Even with the most experienced stage crew on Planet Metal, turning a stage around between bands at a show or festival ain’t like changing the tires on a Formula One car. It usually takes between 15 and 20 minutes to tear down a drum rig, swap cables, amps, pedal boards, place drinks, tape setlists and
18th November will see twelve bands and hundreds of fans decent upon The Facebar in Reading for Reading Rising IV, a one day festival like no other. A warm and friendly atmosphere, a collection of hilariously titled cocktails and a sweaty mosh pit are all on offer, as is shelter from the rain, a collection
12 bands. 2 stages. 0 clashes. That’s the mantra of Reading Rising Festival which returns for its fourth incarnation at The Facebar in Reading on 18th November. Their first announcement unveiled four bands in perfect symmetry, letting us know just who the headliners would be. Breaking with that however the second wave sees just two
What’s in a name? Well a lot actually. A new line up have brought fresh ideas and a new sound and so Sertraline have taken the decision to rebrand themselves Waterlines although changing their name on social media and keeping their followers has proved to be more difficult than it needs to be. They’ve launched that ship
The second of three at the Casino Night Club in Guildford for Radar Festival is a big one with bigger crowds and slush puppy style pints of frozen Pimm’s on offer as well as a plethora of bands bringing riffs in plentiful supply from 13:00 to the midnight hour to keep us entertained. We predict
The annual journey to the Mecca that is Newark Showgrounds for Tech-Fest may have been disrupted for two years but with tickets carried over and a great selection of bands on offer, we couldn’t be more ready for years incarnation! Four days of wall to wall Metal of every flavour is just what the Doctor
First of the month and “A pinch and a pinch for the first of the month and no returns back” is uttered followed by “A kick in the d*** for being so quick” wherever you are. Kids and adults alike joining in the stupid game and coffee getting spilled in the process. It doesn’t help
It seems surreal but Tech-Fest favourites Sertraline have released one last single with Lizzie Parry and Dan “Hendo” Henderson in “Coda” to end their chapter of the band following their final tour in September. The band will be continuing on and finding a pair as talented as them is going to be a challenge but
Now that the rapturous applause of their final shows with vocalist Lizzie Parry has died down, Sertraline have unveiled one last single in “Vivid” with her to close that chapter of the bands history before a new vocalist is announced. The band have gone back to Myroslav Borys (Confessions Of A Traitor, Last Hounds) at
Travelling back down the United Kingdom from Glasgow and Death Infused Thrash act Dominicide to Newcastle and Rituals who describe themselves as Modern Metal is the way we roll with our weekly look at the UK Underground Metal scene. Both bands have in common that they’re dropping new EPs in September (which is where the
