We’re here a little earlier than yesterday for what is going to be coined Love Metal Saturday, as Tuska Open Air Metal Festival says farewell to local heroes HIM. The opening act today is Lik. Saturday’s 1.45pm start is so relaxed that when they come on there’s next to nobody …
Read More »Tuska adds Electric Wizard, Barathrum and Oranssi Pazuzu to 2017 bill
TUSKA 2017 – ELECTRIC WIZARD, BARATHRUM AND ORANSSI PAZUZU ADDED Right before Christmas, Tuska Open Air announced 3 more deep-digging artists to next summer’s festival. Read the details below: British doomsters Electric Wizard, led by Jus Osborn, will make sure the skies are overcast as they return to Tuska after several …
Read More »Desertfest London 2016 First Acts & Headliner Announced
Desertfest are pleased to announce the first acts for the 2016 London edition, including the first headliner for next year’s proceedings. It’s no easy feat to try and top your biggest success to date, but we’re ready. Here’s a fistful of acts to get you excited for what we have …
Read More »Electric Wizard – Time to Die
If there’s one thing you can give credit to Electric Wizard for, it’s sticking to their guns. Time to Die, their eighth studio album released at the end of last month, continues that trend. Throughout their now 21 year history, they’ve never swayed to the mainstream, never gone along with …
Read More »Roadburn confirms Friday night main stage line-up
The final main stage line-up for the Friday night ‘Houses Of The Holistic’ stage at Roadburn 2015 – which takes pace in Tilburg in The Netherlands from April 9 – 12 – has now been confirmed. UK gothic innovators Fields Of The Nephilim will make an exclusive special guest appearance …
Read More »Satan’s Satyrs announce Europe Dies Again Tour!
Rising high above the overkill of self-styled occult rock that lurks in the underground at present. SATAN’S SATYRS are blazing a trail through a nightmarish world of battered VHS videos, overheated ampstacks and dog-eared vinyl, and are a band fit to set the pulse of any self-respecting trash connoisseur racing. …
Read More »ELECTRIC WIZARD reveal brand new track, ‘SadioWitch’
ELECTRIC WIZARD have revealed a second track from their forthcoming full-length album, ‘TIME TO DIE’, set for release via Spinefarm Records on the 29th September. Titled ‘SadioWitch’ and featuring the line ‘the black drug took my soul away’, the song will be accompanied by a video, currently being edited. Little …
Read More »ELECTRIC WIZARD Announce UK Headline Show In Manchester
Electric Wizard have announced a UK headline show for October 23rd at The Ritz in Manchester. Tickets are available here: http://po.st/KSpIv5 A full supporting bill will be announced in due course. The Manchester show will be preceded by the release of ‘TIME TO DIE’ on September 29th via …
Read More »ELECTRIC WIZARD premiere new track “I Am Nothing”
Electric Wizard, who recently revealed the title and artwork for their Spinefarm Records debut album, premiere the first new music from “Time to Die” with the song “I am Nothing“, streaming now via the Spinefarm Records Soundcloud… https://soundcloud.com/spinefarmrecords/electric-wizard-i-am-nothing EW guitarist / vocalist Jus Oborn has said of the track, which …
Read More »Sonisphere 2014 – Friday 4th July – Review
Sonisphere 2014 marked the 40th year of festivals held at Knebworth and what better way to celebrate than to bring 60,000 music fans together for a hot, sunny and lightly showered weekend of metal dominance! A late starting Friday meant that fans were able to arrive in good time …
Read More »Reverence Festival (Portugal) announces bands incl. Hawkwind and Electric Wizard
On the 12th and 13th September, Reverence Festival celebrates the best in psych, stoner, shoegaze, doom, prog, garage and beyond, with some sixty bands playing over two days on four stages, including the hugely influential spacerock titans Hawkwind – performing in Portugal for the very first time. The resurgence of …
Read More »Kadavar – Abra Kadavar
Kadavar are another in an increasingly long line of bands – such as Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats and Purson – who recently have been following in the footsteps of illustrious predecessors of the ilk of Electric Wizard and Spiritual Beggars in re-ploughing the retro furrow of late-60s psychedelica blues meets …
Read More »Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Blood Lust
Amidst the streams of asinine tripe we’ve been subjected to from heavy music in the past few years, it’s something to be thankful for that occult rock is enjoying something of a resurgence these days. Despite not having a strict “sound” so to speak, it’s always a pleasure when a …
Read More »Black Magician – Voodoo, Belfast – Friday February 15th 2013
Belfast’s doom heads were out in force for this evening bringing together three of the finest exponents of the art on the local scene, with headliners Black Magician having headed over from England for the start of a brace of gigs on this side of the Irish Sea. Dublin trio …
Read More »Damnation Festival, Leeds University Union, 3rd November 2012
The 2012 Damnation Festival is set to take place on the 3rd November at Leeds University Union. The complete line-up for Damnation Festival is: Electric Wizard, My Dying Bride, Pig Destroyer, Belphegor, Amenra, Primordial, Extreme Noise Terror, Textures, Devil Sold His Soul, Aura Noir, Gama Bomb, 40 Watt Sun, Maybeshewill, …
Read More »Wacken 2nd to 4th August 2012
The biggest Metal Festival of the world! Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 70,000 festival visitors, it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal, death metal, power metal, thrash metal, gothic metal …
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