Tag: Tech-Fest

Bootleg: Rammstein in Moscow!

If like us you have been surprised by the sheer scale of the Rammstein stadium tour across Europe and we’re we’re equally pained by the fact that they were playing Milton Keynes for their only UK show in 2019 slap bang in the middle of Tech-Fest (like we were going to miss that!) then this

NEWS: Harbinger splice live footage for “Descendants”!

A wealth of live footage (including some from their stand out set in the Fireball Whiskey stage at this summer’s incarnation of Tech-Fest) has been spliced together like the DNA of Aliens to create a hybrid video for “Descendants” from Harbinger! We had the pleasure of chatting to bassist Kris Aarre at lat weekends Radar

Live Review: Radar Festival Day #1: Friday

We’re at the first incarnation of a brand new Progressive Metal Festival in Guildford Surrey, taking place in a Casino a stones throw from the train station. It promises two days of wall to wall Metal with a wide range of bands we know well taking to a pair of stages with no overlapping sets.

NEWS: Uneven Structure set to release “Paragon”!

Progressive Tech-Metallers and Frenchmen Uneven Structure have set a date of 18th October via Long Branch Records for their latest offering “Paragon”. While pre-orders are available here the band have also given us a taste for what is to come in with a music video for “Innocent”! Does this mean the potential for a Tech-Fest

Documentary: Archspire on Bus Invaders!

Extreme Technical Death Metallers Archspire were without a doubt one of the highlights of this summer’s incarnation of UK Tech-Fest. The bit that you don’t get on the recorded material is the stage presence and hilarious banter from frontman Oliver Rae Aleron. So on today’s episode of Digital Bus Invaders from Digital Tour Bus, here’s

The Black Map #67: Cognizance from Leeds!

Keeping us in the North of England and taking us to Leeds and the home of a band for whom playing live is as rare as rocking horse s***. Having taken to the stage at the 2018 incarnation of UK Tech-Fest, Cognizance have exactly zero shows lined up for the arrival of their upcoming new

Live Review: UK Tech-Fest afterthoughts

It’s been just 7 days since we left Newark Showgrounds after another triumphant incarnation of Tech-Fest, thanks to Simon Garrod and the team. The Festival that inspired the creation of Metal Noise back in August 2017 has completed its 8th year and remains the King of the Underground Metal Scene, the UK’s equivalent of Euroblast.

Playthrough: “Lower Than She” from Faces of Eve!

He may have hurt his hand and required an ice pack prior to his band taking the stage for their set at Tech-Fest but Faces of Eve bassist Owen Morris didn’t let that effect their performance! He’s recorded a playthrough of “Lower Than She”, their current single on his Ibanez BTB405QM in Drop A tuning

Exclusive Interview: Vexed on Tech-Fest and all the rest!

We had the pleasure of of not only witnessing the onslaught of a set from Deathcore quartet Vexed at the Fireball Whiskey stage at UK Tech-Fest but also of meeting frontwoman Megan Targett afterwards. Having released just a pair of singles in “Dominate” and “Elite” prior to the 2019 incarnation of the event, they were

NEWS: Unprocessed test us with the “Prototype”!

The sophomore album from German Progressive Tech-Metallers Unprocessed continues to have great promise with this latest pre-release single stream from Long Branch Records. It comes in the form of an animated video for “Prototype” from the record “Artificial Void” slated for a 9th August. They’re front runners for the 2020 incarnation of Tech-Fest!