Tag Archives: SOS Festival

Black Aces ‘Fear No Beer’ As They Return to the UK   ‘Aussie hard rockers Black Aces are headed back to the UK for their ‘FEAR NO BEER TOUR’. Hailing from Bendigo in regional Victoria- a town with more pubs than post boxes- Black Aces are set to bring their …

Melodic hard rockers, Atlas, joins PlanetMosh for a video chat at SOS Festival. To find out more about Atlas and what they have planned watch the video here:   to find out more about Atlas check the link below: https://www.facebook.com/atlasprojectuk  

Geo (Devience) joined up with PlanetMosh for a video interview at the SOS festival to discuss touring, recording and much more. Watch the video interview here.   Useful Links http://www.devience.com/gio-spano.html https://www.facebook.com/deVIenceband/   SOS festival tickets for 2020 available now http://www.mwaweb.com/SOS_2020_HOME.HTML

Empyre joins PlanetMosh at the SOS festival for a video chat to discuss their new album Self Aware, touring dates and much more. Watch the video interview here.   Empyre useful links https://www.facebook.com/EMPYRE/ https://www.empyre.co.uk/   Tickets for SOS festival 2020 now available from the link below http://www.mwaweb.com/SOS_2020_HOME.HTML  

Once again it’s time to bang our heads with the five French lunatics Gang and their latest studio release All For One, recently released via Underground Investigation. The press release statement of “Old school heavy metal” is reinforced by the CD inlay of “The flame of heavy metal is still …

Guitars GUITARS GUITARRRRRRS! I’ve never heard an album so drenched in axe work since The Power Of Rock And Roll by Frank Marino way back in 1981 as British heavy metallers Absolva launch a 180gm vinyl format of Defiance that is packaged in a gatefold cover and printed inner sleeves. …

SCREAMING EAGLES ANNOUNCED AS SUPPORT TO BUCKCHERRY – BELFAST & DUBLIN – OCTOBER 2016 Screaming Eagles will be special guests of top US rockers Buckcherry on the Irish leg of their 15th Anniversary World Tour. The shows will take in Belfast (Limelight 2) and Dublin (Whelans) on October 12th & 13th …

SOS Festival is thrilled to announce the first 9 bands for our 2017 edition, the 10th in our history. Headlining Friday we’re delighted to announce Kill II This. It’s great for us that another Manchester band has the kudos to headline, just as Absolva did us proud on our Friday …

Saturday dawned hot and sunny for SOS festival day two and I made it back just in time to catch openers Soma Dark who were another thrash band with shouty vocals but also some melody. They powered through a short set that finished with what appeared to be a metal …

The final running order and day splits have finally been announced for this years SOS festival, held in Manchester. All the details can be found here www.mwaweb.com/sos_2016_info. FRIDAY (Dean Hocking Stage) Absolva 10.20pm (80 mins) Babylon Fire 9.20pm (40 mins) Pythia 8.20pm (40 mins) Strain 7.20pm (40 mins) Beyond Salvation 6.20pm …

Lynne, this will be the 9th SOS festival, can you give us the reason why you started it; was it purely to showcase Rocksector signed bands. The festival was started to showcase local , Rocksector and up and coming bands. Manchester at that time didn’t have its own summer festival and …

SOS Festival has announced five more bands for their next event which takes place in Radcliffe, North Manchester on 15-17th July 2016…. CRIMES OF PASSION CONTROL THE STORM GANG DENDERA DIGGETH   To read more about these bands please visit the online version of this announcement here http://www.mwaweb.com/sos_announcement_9sep2015.html These bands join …

Saturday dawned bright and sunny and off I went for the second day. Special mention as well at this point to the sponsors of the acoustic stage all weekend, Metal Nation Radio. Not cos they were really nice guys who worked damn hard all weekend to broadcast live from the event …

What do we know about SOS Festival then? Sponsored by Rocksector records and organised by them and Chris Appleton (founder member of Fury UK and now playing with Absolva amongst other things) who also compered it, it’s now in its 8th year and showcases some of the label’s talent, along …

The second full length album from Birmingham based Captain Horizon sees them stretching their musical boundaries even more. Released on May 11th 2015 via Rocksector Records and a well attended album launch/gig in Birmingham on May 22nd shows the leaps and bounds they are making since they were formed by …

SOS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 6 MORE BANDS…. SKARLETT RIOT, THE RAVEN AGE, 13 STARS, HEARTBREAK REMEDY, LIZ OWEN & CHARLOTTE HACKETT Formed in 2010 SKARLETT RIOT have quickly earned an enviable reputation on the UK live circuit whilst their debut release has earned glorious praise from Powerplay, Kerrang, Fireworks, Big Cheese, …

Savage Messiah’s front man David Silver is taking part in this years Heavy Metal Truant Bike ride in aid of the Nordoff Robbins Charity! The bike ride idea started in 2012, where manager of IRON MAIDEN, RON SMALLWOOD, and Metal Hammer Editor-in-Chief ALEXANDER MILAS started the idea of influential people …

Dutch power metallers LORD VOLTURE to be confirmed for the 17th edition of Rock In Schroth Festival, which takes place in Gondsroth, Germany, on 5/6 September 2014. Other bands confirmed include WIZARD, ODIUM, DIMELESS and ACID DEATH, headliners to be announced soon. LORD VOLTURE is a heavy metal band hailing …