It’s no secret that we’ve been working with Reading Progressive Death Metal trio Mercury’s Well over the past few years, helping promote Summer Bash and as we prepare to head out to the annual Hawaiian themed beach party this year, it has to be said we’re excited at the prospect of the actual day like a
In the middle of a heatwave in the United Kingdom’s green and pleasant land, as Festivals rage across Europe, bands incorporate a few smaller than usual club shows to sell them out for intimate performances while keeping themselves warm. Tonight is one of those as Witch Country heroes Cradle Of Filth are joined by Brazilian
A whistle stop European Festival run for Canadian home coming Queens Kittie is a thing of beauty and the fact that the band are able to sell out The Dome the day after an appearance at Download Festival bodes well for the longevity of their return. A new album in last summer’s “Fire” via Sumerian
A sold out show is always a thing is beauty and tonight the O2 Academy in Islington is packed to the rafters for the return of Australian Progressive Metalcore merchants Make Them Suffer. Seven years after they last headlined a London show, tonight is a celebration of last year’s self titled album, a record which
How do you finish a glorious summers day? A few pints of Guinness and a Metal show is always a good shout, so we head into the big smoke for a night of Extreme Metal, Deathcore and Metalcore from four bands who should know better. Believe it or not, the last time we witnessed German
At this point in their career in Metal, Irish Thrash overlords Gama Bomb have to be considered stalwarts of the scene. The kind of Barnacle that’s so firmly attached the bottom of the ship that there is zero chance of scraping it off without putting a hole through the hull. Our first introduction to them
An album release show at the intimate venue that is The Black Heart in Camden gives Folk Horror Pagan Progressive Metal act Forlorn the opportunity to offer the gift of “Aether” to an unsuspecting World via Church Road Records. As a band, the five piece fronted by Megan Jenkins have been around since 2019, waterfall
If you asked Gordon Morison or Frank Regan back in 1998 if they’d still be playing shows in Raging Speedhorn twenty seven years on and they’d have asked you what you’d been smoking. Their 20th Anniversary show with the original line up taking to the stage at Camden Electric Ballroom in 2018 galvanized both the
Imagine if you will watching your favourite bands playing in your friends living room in front of an open fire while a storm is raging outside. You’re surrounded by your good people, drinking craft beer and soaking up the warm, life affirming atmosphere. That’s The Castle Tap in Reading in a nutshell, an unassuming venue
North Greenwich is tonight’s destination as “The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour” has arrived at the O2 Arena in the heart of London. A special occasion that celebrates the 20th anniversaries of two iconic albums released in the same year, as if the title didn’t give it away, the tour finds Welsh Metal heads Bullet For My
