The Black Map #208: Kilonova from Newcastle!

First of the month and “A pinch and a pinch for the first of the month and no returns back” is uttered followed by “A kick in the d*** for being so quick” wherever you are. Kids and adults alike joining in the stupid game and coffee getting spilled in the process. It doesn’t help if you’re suffering from the combination of a Sunday morning hangover and a sore neck also known as a Bangover as coined by Municipal Waste which tenuously enough brings us to the subject of this week’s entry in our black book of the United Kingdom Underground Metal scene, the Black Map.

How so? Fellow Thrash Metal purveyors Kilonova. Hailing from Newcastle upon Tyne and guarded by The Angel of the North they have spend the past five glorious years bring plague and pestilence to our green and pleasant land. Reducing venues to rubble with their techtonic plate shifting blend of Thrash and Groove Metal with their well received 2019 EP “Omnicide” the culmination of work that began in 2017. The story goes that after a few too many beers (Newcastle Brown Ale probably) in a sweaty nightclub, bassist Joe Bambrick and guitarist Jonny Sloan agreed to start jamming together and form a band. That eventually ended up in first single “Better Off Extinct” and they haven’t looked back since, sharing stages with Sertraline, Dreameater and Democratus along the way.