Unlike other festivals we’ve attended where bands don’t start until high noon, Bloodstock Open Air Festival gets going early with bands from 10:30 which is cool because there is no waiting around the be entertained. After yesterday’s overcast and drizzle nonsense, the sun is shining as we emerge from our tents like Ace Ventura from
The brainchild of guitarist and vocalist James Oliver, Austin Texas Blackened Speed Metal powerhouse Sadistic Force have spent the past four years wreaking havoc in a style which can be best described as Venom subjecting Motorhead to a vicious beating. Their last two albums “Aces Wild” and “Midnight Assassin” have enhanced their glowing reputation to the
A month after single “Liar In Wait” premiered Derbyshire Blackened Thrash outfit Devastator have shared a performance of the Motörhead classic “Iron Fist” cut from their set at Fortress Festival 2023 in Scarborough earlier this month. Mixed and Mastered by bassist and vocalist Nachtghul, it finds the band building on their critically acclaimed 2020 Clobber
Originally formed way back in 1987 in the East of France, Old School Thrash Metal quartet Aleister hung up their boots in 1997 having released six demos on tape and a debut album in “Tribal Tech” in 1994. After more than 20 years of silence the original rhythm section of drummer Eric “Neon” Fleury (ex-WorMachine,
After two weeks in University Cities that share a boat race that captivates a certain percentage of the populious for 20 minutes every year, we head North to Durham for this weeks entry in our Black Map. A feature that acts as a siren, calling those sailing the seven seas of Metal to some of
The last single featuring the classic Motörhead line-up of Lemmy, “Fast” Eddie Clarke and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor, as Clarke left following the recording of the “Stand By Your Man” EP, a collaboration with the Plasmatics, “Iron Fist” has to be one of the British heavy metal highlights of 1982. Covered by many, feared by
Nancy Sinatra may have worn the boots but she can’t have known that after having had such a huge hit in 1966 with the song “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” written by American Country and Pop singer Lee Hazlewood that there would have been so many covers of the cut floating around 56 years
Recorded with Neil Combstock at Rocking Horse Studios in Durham during the sessions for their self titled EP, purveyors of Death n’ Thrash Metal influenced shenanigans Mortal Chains have premiered a new single titled “Go to Your Grave“. Inspired by and in tribute Motorhead and the much missed Lemmy Kilmister it celebrates the 45th anniversary of
The Law makers Exhorder are the latest to throw at us a music video for a performance of a cut from the compilation “Love Me Forever“, an A List celebrity tribute to Motorhead with their rendition of “Sacrifice“. Curated by the organisers of Psycho Las Vegas and with vinyl editions available for pre-order here, the
Including renditions by Exhorder, High On Fire, Eyehategod and a myriad of other legends, a new compilation album is on the way titled “Löve Me Förever: A Tribute To Motörhead“. Recorded during last year’s Psycho Las Vegas as a tribute to the patron saint of the event, the late great Lemmy Kilmister it will appear
