Having released a trio of singles in the last few months, Milton Keynes DJentlemen Hacktivist have announced a trio of November UK shows after a European trek with Afterlife in support of Japanese Mythology loving Frenchmen Rise Of The Northstar. The first of those stops will be at Mortal Metal Festival! 1st Wycombe, Phoenix Bar
Pro-Shot at La Trianon in Paris on 18th May, Rise of the Northstar have delivered a video for “Here Comes The Boom” as a precursor to their European Tour with Hacktivist and Afterlife that kicks off later this month. We saw the French lovers of all things Japanese in London back in April with Emmure
Preston Lancashire Grime Metal quintet Gassed Up may claim “Gnostic State” is an EP but with 7 tracks, technically speaking it qualifies as an album on streaming platforms. Without doubt one of the hardest working bands on the UK Underground Metal Scene, vocalist Dan Crossley, drummer Shaun Hunkin, bassist Matt Unsworth and guitarist duo Jack
Chester Metallers In Depths have mapped out the their remainder of 2019 shows with Vexed in October, Harbinger and Godeater in Bradford and King Abyss for a hometown throwdown. A trio of co-headlining shows with Depravity will kick of December in fine fashion as current album “Devil In The Deep”, Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by
The annual post Tech-Fest rehab clinic otherwise known as Techabilitation continues its around the venues tour, having gone from London to Derby, this year’s incarnation will be at The Bread Shed in Manchester! The one dayer will kick off at the gunslingers duel time of high noon on Saturday 2nd November with a suitably impressive
There is no doubt that the second incarnation of Mortal Metal Festival which is taking place at the Phoenix Bar in High Wycombe over the weekend of 1st November is THE place to be for all that is good about the UK underground Metal Scene. Not only is the line-up incredible, but so is the
FLÜX are a band of comprised of people you know with guitarist Timfy James being formerly of both Heart of a Coward and Hacktivist and Heart of a Coward bassist V Khetia joined by Perry Smith to inject DJent groove into songs with anthemic quality. We saw them land a punch square to the jaw
“The Disconnect Tour” marches on into November with Heart of a Coward announcing simply that their will be special guests supporting them in the trek for their 4th album of the same name out now via Arising Empire. If it was possible we’d have a number of the band members pulling double duty and have
Taking lyrical inspiration in part from a series of talks by Mark Passio and George Orwell’s themes of “Double Think” and “News Speak”, Hacktivist have followed up their Prodigy cover with a brand new single entitled “Dogs Of War”. What’s more, the tune is accompanied by the news that Milton Keynes DJentlemen will be hitting
Seeing as it’s Sunday and the day after Radar Festival, we’re going to cheat a bit on this weeks entry in The Black Map and bring your further attention to a band we saw in action only yesterday. Why? Because we can and they were different and interesting. FLÜX are a trio comprising Guitarist Timfy
