The Tenth Anniversary of UK Tech-Fest will take place across the weekend of 29th June to 3rd July 2023 at Newark Showgrounds and the powers that be have announced their first wave of bands with some HUGE names in Death Metal, Deathcore, Progressive Metal, Nu-Metalcore and Groove Metal both Underground and Undefeated alike taking to
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
Saturday may be a day with showers on the weather forecast but the beauty of Tech-Fest is that the stages are inside interlinked hangers with a merch and bar area between them meaning that the weather isn’t a factor that counts against enjoying any of the bands. After yesterday’s Metal buffet, today is a shade
As Festival Season fast approaches and gossip turns to line ups, just remember that the early bird catches the worm and those bands that are opening up such events deserve some attention. After all, it’s an honour to be selected to get any party started! One such event is Amplified Festival, returning after a leave
What do bands do when they write something out of keeping with their usual sound? Well rather than scrap it off, Tiberius have chosen to get their friends involved for an 80’s Metal inspired shred-off! So they’ve pitted against each other Tom Moore of Valis Ablaze and Adharma fame, Matt Jones from Birmingham Progressive Metallers
Featuring guest appearances from Andreas Bjulver of Cabal and Jeremy Gomez of Red Method, Nottingham Tech Metallers The Five Hundred have returned with sophomore album “A World On Fire” via Long Branch Records and Bassist Andy Crawford spoke to Heavy New York about the inspirations behind it, the state of the UK Metalcore scene and
It took us a moment to get our heads around the combination but The Five Hundred have chosen a second single from their end of the month releasing new album “A World On Fire“. That cut is called “Walls Of Jericho” and features a guest appearance from Andreas Bjulver of Cabal… As opposed to what
When you have people like Alex Baker from Kerrang! Magazine describing your debut album as “Cinematic, crushing brilliance” you know you must have done something right. But that was then and this is now so following that description of “Bleed Red” by The Five Hundred, the band have announced that their sophomore album “A World
Video shot and produced by Dark Fable Media using The Rescue Rooms, a fine Metal establishment in Nottingham, The Five Hundred who Alex Baker from Kerrang! Magazine described as delivering “Cinematic, crushing brilliance” have dropped a new single entitled “The Rising Tide” via label home Long Branch Records. The track follows neatly on from single
Nottingham downtuned riff masters The Five Hundred have returned with a track entitled “Black Dog” produced by Justin Hill (SiKth, Hacktivist), which marks their first since 2018’s “Bleed Red“. It’s available over at bandcamp with Long Branch Records promoting a video created with the help of Richard Oakes at Dark Fable Media. Vocalist John Woods-Eley
