Damnation Festival 2017 Review

Over the years, this one day event has seen some of the biggest names in extreme metal perform at this venue and over time, it has become one of the year's best events for death, black and doom metal as well as other individual music types that have helped to forge this event into one … Continue reading Damnation Festival 2017 Review

Lords of the Land 2018 announces first bands

No headliners as yet - they'll be announced on November 6th - but four brilliant acts to whet the heaviest appetite have just been added to the roster. Text courtesy of LotL themselves... Lords Of The Land are over the moon to announce the first round of bands for our third edition taking place on 7th … Continue reading Lords of the Land 2018 announces first bands

Tour News: Joe Bonamassa, Ryan Hamilton and The Traitors, Make Them Suffer, Sworn Amongst, Uneven Structure, Vallenfyre, Belphegor

I think I'm right in saying this is the largest number of tour announcements we've ever had in our inbox after two days so I'm going to get on with it because this might take a while! Joe Bonamassa And who else could start off this list but the celebrated child prodigy, now blues virtuoso … Continue reading Tour News: Joe Bonamassa, Ryan Hamilton and The Traitors, Make Them Suffer, Sworn Amongst, Uneven Structure, Vallenfyre, Belphegor

Review: Vallenfyre – Fear Those Who Fear Him

In the world of extreme metal we increasingly see established artists forming successful side-projects, to indulge their true musical passions.  When famous artists from different bands join forces, the term supergroup is often used or in some cases sadly misused. In the case of Vallenfyre, there are solid grounds to use such terminology. Founded by … Continue reading Review: Vallenfyre – Fear Those Who Fear Him

Saturday Video Roundup: The Obsessed, Vallenfyre, Nine Miles South, Booze & Glory, FOES, Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly

Holy fudgesickles, is it the weekend already? Time flies round when you're on holiday. Wrap your listening flaps round this lot... The Obsessed - "Sacred" Doom rock legends The Obsessed have shared the mystifying new music video for the title track of their new album Sacred. Said album, their highly-anticipated first album in over 20 … Continue reading Saturday Video Roundup: The Obsessed, Vallenfyre, Nine Miles South, Booze & Glory, FOES, Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly

Bloodstock 2016 interview (courtesy of PlanetMosh): Vallenfyre

Thanks to the lovely folk at PlanetMosh for allowing us to republish their video interviews from this year's Bloodstock after our recording equipment was eaten for dinner by gremlins! Vallenfyre are up now, with a couple of members pulling double duty with Paradise Lost over the weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcFIFV9wyIg