Dutch metal band The Charm The Fury have announced that the band will cease to exist for the time being. The band states: “Unfortunately, we have collectively decided that, for the time being, The Charm The Fury has come to an end. Sadly, the band could not be sustained in …
Read More »Download 2017 – Sunday
Brutai had the job of opening the Dogtooth stage today. Playing Download for the first time, they showed no sign of nerves and put in an excellent performance to get the day off to a great start. They are always good live, but they’ve excelled themselves here at Download. It …
Read More »Caroline Westendorp, The Charm The Fury interview, 24th March 2017
I spoke to The Charm The Fury’s singer, Caroline Westendorp backstage just before their album launch show kicked off at Sugar Factory in Amsterdam. You recently signed to Nuclear Blast for the new album. Why choose them? Because they offered us a deal. Nuclear Blast is such a household name …
Read More »The Charm The Fury – Sugar Factory, Amsterdam – 20th March 2017
Tonight is the album launch for The Charm The Fury’s new album, The sick, dumb and happy. The venue is the Sugar Factory just opposite Melkweg in the band’s home city of Amsterdam, and a queue of fans had formed well before doors opened. By the time the show got …
Read More »The Charm The Fury – The sick, Dumb & Happy
The Charm The Fury are a Dutch metal band fronted by singer Caroline Westendorp. One or two of you may now be thinking – Dutch band with female vocals – they’re bound to be symphonic metal, and to be fair the Netherlands have produced a fair few bands that fit …
Read More »Download Festival gives us a batch of new bands!
It seems like forever since Download Festival last made an announcement of bands, but good things come to those who wait and the bigwigs have officially made their first announcement of 2017 – and what an announcement! 48 new bands have been added to the bill including several big names …
Read More »The Charm The Fury sign with Nuclear Blast
Amsterdam based metalband THE CHARM THE FURY have signed a record deal with the world’s biggest heavy metal label Nuclear Blast. As the follow-up to their debut album, A Shade Of My Former Self, the band will release a new album in March 2017 through the established rock and metal independent. Be sure …
Read More »Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2016 – Friday 12/8/16.
Due to holiday shifts being changed, I had to work the Thursday night which meant catching the first train I could get to Tamworth, early hotel check in, then mad dash to the Bloodstock Open Air Festival arena to catch Witch Tripper, first band of the day on the New …
Read More »BLOODSTOCK ADDS VALLENFYRE AND MORE…
Less than four months to go and BLOODSTOCK HQ is a hive of activity! With the ‘Metal 2 The Masses’ heats well under way and finals scheduled to kick off in May, the booking team are racking up more and more bands for the UK’s best metal weekender this August! …
Read More »Download Festival 2014 – Sunday 15th June 2014
And so, the final day of Download 2014. And this time it’s overcast. The rain has not been hard but it’s definitely a lot cloudier than before – a welcome relief for many of the punters. Elliott and Ant give their opinions on this final day. For me the day …
Read More »Another 23 bands added to Download Festival
.@DownloadFest adds more bands! Download Festival confirmed another 23 bands to their already bulging bill tonight a mere two weeks after their last announcement – and there are some very impressive names on the lineup. Killswitch Engage will be making their only European festival appearance of 2014 at the festival, with New …
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