The third instalment comes to you from guitarist Leon Kemp and bassist James Britton…
2nd March - Day 4 

9.00am 
We finally arrive at Hamburg, me and Frank are up and about after a crazy night of beer and shenanigans. Feeling a little rough but we powered on in search of some food. We end […]

SILURIA are one of the few current UK bands that are embracing the rising interest in the combination of folk music and metal. Hailing from Wales, there is no shortage of musical history or cultural heritage to draw from. Could Siluria be the UK’s answer to the current scene making waves in Finland and Scandinavia? […]

The second instalment of the Anterior Tour is brought to you by former Mendeed guitarist, Steve Nixon…
29th Feb - Day 2
11.00 pm - Anterior are back stage at Roxy and we’ve drank just about all the beers in the fridge, the other bands are looking at us as if to say “what […]

Photograph: © Owain Richards
It’s the day of the first show on the UK DARK TRANQUILLITY tour and we’re sat in the subterranean venue of the Cardiff Barfly while hundreds, if not thousands, of red jerseyed rugby fans, inebriated, cheer on their team above ground. In a little green room, we take time out to chat […]

The first part of our exclusive Anterior tour diary is written by front-man Luke Davies…
28th Feb – Day 1
European Himsa tour starts tomorrow! That sounds exciting, right up until I start the car to begin a head on full day of driving, to pick up our tour bus with driver Glyn. […]

Photograph: © Owain Richards
On a mild afternoon in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, we climbed aboard a big Swedish tourbus parked almost right outside Cardiff’s illustrious castle in the centre of the city to have a chat with Finnish metal band Omnium Gatherum. Meanwhile, Dark Tranquillity’s Mikael Stanne slept soundly in a bunk next door.
We […]

BLINDED COLONY
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Genre: Melodic Death
Country: Sweden
BLINDED COLONY is the representation of the next breed of aggressive metal. With adrenaline-laced guitar rhythms, atmospheric synthesizers, and ripping vocals, Blinded Colony creates a distinguished harmonic aggression that hits you harder than a size 16 combat boot-to-the-face.
 

HOLLOWTONE
myspace.com/hollowtone
Genre: Gothic Rock
Country: Belgium
Belgian death metallers HOLLOWTONE take a leap into the mid-1990s with […]

Photograph © Owain Richards
MALEFICE have been hard at work, touring and promoting their album constantly and tirelessly. Having played here in Cardiff not so long ago on the UK DevilDriver tour alongside God Forbid and with their album ‘Entities’ out now, the band have gained critical acclaim from press and fans alike.
Halfway through a […]

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UK Gothic-Metal band Pro-Jekt formed in 2000 at a time when, due to the dominance of electronic music, Goths and guitars were not mixing very well. However they have since released two critically acclaimed albums (Encryption, and Defiance) as well as a live DVD, built up a large European following, and have performed at some of the biggest Gothic and Metal festivals in both the UK and Abroad.