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By Sian Connolly It was a Thursday evening in Manchester and the venue we are in tonight is the amazing o2 Ritz, welcoming not one, not two, but four incredible metal bands to get the party started! Kicking off the night with the likes of “Black Forest” and “Liquid Mourning”, German death metal band, Nailed …

By the time I’d battled across the Pennines, in the now all too familiar tailbacks and gridlocks of the M62 and Manchester City Centre, I arrived at the Ritz just as the closing chords of the mighty Nailed To Obscurity were ringing out. I was absolutely gutted as I had been really keen to catch …

Words: Letty Sharp // Photos: Ian Mc Donnell Finnish metal band Amorphis and Swiss metal band Eluveitie came to Dublin for a night of metal. The 4-band bill completed by German metal heads Nailed to Obscurity and veteran melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity hailing from Sweden. The Academy was full to the gills of …

As I arrived at the venue at what I thought was 30 minutes late for the 18.00 door time, I wasgreeted by security informing the long snaking queue that the bands had been delayed arriving intoManchester and were all still setting up inside the venue so the doors would be opening late, butjust how late, …

Four Metal bands took over the main room for The Academy Dublin for the Dark Tranquillity / Ensiferum double headlining tour, some of them its their first time on Irish shores. Its raining in Dublin and its early doors tonight, people are queuing with umbrellas up, eagerly awaiting this four band extravaganza. As people are …