Events

Metal Blade Records Teams Up with SiriusXM Liquid Metal to Celebrate the Label’s 30th Anniversary. More events take form as Metal Blade Records continues to celebrate the label’s 30th anniversary, which already included a packed showcase at SXSW in Austin, TX and the recent announcement of the label’s Scion A/V …

First instalment of Glasgow’s extreme metal night kicks off on Friday 16th November at Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald St. Glasgow Ceol Dorchas Productions is set on bringing the best underground bands to Glasgow! Necro Ritual: Anglo Satanic War Metal from London Daemonolith: Scotland’s Black Metal Heathens. Last gig ever due …

Second instalment of Glasgow’s extreme metal nights kicks off on Saturday 8th December at Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald St. Glasgow Ceol Dorchas Productions is set on bringing the best underground bands to Glasgow! Destroyer 666 Blackened Thrash Metal Bonesaw  Aberdeen Death Metal Solstheim Glasgow Black Metal Doors 7pm, 18+ Tickets …

B.A.M.S promotions Present- BECKON+Dirty Rose plus 2 more bands T.B.A on the 8th November at 19:30 at Pivo Pivo. The First Taste of the All Crushing/Brand new/Metal monster that is BECKON!! Over the last three plus Months we have been asked if we would be back as a live force …

Download 2013 will be held on the 14th to 16th June at Castle Donington at Donington Park, DE74 2RP. Confirmed headliners are Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Rammstein *Announced Line up so far:   FRIDAY 14 JUNE                           SATURDAY 15 JUNE                      SUNDAY 16 JUNE MAIN STAGE SLIPKNOT                                             IRON MAIDEN                                        RAMMSTEIN Bullet For …

The Halloween Zombie Ball 2012 take place on Saturday 27th October at Exeter Phoenix after the Zombie Walk through Exeter City centre This years ball opens at 5pm and runs til late with Double headliners Fearless Vampire Killers & The Dead Lay Waiting being supported on the main stage by …

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, …

Skarlett Riot hit London for their first ever headline show in the capital at Nambucca on this Sunday 16th September support comes from The Mariana Hollow, Evilyn & Glam Ryze.   Born in the summer of 2010 in North Lincolnshire, Skarlett Riot are a brazen four-piece female fronted hard rock …

16th Headbangers Open Air will be held on the 25-27th July 2013 at Brande-Hönerkirchen, Germany. Not without reasons the Headbangers’s Open Air is called “the biggest garden party of the world”. It takes place in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, near Elmshorn (40 km away from Hamburg). The venue is the yard of a burnt …

The latest update regarding 6th Sunflower Jam. It gives us great pleasure to announce that Alice Cooper will be joining the line up of super musicians at the 6th Sunflower Jam, Rock & Roll Music Event on Sunday 16th September 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall, London.  The evening, hosted …

                    Hornet re-energise rock ‘n’ roll at its unpretentious best with a fusion of punk and metal having been described as a ‘21 year-old AC/DC with Henry Rollins on vocals!’ Hornet, consisting of Joe Thompson (Vocals), Tollef Rikje-Pearson (Guitar), Max Thompson …

Bloodstock Open Air will be held on the 9th-11th August 2013 at Catton Hall, Walton on Trent, Derby.

The 24th Wacken Open Air takes place on the 1st to 3rd August 2013.

      FRIDAY 31st AUGUST to SUNDAY 9th SEPTEMBER – RED LION, Crete Hall Road, Gravesend, Kent DA11 9AA 6 STAGES, 10 DAYS, THE BIGGEST EVENT IN NORTH KENT – EVER! BREED 77, MALEFICE, PRAYING MANTIS, SILENT DESCENT, SPIT LIKE THIS, SLAM CARTEL, GENERATION GRAVEYARD, SANCTORUM, GAZ MARLOW (INME), MENTALLICA, …

Set to take place December 14-15, 2012 at the Effenaar in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. There will be 39 bands on 2 stages during 2 days.   The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ANCIENT RITES BLACKLODGE BRUJERIA – excl. NL show CARACH ANGREN CHRIST AGONY DARK …

Rock for S.O.P.H.I.E II is the second charity fundrasing event for the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, will be held at The Lamp Tavern in Dudley on the 24 to the 26th August Due to the success of last years event and interest from bands this is now a 3 day event …

Fury descends on Glasgow on Friday night for their first ever Scottish gig! The guys will unleash their distinctive blend of hard hitting thrash and metal on the ABC2!. Fury have been working non-stop this year after releasing their second ep ‘Burn The Earth’, playing at Hammerfest and HRH Road …

Dundee’s Metal Festival Hordes Of Belial III is back on the 22nd September at The Beat Generator Live, Nth Lindsay Street, Dundee. It is a 14+ event, door 5.30pm and tickets are superbly priced at £15 on the door or £10 pre order. The current line-up of The Rotted (England), …

The night  ahead was about pure skill, musicianship, pelting rhythms and in your face lyrics. A night I was most looking forward to and I wasn’t the only one. There was no local support just straight in with Voodoo Six’s perfect blend of classic rock and roll with modern heavy rock. What …

Since the birth of garage-rock/grunge, The Sonics, hailing from Tacoma, Washington, are one of the founding bands of Seattle’s’ music scene.  Having come from what was seen as the bands early retirement The Sonics returned to the stage to play 2 sold out shows in at the Warsaw in Brooklyn, …