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Chat Pile @ The Dome, London, 14th August 2023 – Photo by Nessie Spencer
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Through The Lens: Chat Pile / Petbrick / Dawn Ray’d @ The Dome, London, 14th August 2023

13th September 202313th September 2023 Nessie Spencer Black Metal, Chat Pile, Dawn Ray'd, Effigy Presents, Electronic, London, Noise-Rock, Petbrick, Through The Lens

When Chat Pile announced their dates for a UK tour this August, everybody and their mothers went to grab a

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Mono @ Portals Festival 2023 – Photo by Lee Beamish
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Portals Festival 2023 – Sunday

4th July 20234th July 2023 Lee Beamish EartH Hackney, EF, GGGOLDDD, Jambinai, Jo Quail, London, Maybeshewill, Mono, Portals Festival, Pupil Slicer, Shy Low, Svalbard, VLMV

Entering day two of Portals Festival 2023, I knew my day was going to be a hectic one. Already buzzing

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Bossk @ Portals Festival 2023 – Photo by Lee Beamish
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Portals Festival 2023 – Saturday

3rd July 20233rd July 2023 Lee Beamish A. A. Williams, And So I Watch You From Afar, Bo Ningen, Bossk, EartH Hackney, Human Pyramids, Hundred Year Old Man, London, Ogives Big Band, Portals Festival, The Broken Islands

Having started in 2015 as a one-day event, Portals Festival was created, with the purpose of bringing some of the

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Nebula @ Desertfest London 2023 – Photo by Nessie Spencer
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Desertfest London 2023 – Sunday

12th June 202312th June 2023 Ian M BIG|BRAVE, Black Groove, Blood Ceremony, Boris, Desertfest, Jo Quail, King Buffalo, London, Mars Red Sky, Nebula, Thunder Horse

This review of Day 3 of Desertfest is brought to you by the letter B. It starts in the Black

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Slomatics @ Desertfest London 2023 – Photo by Nessie Spencer
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Desertfest London 2023 – Saturday

8th June 20238th June 2023 Ian M Church Of The Cosmic Skull, Corrosion Of Conformity, Crowbar, Desertfest, Dozer, London, Lowen, Slomatics, Weedeater, Wren

A lunchtime start for Desertfest on Saturday saw the hordes descend upon Camden again. No coronation nonsense here, just another

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Year Of No Light @ Desertfest London 2023 – Photo by Nessie Spencer
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Desertfest London 2023 – Friday

7th June 20237th June 2023 Ian M Church Of Misery, Dawn Ray'd, Desertfest, Earth Moves, Kurokuma, London, Sum Of R, Terror Cosmico, Vinnum Sabbathi, Wyatt E, Year Of No Light

So here we are, the annual metal pilgrimage to Camden for Desertfest, over ten years now since the first fest

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Wormrot @ New Cross Inn, London 1st April 2023 - Photo by Nessie Spencer
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Wormrot / Charred Atlas / Wasted Death / Vacuous @ New Cross Inn, London 1st April 2023

17th April 202317th April 2023 Nessie Spencer Charred Atlas, Death Metal, Grindcore, Hardcore, London, New Cross Inn, Thrash Metal, Vacuous, Wasted Death, Wormrot

Last year, the Singaporean band Wormrot released what was considered to be one of the best albums of the year,

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Obituary @ Electric Ballroom, London, 23rd February 2023 – Photo by Nessie Spencer
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Obituary / Conjurer / Celestial Sanctuary @ Electric Ballroom, London, 23rd February 2023

14th March 202317th April 2023 Nessie Spencer Celestial Sanctuary, Conjurer, Death Metal, Electric Ballroom, London, Obituary

When I was a teenage dirtbag back in the naughties, I had three passions in life: reading metal magazines, going

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Cave In @ Heaven, London, 24th October 2022 - Photo by Gemma Shaw
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Through The Lens: Cave In @ Heaven, London, 24th October 2022

27th October 202226th December 2022 Gemma Shaw Cave In, Heaven, London

Gemma Shaw of Gloomy Lights Photography headed up to Heaven in old London town on Monday to shoot the rejuvenated

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Portals Festival 2021 - Photo by Lee Beamish
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Review: Portals Festival 2021

21st September 202128th October 2021 Lee Beamish Bossk, CLT DRP, Garganjua, Human Pyramids, Jo Quail, London, Midas Fall, Mountain Caller, Nervus, OHHMS, Outcries, Pijn, Portals Festival, The Hyena Kill

Around a year and a half ago I was made aware of a small alternative festival, based in London, which

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Daughters / Jeromes Dream @ Islington Assembly Hall, London 31/10/2019
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Daughters / Jeromes Dream @ Islington Assembly Hall, London 31/10/2019

25th November 201911th December 2019 Josuph Price Daughters, Islington Assembly Hall, Jeromes Dream, London

This is What You Want…This Is What You Get. For me, and no doubt plenty of others, Daughters’ You Won’t

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Video Premiere: Modern Technology ‘Salvation’ – New Album ‘Conditions Of Worth’ Drops 13th Oct
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Video Premiere: Modern Technology ‘Salvation’ – New Album ‘Conditions Of Worth’ Drops 13th Oct

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