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Yes this line-up does look a slightly odd mix on paper. What happened was this was meant to be two shows with Arcturus, Vulture Industries and Krakow playing upstairs at the much bigger Dome venue. Ticket sales, no doubt due… Continue Reading →
Scroll to bottom for photos, be warned they are not safe for work! Italian, Norwegian, British, Finnish and Greek bands all clash headlong on stage this evening bringing a pure axis of evil to London. First up are the Italians… Continue Reading →
On Friday 17th April, the world’s death metal community had the tattered old carpet whipped violently out from under its feet, as it was announced that the twelfth edition of the awesome Neurotic Deathfest festival that was about to commence… Continue Reading →
I did rather swear when this gig was announced as I realised it was the same night as Prong in London. Well you can’t be in two places at once and it was really no contest as I had never… Continue Reading →
For those of you who have ever been to the Academy in Liverpool, you will know it is a 2-stage venue. Academy one is the larger of the pair and whilst I’d hoped Prong would have played there, it wasn’t… Continue Reading →
Day Four – Saturday 4th April Taking a short tour with my shooter around some of the records shops in Oslo could have been fatalistic to our finances but we restrained and took some more silly photos amid the piles… Continue Reading →
Day Three – Friday 3rd April Two days of extreme metal done, two to go as the third day started with Italian death metal act Ade whose melodic death metal was tinged with a keyboard like backdrop and some… Continue Reading →
Day Two – Thursday 2nd April 2015 After the hugely enjoyable first night it was difficult to perceive how things could get better but they did with each passing moment it felt as Thursday got underway with a trip to… Continue Reading →
Day One – Wednesday 1st April The 15th anniversary of Norway’s most prestigious metal festival had me saving up for months prior to descending upon it. The second incarnation of Blastfest held in February was also a tempting proposition… Continue Reading →
Such is the multi-genre billing tonight, I expected a larger crowd than what actually turned up, but not withstanding a late showing of the openers Evil Invaders, the venue was set alight from their opening notes. There are bands that… Continue Reading →
It was a windy night in Camden. Inside the Black Heart, three bands were waiting to treat us to some black metal and other variations. It was dark inside, so much so that Alex on the merch stand had to… Continue Reading →
Camden is amidst its normal stench exuding a particular shade of metal tonight. Vader and Hate are playing round the corner at the Underworld and the queue snakes down the road but furtive doom acolytes gather down the alley outside… Continue Reading →