SLABDRAGGER Featuring London hardcore legend Sam Thredder on vocals/guitar, they have already established a castiron reputation with 2011's acclaimed debut album 'Regress' on Holy Roar records and a multitude of sterling live appearances including opening for Supersonic 2011, plus support for a recent Saint Vitus tour. Since last year they've got a new drummer and released a split album with offkilter Suffolk cruststars Meadows. 'Slabdragger expectorate a level of punkish aggression and restlessnessﾅthe sheer acerbity of the likes of Bab ElMandeb and the constant threat of anarchic collapse makes you wonder why they're not playing bigger shows already' Metalhammer 'London's Slabdragger are heavier than a thousand bronze Buddhas and yet still manage to rock out with all the balls of a classic power trio reared on 1980's hardcore' 'Buried at Sea meets Motorhead at a Discharge after party listening to high on Fire while ripping bongs and chugging beers' Sludgelord 'Sounding like the band have gone all the way and downtuned their roadkill cat gut strings to E' 'Something has woken up, angry and sniffing its fingers. If you listen to this and don't want to head bang, you are scum' Beard Rock 'Brilliantly loud and precise drumming from new lad Nicolas Soteri and the icing on the hashcake: twin vocal roaring from Sam Thredder and Yusuf Tary that uttered forth from their whiskered gobs like ectoplasm from the blackened maw of Linda Blair' The Sleeping Shaman GURT GURT have been responsible for sore necks in and around London since 2010, playing with the likes of Naam, Spider Kitten, Steak, Sedulus and at Desertfest 2013. They take the blues and groove of 70s rock and drag it backwards through the swamps of Louisiana. The drums are thunderous, the vocals demonic and the guitars downtuned, downtempo and downright sexy. This is not doom, this is not sludge, THIS IS GURT. 'Gurt is the most whacking metal beast I've seen so far. Yeah, I would even go so far as to say that Gurt is the definition of ﾓfucking heavyﾔ, with their grooveladen thick and abrasive sound, Gareth Kelly's outoflimbos voice, and their laidback but charismatic attitudeﾅ You can only get addicted to them' The Heavy Chronicles 'Working in influences of postSuperjoint Ritual thickened punk along with their standard Eyehategod fuckall, frontman Gareth Kelly's screams all the more vicious and throatsearing from the stage' The Obelisk 'Londoners Gurt keep it muscular. Kelly strides the stage throughout and works the frontrowhugging punters well with his growling and menacing vocal onslaught. Rich Williams headbangs away blasting out a long series of hulking Godzilla chords from his woodfinished guitar' The Sleeping Shaman BURDEN OF THE NOOSE Duel vocal assault and battery hailing from Birmingham, Burden of the Noose incorporates sludge with hints of hardcore, with countless gigs since the band formed in 2012 the band have gone from strength to strength. Recently recorded 2 tracks will be available soon.