Southampton Joiners is a sweat box of a venue at the best of times and tonight is no different. Portsmouth’s Sleepwalker [7/10] take the stage and get things started in tech-infused low tuned Metalcore style with frontman Sam Salkeld baiting the crowd (perhaps with that Southampton Portsmouth rivalry thing going on) before joining a circle pit.
The O2 Academy 2 in Oxford is the venue for tonight’s live mayhem, with a pair of home town bands on an impressive bill that could and perhaps should be a tour in it’s own right, rather than a one off warm up show for Carcer City before they play Camden Rocks! Opening a show
Tonight is the second of Machine Head‘s sold out back to back “Evening With” nights at the 1,700 capacity Roundhouse in London, a pair of dates slap-bang in the middle of the Oakland California Metaller’s eight date UK run. From the opening bars of “Imperium” to the ticker-tape fall of “Halo” the show is a celebration
The O2 Academy Oxford has two shows on tonight. The main auditorium has South African hard rockers Seether playing a headlining show on their “Poison the Parish” tour while the Academy 2, the second stage, has Death Remains headlining a bill of 5 underground metal bands as they play 9 dates beside Stoke-on-Trent’s answer to Every Time
It’s a sold out show tonight at Camden Underworld, such is the anticipation of a huge four band line-up taking a step away from the Impericon Festival dates to gain further exposure. Tonight marks We Came As Romans last show on this European run and whilw the rest of the bands will return to the
It’s a blisteringly hot Saturday in April that sees the Metal Hammer Sponsored “The Sin And The Sentence” tour arrive for it’s final show in London. The venue? A sold out Brixton Academy that has 4,921 Metal heads descending on the capital. The closing night of a nearly 7 week European run has concluded with
It maybe a smaller venue, but The Purple Turtle bar in Reading can certainly pack them in and tonight’s free show as part of the BBC’s “Introducing” campaign is no different. By the end of the set from Farnborough Alt-Rocker’s Origami Heart, the place has turned into a sweatbox. In a short but sweet set the
Camden’s The Black Heart is tonight’s venue, unassuming and without signage, at most 100 people could fill the place. Hertfordshire’s Faces Of Eve open tonight’s set with frontman Benjamin Black donned the theatrical half and half mask as seen in the video for ‘Rail/Grit/Line”. The band play through a set covering off material from their debut
The O2 Academy in Islington is sold out for tonight’s co-headling show, the 7th date of the trio of bands 19 date European tour. The co-headliners have always seemed like an odd pairing, despite having played the likes of Vans Warped Tour together. Veil of Maya have descended from being a Deathcore band to incorporating
Tonight is the last night of the UK leg of Butcher Babies “Lilith” tour. The UK has been hit by storm Emma and blizzard conditions for the last four dates of this run and yet the bands are here for tonights show like nothing has happened. In the build up tonight, a pair of acoustic
