Category: The Black Map

The Black Map #252: Tape It Shut from Reading! (Summer Bash V Edition)

Bristol, Leeds and Southampton are just three of the Cities that will have bands descending like Vultures on Reading in on 22nd July as the Facebar is turned into Hawaiian themed beach party by their hosts Progressive Death Metal trio Mercury’s Well for Summer Bash V. It’s the  fifth anniversary of the annual tomfoolery which

The Black Map #251: Masquerader from Reading (Summer Bash V Edition)

It’s the weekend of the Coronation of King Charles III and his wife, Camilla and the United Kingdom will be celebrating with champagne followed by scones, clotted cream and jam. Which means the age old argument about the “right” way to do scones will be brought back to life like the reanimated corpse of Frankenstein’s

The Black Map #249: Pteroglyph from Leeds (Summer Bash V Edition)

At the end of the United Kingdom rainy season affectionately known as April, after you’ve stopped shoving your face with all the chocolatey goodies of Easter, it’s time to look ahead to the summer. We’re not talking about getting beach body ready (whatever that means) or making sure last years sunglasses are where you think

The Black Map #247: You Win Again Gravity from Windsor!

Approaching a decade together, Windsor natives You Win Again Gravity are a band approaching a sophomore album “Into The Dancing Blue” inspired by bands like Deftones and Oceansize. They credit producer Oz Craggs (Feed The Rhino, Mallory Knox, Neck Deep) at Hidden Track Studios in Folkestone with giving them a huge sound as first single

The Black Map #246: Exdestrier from Edinburgh!

It’s funny the difference changing a single letter can make in a word. Take the forthcoming record from Edinburgh natives Exdestrier as an example. Change one letter – an A for an E – and “Glorious Barbarism” becomes “Glorious Barberism“. In one letter change you’ve gone from a record about extreme cruelty and brutality, like