Anterior’s drummer, Ross Andrews has decided to call it a day. Anterior released this statement via myspace earlier today:
 Attention All drummers,
Ross has decided to pursue a new career and wishes to leave the band as soon as we have a replacement. So, we need a new drummer as soon as possible. We are preferably looking […]

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 […]

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 […]

This show was the only one billed for Italy as part of the Summoning Thunder tour
which has been butchering its way around Europe for the last 10 days. With a bill
comprised of 4 bands covering very diverse genres it was an eager if slightly small number who turned out for the occasion.
Blistering their way into […]

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 boys in Anterior have kindly offered to keep a diary during their rampage across Europe with Himsa. Part 1, written by vocalist Luke Davies is up online now.

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. […]

Swedish metallers SOILWORK, who recently completed the Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage U.S. tour in support of their new album Sworn To A Great Divide, have decided to part ways with guitarist Ola Frenning.

It was felt that Ola resisted the demands of the road and found it difficult to come to terms with the amount of touring […]

ANTERIOR, now with new bassist James Britton and former Mendeed man Steve Nixon on guitar will join Dying Fetus for a run of UK dates in June.
June 2008
23rd    LONDON – Underworld
24th    PLYMOUTH – White Rabbit
25th    GLASGOW – Ivory Blacks
26th    MANCHESTER – Music Box
27th    PETERBOROUGH – The Park
ANTERIOR will also headline the Avalanche Festival in […]

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 […]