Having undergone major surgery with a style shift as they explored Gothic and Symphonic influences with their last album “No Great Loss“, Vancouver Canadians Ritual Dictates who feature in their ranks former members of 3 Inches Of Blood and Revocation, have gone feral with a cover of “Buffalo Run” by Orville Peck. For those not in
Ritual Dictates who are formed of former members of 3 Inches Of Blood and Revocation have followed up the October release of new album “No Great Loss” with the release of a music video for “Succumbing To The Ravages Of Age“. The new album finds them having mellowed out and taken an altogether different fork in
Back in 2014 Vancouver, British Columbia based musicians Justin Hagberg and Ash Pearson got together and recorded 2020’s “Give In To Despair“, an album that saw them through the conventions they were known for in aggressive Death Thrash out of the window. Instead they continued down the left hand path fusing together a collection of
When former Revocation and 3 Inches Of Blood pairing Justin Hagberg and Ash Pearson released “Give In To Despair” as new project Ritual Dictates two years ago it had everything you’d expect from them with Death, Thrash and Grindcore influences in the melting pot. Their sophomore album “No Great Loss” however is an entirely different
In our Black Map feature last week we showcased Belfast Negative Hardcore crew No Great Loss. So with no further wait, courtesy of Wayne Donaldson Photography, here’s a Pro-Shot set from them at a home town throwdown of a show at Voodoo in Belfast on 18th May 2017. Their current EP “Eternal Sleep” is out
Continuing our journey across The Black Map of the UK Underground Metal Scene, we head across the pond to Belfast. The capital city of Northern Ireland was in 1800 a major port. By 1888, it was one of the largest ports in Europe specialising in Linen production, Tabacco processing and rope making and ship building.
Alton Lounge Bar in association with Pathfinder Promotions UJ & Caliber MGMT Presents – Alton Half Dayer @ Lounge Bar. That’s right, in perhaps the strangest of locations, some of the hottest upcoming UK Metal and Hardcore bands on the scene at the moment join forces for 6 hours of wall-to-wall distorted guitars and blast beats.
