live review: new model army, holmfirth picturedrome, 4th august 2023

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Ozzy Osbourne will be joining Black Sabbath for one last time and it will see the first time that the original Black Sabbath line up has been together in 20 years. The one day festival, to be held at Villa Park on 5th July, will feature a mouth watering array of Heavy Metal heavyweights including …

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A double celebration of landmark albums was on the cards in Manchester tonight and carving open the evening with a massive Swedish sledgehammer was the unequivocally crushing Orbit Culture and boy did they absolutely annihilate us from the opening chords of ‘Descent’ to the punishing bars of the absolutely colossal ‘Vultures Of The North’. The …

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It’s always going to be a fun evening when the Pagans and Pirates are in town and when Paganfest rolled into Manchester it was no different. Elvenking opened the preceding’s with their brand of Italian Folk Metal and immediately hit us with an impressive and powerful ‘Throes Of Atonement’, leaving no stone unturned when it …

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PAGANFEST returns after 10 years with the strongest line-up (Alestorm, Ensiferum, Týr,  Heidevolk & Elvenking) and the most and biggest shows ever! Created by RTN-Touring (Rock The Nation) between 2008-2015 with seven editions in Europe and two more in the USA, Paganfest was the most successful festival tour of the pagan & folk metal scene. Since …

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American thrash assailants Warbringer are set to bring the hammer of heavy metal to Incineration Festival in 2025, joining our ever-heavier, stacked Electric Ballroom billing. Joining Blood Incantation on the ‘Absolute Elsetour’ campaign next Spring, Tokyo’s MINAMI DEUTSCH become the latest addition to Incineration Festival to be making their Incineration debut. Canada’s WORMWITCH return to …

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Due to high demand a limited amount of day tickets have been released – 50 total per day Over 1,500 weekend tickets have already been sold. Festival expected to sell out soon. Tickets still available via FortressFestival.co.uk/tickets Day tickets and day splits have been released for rising black metal festival Fortress Festival, which will take place on …

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DEFEATED SANITY unveiled as co-headliner for OFFAL FEST 2025; full line-up revealed Veteran brutal death metallers Defeated Sanity to co-headline Sunday along with Internal Bleeding as 14 new bands revealed for next year’s edition Putridity, Begging For Incest, Indecent Excision, Plasma, Impurist, Chainsaw Castration, Ancient Rivalry and many more other new bands complete the 2025 …

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Three of the biggest Thrash bands had descended upon Manchester for an evening of uncompromising Extreme Metal courtesy of Testament, Kreator and Anthrax, and the house was absolutely rammed to the rafters and pretty much bursting at the seams. This is what all dreams are made of for any Thrash fan and in order to …

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Two years have passed and on this wintery evening it was time to welcome back to the Midlands, the Dutch Symphonic Masters Within Temptation. With the temperature plummeting outside the arena there was no such fear of this being replicated inside the complex as the anticipation steadily evolved and swelled with a healthy crowd already …

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 FORTRESS FESTIVAL reveals complete 2025 line-up and third stage Dödsrit to make their UK debut following last-minute cancellation in 2024 Darkher, Sylvaine & Osi And The Jupiter to perform on new third stage in a candlelit atmospheric escape environment on the Fortress Saturday Only under 300 tickets left via FortressFestival.co.uk/tickets Fortress Festival has revealed further new names …

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