Featured Gigs

Priapus promotions are putting on The Day Of Rapture alldayer on the 25th August.  Tickets priced at just £5 get you entry for 11 bands!!  Good to know the home of Damnation Festival has so many good bands and a strong scene.

Priapus Promotions have once more returned to bring you not just an evening of quality Yorkshire metal, but a full day celebrating the bountiful pleasures the Yorkshire metal scene has to offer! Not to mention, the night will be extended in the form of an extreme metal clubnight until 2am! So come down, support the local scene and get a request or two from their resident Extreme Metal DJs!

For tickets and more info check the event page here.

The dates have been up for a while but support has now been confirmed for former The Gathering vocalist Anneke Van Giersbergen's UK Tour as Mojo Fury and Death Letters.

Anneke van Giersbergen has announced full details of her autumn tour in support of long-awaited album “Everything is Changing” which was released through PIAS earlier this year.

Anneke van Giersbergen started her solo career back in 2007, she had already been the frontwoman of Dutch metal pioneers The Gathering for 13 years. Together with her band Agua de Annique she released several outstanding albums to both critical and popular acclaim in a short period of time which immediately put her in the picture as a solo artist. 

Her new album, “Everything Is Changing”, not only

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

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.

If you need further

Talanas have just been announced as support for the upcoming My Dying Bride gig in London.  My Dying Bride who have also recently been announced as one of the bands to play at this year's Damnation Festival will be making a rare apperance at London's O2 Academ Islington on Friday 7th December 2012. Tickets are on sale at £16.50 and can be purchased here.

Talanas seriously impressed us at last year's

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 

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.

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

Bloodstock Metal Madness  – Day Tickets Now On Sale!

After last year's amazing Bloodstock Festival (see our review here) Nick Holmes takes a moment to refresh why you NEED to go this year:

As the crappy washout of a summer continues, there are less than four weeks until thousands of serious metal-heads land in rural Derbyshire for this year's Bloodstock Festival. The grounds of Catton Hall, Walton-On-Trent will be rocking and moshing to possibly the best line-up the event has had so far.

It features a wide mix of bands crossing the rock and metal spectrum, from the Satanic spectacles of Watain and Norwegian black metal pioneers Mayhem – both playing in daylight! - to the UK comeback of Nergal and his Polish comrades in Behemoth and part-time golfer, full-time legend and godfather of schlock rock, Alice Cooper! Not forgetting Robb “Lord Browneye” Flynn and Machi

Nasum have announced a final European farewell tour. Of interest to metalgigs.co.uk is that a London date is included on the tour.

They play the Camden Underworld on Tuesday 25th September tickets can be purchased here now

Don't expect tickets to hang around for this.

Support comes from Black Breath.