When you’re done with the huge crowds and ridiculously high food and beverage prices at major metal festivals, then the Into The Grave fest may be a good alternative. It’s annually held in the picturesque inner city of Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. With a ticket price...

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Louisiana’s Thou are quite frankly, unstoppable. The sludge/drone/doom quintet have released an incomprehensible amount of material in their short time together as a group – three full lengths, and around twenty EP’s, splits and compilations since their inception in 2005. The most recent release is...

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Marta Gabriel is a true metal mistress. Mock-goth corseting and affected operatics are not for her; she walks proudly in the footsteps of Doro and is about skulls, screams and skin tight black leather. She is just one reason to worship Crystal Viper. Alongside a...

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Co-authored by Sabrina Ramdoyal and Phill ‘Krav’ Krawiec. As if the Thursday and Friday line-up  at Hammerfest IV wasn’t enough to finish us off, they only went and filled Saturday up with monster bands just to make sure we all go home in a zombie-like...

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Team TINAS’ newest recruit Greg Latham recently got the chance to put a few questions to Savage Messiah axeman Joff Bailey. They talked about the new Savage Messiah album “Plague Of Conscience” and it’s limited time free download, influences, their songwriting approach, dream festival line-ups,...

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BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR has added another two bands to it’s 2011 line up. NWOBHM pioneers HELL return to the world of metal, while DRIPBACK bring their noisy mayhem to the arena

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