The good people at desertscene.co.uk have arranged a UK tour for the legendary New Orleans sludge band Eyehategod. They areset to to return to the UK with The Gates of Slumber in July and August 2013. The 2011 and 2012 UK dates were sold out with fans being turned away from the doors so we advise you to get tickets as soon as they go on sale (no on sale date confirmed yet).
The tour will hit the following...
The lovely folk at Omniverse Vision have issued us with 2 tickets for one lucky winner and a mate to go and attend the London screening of the Judas Priest Epitaph screening. This is the UK cinema premiere screening of the last ever Judas Priest performance in HD and surround along with a live support band, Cage The Gods. The full press release is below, this sounds pretty nuts:
On Wednesday May 15, in association with PLANET ROCK, THE FORUM in London will play host to JUDAS PRIEST EPITAPH. To celebrate their 40th year as recording artists, fans will get the chance to...
The Exhumed UK tour kicked off tonight in Bristol with loads of upcoming dates including an alldayer this Saturday in Dublin.
Support for the whole tour comes from Seprevation with local acts added to the bill on each of the dates.
Dates are as follows:
8th May Bristol - Exchange
9th May Manchester - Star and Garter
10th May Cork - Fred Zepplins...
If there was a band that has impressed me so much and had me hooked from the very first minute of listening, that band would have to be Usnea. And these guys have left me in pure awe.
And their music is oh so hard to describe, lots of funeral doom influence, actually a mixture of doom styles. Black metal has a big impact on the vocal delivery and the feeling and atmosphere of the music. There is also a fantastic range of drone and experiments of noisy unstructured phrases that do add dynamic and dimension to the songs.
What does the...
We've got a pair of tickets to giveaway to see Norwegian rockers Audrey Horne who are heading back to the UK and Ireland. The tour is in support of their fourth album "Young Blood" which was released in February on Napalm Records.
Support for the tour comes from The Mercy House and Sahg.
We have a pair of tickets for the London show on 2nd May so you and a lucky friend could be in with a chance to win if you...
Owing to a flat tyre I arrived at this gig just in time to hear the very last chord of Crypt Lurker’s set. Walking into a fifty strong crowd who were obviously well satisfied with the set they had just seen. After speaking to several it seemed that Crypt Lurker had just pulled off their best set to date. I’m genuinely gutted to have missed it.
Next up and the first act playing were Manchester based Wode. They were according to their tumblr site formed in 2010 and play Atmospheric Black metal/crust. I’d not heard of them before so Wode were an unknown commodity and when they...
Think Desertfest, think desert bands, right? Wrong! Whilst the festival gears itself towards the stoner and doom scene there is alot more diversity with the line up than you'd perhaps first think from the title. This year on the Saturday Seven Churches will be curating the Black Heart stage and organisers Matt and Josh have gathered a truly inspired selection from the cream of the underground spanning all...
Yes it may say metalgigs at the top but we cover all forms of heavy music on the site so when Louise sent me through the news that Ninjafest was coming back for 2013 I had to get this up. Here's all the official info that's been sent through:
NINJAFEST 2013... BACK FROM THE DEAD
Putting on its first edition in 2002 at The Dome in North London, Ninjafest became a European Hardcore staple over the next six years. From its humble beginnings as a two-day festival headlined by Heaven Shall Burn and Liar, the two girls behind Ninjafest – May and Rachel – took their idea of starting an annual hardcore festival in the UK and turned it into the unmissable yearly party it eventually became.
Playing host to bands such as Champion, No Redeeming Social Value, Terror...
Following on from a quite alarming but funny thread on the Metal Hammer facebook there was an abnormal amount of people commenting about how many bands they didn't know on the Desertfest line up. We figured it was about time we posted up one of our regular festival/gig preview pieces so you can check out all the bands in one place. First up is the Human Disease Promo/When Planets Collide stage which features on the Sunday in the Underworld. Desertfest tickets are on sale now but selling fast so click here to insure you secure your ticket. Stay tuned for preview pieces on the rest of the stages/days over the next few days...
Irish upstarts Visceral Attack are already laying siege to The Underworld as we arrive, and doing a damn fine job by the sounds of it. An energetic shot of thrash/punk that ends far too soon for my liking. It’s been a few years since the plucky five-piece last trod English soil. Don’t be strangers.
This feel-good factor is swiftly shat upon, with crust-fucks Bastard Hammer here to ruin your day. Reduced to a three piece on the night, the band lose nothing in battering ram intensity. The primitive crusty groove of songs like...