off course has been the departure of three drummers. That particular role has been ably filled since 2009 by possibly the busiest sticksman in metal, Adrian Erlandsson, who also plays for Nemhain, Brujeria and Swedish legends At The Gates. Phew! On what is their

By Antony Roberts|2012-05-03T00:00:00+01:00May 3rd, 2012|Gig Reviews|0 Comments

LIVE REVIEW: Skindred, Therapy?, Black Spiders, The Defiled, Brixton Academy 13th April 2012

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Jagermeister Tour 2012: Skindred, Therapy?, Black Spiders, and The Defiled

Brixton Academy, London, Friday 13^th April

Words by Nicholas Holmes

Photos by Tess Donohoe www.tessdonohoe.com

In August last year, purely coincidentally following a Morrissey gig, Brixton Academy was at the centre of the riots which caused mayhem across the city for several days. There really was panic on the streets of London. Fast forward several months, and Friday 13^th April proves lucky for thousands of fans keen on a more convivial type of chaos – the Jagermeister Tour featuring four of the best bands in modern British heavy music. Even better, the tickets cost just a fiver, and this show sold out ages ago.

By Antony Roberts|2012-04-29T00:00:00+01:00April 29th, 2012|Gig Reviews|0 Comments

Grimpen Mire streaming new album in full for free

Grimpen Mire stream new album for free

Grimpen Mire are streaming their new album for free. We've had this on in the office for the last few weeks and it RULES. Go take a listen at their Soundcloud here:

http://soundcloud.com/grimpen-mire/sets/grimpen-mire-a-plague-upon

By Antony Roberts|2012-04-29T00:00:00+01:00April 29th, 2012|Featured Bands|0 Comments

Album Review: Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol

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Album Review – Paradise Lost “Tragic Idol”

by Nicholas Holmes

The number “13” has long been thought of as representing bad luck, but in this case that proves not be. Yorkshire doom legends Paradise Lost have produced a thirteenth album that should satisfy long-time fans and hopefully bring onboard new ones too. The five-piece have experimented with electronica and an almost commercial hard rock-type sound at some points in their career, but the trend more recently has been toward the classic sound of the early to mid-90s, when “Shades of God”, “Icon” and “Draconian Times” helped define a genre. Some years ago, Paradise Lost were labelled by some as “the British Metallica”, and as the US mega-band attempted with 2008's “Death Magnetic”, “Tragic Idol” represents a back-to-basics approach. It is the sound of a band who know what they do best.

By Antony Roberts|2012-04-21T00:00:00+01:00April 21st, 2012|CD Reviews|0 Comments

CD REVIEW: Conan – Monnos

Conan Monnos Review
Having just returned from Roadburn we figured what better way to start back than with a review of Conan's new album Monnos. The hype surrounding this band gets bigger everyday, and they played stage 01 at Roadburn to a crowd bursting at it's seams and spilling out into the outer corriders. It was simple, if you got there late, you weren't getting in, and they absolutely destroyed the place along with a few eardrums on the way...

Conan - Monnos - 2012

By Gary Lukes

Darwinism be damned. Over the howling cycle of passing millennia, mankind has allegedly evolved from bacterial lifeform to troglodytic primitivism. From intrepid firestarter to destructive splitter of the atom. Not that I expect Conan give a shit. It’s probably fair to say “progression” doesn’t feature highly on their list of priorities. This is a band less concerned with reinventing the wheel and more preoccupied with exactly how hard to run the listener over with it.

A throwback to another time. One before vocoder vocals, polyrhythms and bass-drop breakdowns. This is the sound of purists playing with no regard to trends or scenes; endeavouring simply to create a timeless monument to doom.

But just because they possess a vision as singular as the cyclops gracing the cover, doesn’t prevent the band from standing out. In the short space of one EP and a split with

By Antony Roberts|2012-04-17T00:00:00+01:00April 17th, 2012|CD Reviews|0 Comments

At Roadburn….back soon!

Roadburn 2012

Metalgigs will be away at Roadburn for the next week.

Site creator Antony will be helping shoot and update the Roadburn website with lots of photos over the festival, so why not head to www.roadburn.com to catch up on what's happening. This year's line up is amazing as always with Sleep, Yob, Necros Christos, Disembowelment, Agalloch, Ulver, Voivod, The Obsessed, Jesu and many, many more.

We will be continuing to update facebook and twitter whilst away so why not like/follow us to stay in touch with all the goings on...

www.facebook.com/metalgigs

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By Antony Roberts|2012-04-09T00:00:00+01:00April 9th, 2012|Site Updates|0 Comments

LIVE REVIEW: Hammerfest IV Friday review

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Hammerfest 4 Review Part 1 – Friday

by Nicholas Holmes

Photos by Tess Donohoe (www.tessdonohoe.com/)

Hammerfest, organised by Metal Hammer magazine with the team behind Hard Rock Hell, celebrated St Patrick's Day weekend in thoroughly drunken style, with several thousand heavy metal fans making the bi-annual pilgrimage to the Pontins holiday complex at Prestatyn on the North Wales coast.

The line-up this year featured some true legends in the form of Big Four US thrashers Anthrax and Yorkshire's doom-driven Paradise Lost, plus Swedish death metallers Amon Amarth and eclectic, eccentric Welsh wonders Skindred – not to mention a huge bill of bands that may have been overlooked by others or new ones looking to make their mark.

The weekend includes fancy dress themes, band autograph sessions and a bustling market area where you can get tattooed, stock up on CDs, shirts and patches. Then there is the amusement arcade, open until 3am where hardcore party animals can win a giant-sized cuddly Winnie The Pooh to take to bed. Or not.

The event is all about the live music, and the bill covers numerous genres and tastes across three stages. There really is something that will appeal to everyone. Here are some of the highlights...

By Antony Roberts|2012-04-08T00:00:00+01:00April 8th, 2012|Gig Reviews|0 Comments

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