Bloodstock: Running Order Announced

Bloodstock Open Air are pleased to announce the line up for their Unsigned and Lava stages, as well as an up to date running order for the main stage bands. Currently the acts are scheduled to perform as follows:
Thursday 14th August - Lava Stage:
4 DJs of the Apocalypse plus special guest DJs **
Bungle Junior […]

Shinedown: Supporting Disturbed On UK Tour

Shinedown are set to support Disturbed on their upcoming October UK Tour by way of introduction to this side of the Atlantic. The band will also release album ‘The Sound Of Madness’, produced by multiple Grammy Award-winner Rob Cavallo, in the UK early next year. The record debuted at Number 8 on the Billboard 200 […]

Interview: Knights Of The Abyss

After drummer Andy Rysdam parted company with everyone’s favourite pick-’em-up then knock-’em-down act, Job For A Cowboy, he helped form a rival deathcore band, Knights Of The Abyss, right on their doorstep. This year, despite a terrible sequence of bad luck, the band have built upon the early promise they’ve showed by releasing a genre-crossing […]

Cradle Of Filth: ‘Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder’ Out Oct 27th

Cradle Of Filth are gearing up to release their “darkest, most dastardly album of all”, titled ‘Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder’ on October 27th. The album, which will have a special edition with an extra disc and bonus material, arrives just in time for Halloween, a day to fit Cradle of Filth’s blackened, ghostly aesthetic. […]

Album Review: Misery Signals

[Album: Controller]
[Label: Ferret Music]

Misery Signals once took the extraordinary decision to find a new vocalist by putting an instrumental song up on their MySpace and invite folk to record their own vocals over the top and mail them in. They ended up selecting Karl Schubach from the many that responded and have, amazingly, found new […]

Kiuas: Announce UK Shows + “Kiuas War Anthems” Collection

Kiuas, the Finnish five-piece who have previously appeared at the Bloodstock Festival and who guested with Children Of Bodom at the London Astoria earlier this year, have been confirmed to appear on the Firewind UK Tour in September.
The full list of dates is as follows:-
SEPTEMBER
18th – Nottingham, Rock City
19th – Glasgow, Cathouse
20th – Leeds, Rios
21st […]

EP Review: The Human Targets

[EP: The Human Targets]
[Label: Back In The Day Records]

Coming with absolutely no information about the band, except for its three members (Jon, Dave and the slightly more exotically named Fraser) it took some brief research to discover that The Human Targets hail from Nottinghamshire, not exactly a current hotbed of exciting talent. So I expected […]

Trivium: Launch New Album ‘Shogun’ With Free MP3 On 31st July

With nearly one million album sales under their belt, Trivium

Single Review: Natty

[Single: July]
[Label: Atlantic]

‘July’ is the second single from modern reggae-soul singer-songwriter Natty who, since appearing on a summer tour with Hard-Fi and Kate Nash and on “Late With Jools Holland” prior to the release of his debut single, ‘Cold Town’, has started to stir somewhat of a fuss about his new way of doing things […]

The Levellers: ‘Letters From The Underground’ UK Tour Dates Announced

Brighton based folk-punk band, the Levellers, are set to release ‘Letters from the Underground’ - their “most politically resonant album in a decade” – on Monday 11th August and have just announced the dates for their UK tour.

You can watch Mark and Jeremy chat about the new album below

UK Dates
DECEMBER
3 TRURO Hall for Cornwall
4 EXETER […]