Yearly Archives: 2014

Desertfest have continued the announcements for the 2014 lineup adding the experimental Japanese act Boris as headliners for the Electric Ballroom on the Sunday and Weedeater as the main support to headliners Kvelertak on the Saturday night.   Boris hail from Tokyo and have gone through pretty much every genre known to man over the years since their inception in 1992 releasing...

As mentioned on our facebook page earlier today Bolt Thrower have been announced as the headliners for Damnation Festival 2014 taking place at Leeds University Union on 1st November 2014.  

Vocalist Karl Willetts said: "Well, we always knew if we were ever going to play a festival in the UK, it would be Damnation Festival; as we've only heard good things about it from mates who've been, and other bands who've played it." 

"So we’re chuffed our only UK show of 2014 - and the foreseeable future - will be Damnation’s 10th Anniversary Bash… Grind on.”

This year marks the 10th anniversary...

Canadian trad Heavy Metal band Iron Kingdom are heading to Europe for a string of festival dates and will be popping briefly onto our shores in May 2014.  Their self released second album "Gates Of Eternity" came out in April last year scoring 9/10 from Rock Hard (Germany) who said it "could prove to be one of the most important discoveries in 2013 for US metal lovers".  It has recently been released on tape by Tridroid Records.

They will be supported on the tour by our very own Hundred who have just released their debut album "The Forest Kingdom Part 1" scoring an...

It's just one week to go until the first When Planets Collide show of 2014.  The "Winter Warmer Weekender 2014" takes place at The Windmill in Brixton next weekend headlined by 2 bassist sludgy power violence noise bastards Palehorse on the Saturday and Sunday will see a headline slot by murkier than you electronic doom hey look it's a new genre can't be pigeonholed, Necro Deathmort.  Yep we went there.

Tickets are priced...

Oakland based genre creating earth shifters Neurosis have announced a date on 4th May in Leeds in addition to their appearance at the first edition of Temples Festival.  Now correct me if I am wrong here, but I think this might be their first date North of London since 1997 when they supported Entombed with Breach.  It's been a long time overdue!!  The date is at Leeds met university and tickets are available here with support to be announced soon. Keep an eye on the event page here and we'll update it as soon as the support is announced.

Just in case you've been stuck in a cave the last few months Neurosis...

After crushing the UK in November 2013 with sell out dates Nails are heading back for a European tour in June 2014. The tour includes a single UK date in London at Birthdays on the 26th June 2014.  Todd Jones had this to say:

"NAILS will be returning to European soil June-July 2014 to celebrate the release of Abandon All Life with our Tyrants across the Atlantic. We'll be playing legendary metal festivals such as Tuska Metal Open Air, Graspop Metal Meeting, With Full Force Festival, and Roskilde in Denmark, as well as multiple headlining shows in Germany and one in Paris. Before arriving in Europe, we will be making a stop in London to play one exclusive show in the UK. Last November we played some of the best...

Blood Ceremony have announced 4 UK dates in addition to their appearance at this years Temple Festival. Last year the Toronto fourtet released "The Eldritch Dark" on Rise Above (Europe)/Metal Blade (US) to rave reviews from webzines and print magazines, and made a fair few end of year lists.  They play on the first day of Temples Festival supporting Electric Wizard and the newly announced Brutal Truth, along with Jucifer, Moss, Witchsorrow, Anaal Nathrakh, Winterfylleth, Wodenthrone, Code, and Flayed Disciple.  Tickets are available here.  In addition to Temples Festival they will play 4 UK dates with support coming from Spiders (Sweden).  The dates are as follows...