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News: Damnation Festival 2024 Announce UK Black Metal Legends Cradle Of Filth As Their Headliner Along With A Few Other Delights

UK Black Metal legends Cradle Of Filth will headline this year’s Damnation with an exclusive “old school ritual performance”. On the 30th anniversary of the band’s debut, ‘The Principle Of…

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News: Bloodstock’s 19-Band Crush For Valentine’s Day

The already monstrous Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2024 have treated us to another colossal announcement to tempt us to their hallowed grounds in August. A massive 19 more crushing bands…

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News: Damnation Festival Has Announced The First Batch Of Bands For Their 2024 Edition Including Full Album Sets, UK Debuts And Exclusive UK Shows

Damnation Festival have announced their first batch of bands for their 2024 edition including full album sets, uk debuts and exclusive uk shows US Metalcore legends BLEEDING THROUGH and Power…

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News: A Weekend Of Black Metal Is Coming To The North Yorkshire Coast In 2024 Courtesy Of Fortress Festival

“The First of June, 2024… Under the watchful gaze of the carrion crows that beset the castle’s crumbling battlements…the hordes of darkness will stir. The mournful bells of the woebegone…

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Live Review: Bury Tomorrow / We Came As Romans / Kingdom Of Giants – The Stylus, Leeds 18.01.2024

Energy personification was the order of the day for this Metalcore billing in Leeds, and with it being completely sold out well in advance it promised to be an evening…

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News: Incineration Fest 2024 Adds Even More Names To Its 10 Year Anniversary Edition

Incineration Fest have announced more names to their brutal lineup of Extreme Metal in order to help celebrate their 10 year anniversary. Blackened Death Metal kings Belphegor will undoubtedly destroy…

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News: Incineration Festival 2024 Adds Even More Names To Their Extreme Event

Incineration Festival have bolstered their already mouth-watering lineup of Extreme Metal with a new influx of legends, Black Metal royalty and debuts to deliver an impressive lineup which still has…

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Live Review: Decapitated / Obscura / Inferi / The Materia – Club Academy, Manchester 15.12.2023

What better way to spend some time in our beloved intimate basement surroundings of the Manchester Club Academy than with an evening of brutal Death Metal, and with my head,…

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Live Review: Belphegor / God Dethroned / Atrocity / Monastery – The Corporation, Sheffield 12.12.2023

It was time to head south on this wintery Tuesday evening for what was promising to be an evening of brutal extreme metal courtesy of a four-band bill at The…

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News: Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2024 New Announcement

Bloodstock has decided to shower us with all manner of early Christmas presents by way of their latest announcement, and there really are some true goliaths of their respective genres…

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