Tag: Wall

Rabidfest 2025: Breaking Down The Bands #17: Kill II This!

If a man with no arms and a gun in his pocket, is he armed or unarmed? While you muse on that one, lets issue a timely reminder. Rabidfest is Oxfords finest Metal Weekender and will take place over the weekend of 1st and 2nd of November at The Bullingdon. There will be twenty bands

Rabidfest 2025: Breaking Down The Bands #16: Wall!

They say time flies when you’re having fun, one minute you’re at Catton Park in Derbyshire enjoying all that Bloodstock has to offer in the blazing summer sun, the next it’s just thirty one days until November and Oxford’s finest Metal Weekender Rabidfest. Where does the time go? Earning cold hard cash to spend on

Live Review: A Bloodstock 2025 Experience (Sunday)

Emerging from our tents like something being birthed on a David Attenborough documentary it’s safe to say it’s f***ing hot on Sunday morning in Catton Park. After yesterday’s phenomenal line up there are sore heads a plenty as well as queues for the facilities and everyone’s on a bit of a go slow. Machine Head

NEWS: Another Brick from WALL!

A byproduct of the great plague years, Wall, the side project of Desert Storm and The Grand Mal that finds brothers Elliot and Ryan Cole playing  Stoner Sludge Doom Metal together will be releasing their debut album “Brick By Brick” via APF Records 30th August. Born of the  frustration at not being able to tour

NEWS: Wall build brick by brick…

While their main squeeze Desert Storm will be playing Bloodstock Open Air Festival this summer, brothers Elliott and Ryan Cole will be unleashing riffs fit for worship with “Brick By Brick“. A debut full length album from their instrumental Stoner Metal project Wall, it will appear as if by magic via APF Records on 30th

The Black Map #235: Wall from Oxford

Idle hands are the devil’s workshop so what do you do when you’re already in two bands who regularly tour not only the United Kingdom but also Europe and love a Festival appearance but you’re bored in doors, chained to the radiator due to a plague sweeping the Globe? Well to prevent yourself from losing

Live Review: Rabidfest 2022 Day #2 (Sunday)!

It maybe pouring with rain outside but we have the warmth of The Bullingdon as refuge in the heart of Oxford for day two of this year’s incarnation of Rabidfest. We just hope that any homeless folks have managed to find shelter from the inclement weather as we prepare for another tsunami of riffs, powerhouse

Live Review: Rabidfest 2022 Day #1 (Saturday)!

The day is finally upon us and Oxford beckons for 20 bands at The Bullingdon and this year’s incarnation of Rabidfest. A celebration of the great and the good in the UK underground Metal scene that also pays attention to some of the local talent, it’s a vitally important event in the calendar for the

Rabidfest 2022: Breaking Down The Bands #18: Red Method!

“We live it everyday, in this cycle of violence, Through your world I bring suffering and grief, In this endless cycle of violence, Through your world I bring suffering and grief, I, It feels I’m getting colder, I, demons calling my name, Yeah! Now I know, I’m dependent again, I swear deep down I’m clinical,

Rabidfest 2022: Breaking Down The Bands #17: Krysthla!

“Blood is running through your hands like a vision without colour lifeless grey burn the gift of life itself premonition see the end the darkest day feigning truth a wretched lie is a weapon live and die now by the sword poisoning their brainwashed minds like a venom suffer through a new dischord Caught in