Yearly Archives: 2012

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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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

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.

Today Damnation Festival have announced Belphegor, Extreme Noise Terror, Wodensthrone and Devil Sold His Soul to the already impressive bill.  Here's the official press release:

AUSTRIAN death metal machine BELPHEGOR will play their only UK show of 2012 at Damnation Festival, performing the most brutal tracks from their new album.

The demonic group head up an unforgiving announcement for this year's Terrorizer Stage with crust punk pioneers EXTREME NOISE TERROR and English black metallers WODENSTHRONE also joining the stage which already boasts a headline billing for 

The final 3 bands have been confirmed for this year's Kill-town Death Fest taking place in Copenhagen 30th August to 2nd September.  They are Necrocurse, Mold and Chaos Echoes.  Read more from the release below:

KTDF is proud to present to you from Uddevalla, Sweden, NECROCURSE (swe)! Death Metal rebels NECROCURSE is featuring members and ex-members of such prominent acts such as Niefelheim, Runemagick, The Funeral Orchestra, Pagan Rites and Treblinka! NECROCURSE has 4 ep´s behind them and is currently writing material for a forthcoming album due to be recorded in autumn this year and released by Pulverized Records. Prepare for some pure swedish metal madness to be unleashed upon Kill-Town!
More info: http://necrocurse.com/

KTDF is also happy to welcome a new