Skepticism are celebrating their 20th anniversary by finally coming over to the UK for the first time ever. Not only that but it gets better.....they're playing for an hour and a half and it's going to be in a church!
Support will come from London's Pantheist and
Hands up who wants to see Triptykon and Enslaved on the same night :)
Defenders Of The Faith Tour 2012 - tickets available soon...
Cannibal Corpse, Triptykon, Enslaved and Job For a Cowboy (JFAC???? really???)
7 March - O2 Academy Bristol
8 March - O2 ABC Glasgow
9 March - Manchester Academy
10 March - London HMV FORUM
11 March - HMV Institute, Birmingham
Had a news release come through from Metal Blade today, exciting news about a free show coming soon...
2011 is the year of the 25th anniversary in the history of BOLT THROWER. It´s about time for an update from the band:
"Anniversaries are kind of easy to achieve. For a band, just don't split up and you'll reach one, whether it's 10, 20 or 35 years. And this year we've reached '25 years of not splitting up'!
We managed to stop others from making a big fuss about it, and didn't give
GWAR have announced 6 UK dates so far, but there's plenty of dates inbetween missing, so we're guessing there's more to be announced.
Check their page here for the dates so far, or click read more...
HEADCAT
Proudly Announce Their First Ever London Show
Headcat have announced a date at the Relentless Garage and tickets will go on sale tomorrow morning at 9am from the www.livenation.co.uk at the very reasonable price of £16.50, this should be a blast!! We'll hopefully be there, the show will take place on 16th October 2011. Here's what they had to say:
Henry Rollins has announced a nationwide UK spoken word tour for January 2012.
The ex-Black Flag front man/comedian/actor/angry man is bringing his "The Long March" tour to the UK in early 2012 (let's hope it's not snow chaos again like this January!).
www.metalgigs.co.uk has learnt that Yob have now got 5 of their UK dates sorted, and Dark Castle and Kongh will be supporting, they are as follows:
10.10.11 London, United Kingdom - Purple Turtle (Dead Existence also to support on this date)
11.10.11 Leeds, United Kingdom - The Well
12.10.11 Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Bannermans
13.10.11 Manchester, United Kingdom - Star & Garter
14.10.11 Bristol, United Kingdom - The Croft
The times have been released for the Seven Churches Festival and I gotta say we're getting excited, this is one of the most awesome line ups outside of Roadburn this year! Here's what the promoters have said:
The day will now run as follows!
Black Sun 9:15 - 10:00
Age of Taurus 8:30 - 9:00
Winterfylleth 7:45 - 8:15
Bong 7:00 - 7:30
Undersmile 6:15 - 6:45
Bast 5:30 - 6:00
Rise of the Simians 4:45 - 5:15
Dopefight 4:00 - 4:30
Doors 3:30pm
NB - The curfew is at 11pm to allow for any diva antics or overruns :)
Also if people still want tickets, here is the link again: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108395
pic courtesy of Damnation Festival
Damnation Festival announced some big additions today in the form of the mighty Godflesh as well the post rock band God Is An Astronaut and the almighty hell sounds of the awesome Altar Of Plagues. This lineup is starting to get ridiculous, better start planning how you are getting there!
photo courtesy of Last FM
Amon Amarth add new date - London HMV Forum 23rd October, As I Lay Dying to support.
Also Karma to Burn August dates now have confirmed supports....
Now looks like this
4/8 Bristol, The Fleece, Karma To Burn, Black Spiders, Gentlemans Pistols
5/8 London, Underworld, Karma To Burn, Sedulus, 1+ TBC
6/8 Leeds, Cockpit, Karma To Burn, Black Spiders, Gentlemans Pistols
7/8 Birmingham, HMV Institute, Karma To Burn, Black Spiders, Alunah