Live Review: Bloodstock Open Air Festival – Catton Hall, Walton-On-Trent 08.08.2024
An annual pilgrimage, a field in deepest darkest Derbyshire and as much metal as you can physically absorb for four days must mean only one thing, it was time for Bloodstock 2024. With the Thursday historically serving in recent years as an amuse-bouche, Bloodstock seems to have stepped it up a gear this year and …
News: Fortress Festival Announces 2025 Line Up
The Mighty and Magnificent Fortress festival will take place again on the Yorkshire coast in the beautiful and exquisite town of Scarborough at the Scarborough Spa from 31st May to 1st June 2025, and thus far, they have not been disappointed with the announcements. To date, they have unleashed festival headliners Agalloch alongside Moonlight Sorcery …
News: Incineration Festival Announce Date and Line Up For 2025
The next edition of Incineration Festival will take place on Saturday 3rd May 2025, and they are going bigger and getting louder ! In the spirit of extreme metal, across five hallowed grounds they will lower the tone and present the next edition of Incineration Festival. They recently enthused “We are honoured to be adding …
Live Review: Pearl Jam – Co-Op Arena, Manchester 25.06.2024
This was my first outing at the monstrous Co-Op Arena. After I had navigated my way to the car park and then the perimeter of the Manchester City Etihad Stadium, I found myself traversing the outskirts of the Arena and then hitting the mesmerising innards of the new complex, and it was truly magnificent. The …
Live Review: Kerry King / Celestial Sanctuary – The Electric Ballroom, London 18.06.2024
As I rounded the corner from the tube I was met with an impressive line of black clad souls decorated in shirts ranging from the proudly worn decades old greyed out shirts to newer designs worn with just as much pride, a cacophony of shirts emblazoned with Thrash bands, although the Slayer moniker was without …
Live Review: Fortress Festival Day Two, Scarborough Spa, Scarborough 02.06.2024
With the sun high in the sky on yet another glorious day it was time for me to make my way down to the SPA again for another day of blackened entertainment and another day jam packed full of extreme metal. Kicking off my day on the Main Stage were Ante-Inferno and with the festival …
Live Review: Fortress Festival Day One – Scarborough Spa, Scarborough 01.06.2024
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside and what better excuse than for a Black Metal festival packed with a line-up of UK live debuts, albums being aired in full and even a worldwide live debut thrown in for good measure. This was a Black Metal lineup which was simply delectable. When it …
Live Review: Ferocious Dog / The Cloverhearts – Nightrain, Bradford 24.05.2024
So I was venturing out to territory unknown for an evening of punk courtesy of the Cloverhearts and the awesome Ferocious Dog at the infamous Nightrain in Bradford, and after my journey had been thwarted by a colossal amount of road closures and road works, I eventually made my way into the venue to be …
Album Review: Kerry King – From Hell I Rise
Years in the making and its finally here, the legend Kerry King is back, and he has unleashed his latest prodigy on us, and this is a beast of a record. ‘From Hell I Rise’ is the creation spawned from one of Thrash’s greatest sons, and it does not disappoint. The opening track, ‘Diablo,’ starts …
Live Review: Incineration Festival – Camden Town, London 11.05.2024
It was that time of year again. We were getting a bit of respite from the inclement weather with a bout of glorious sunshine, and the colossal Incineration Festival had rolled into Camden Town once more with only one thing on its mind: to bring its 10th anniversary edition and absolutely crush all who stood …