Mad About Rock

  Unstoppable UK hard rockers, THE RATTLEBACKS, just keep on rising. The fast-emerging rock ‘n’ rollers have now dropped their killer new single and video, 'Please Me'. The track is lifted from the band’s greatly anticipated debut album, which is set to land later this year. Check out the video, here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4y8ARvF9WU Listen in at - https://open.spotify.com/artist/02oqr4ZOKETIRvSrPPQgIp THE RATTLEBACKS’ climb over the past twelve months has certainly been a marked one. Coming at you from Brighton, England and officially hatched in 2021, the rampant five-piece are a fireball of talent, intrigue and genuine excitement. Featuring the ball busting rhythm section of Seth Markes (drums) and Jack ‘The Hell’ Hollamby (bass), Coxy (rhythm guitar) and Max Horn (lead guitar) serving the riffs, and the towering vocals of Josh Clarke, THE RATTLEBACKS cannot and will not be halted. To date, the unbridled quintet have released their debut EP, Kink, which bagged c...

  Stoner/Doom Rock group BlackStorm have premiered a new lyric video for their latest track 'Heavy Energy' ahead of a special guest slot to Pitchshifter's sold-out Bristol show this July. Watch 'Heavy Energy' (lyric video): https://youtu.be/9-JJCgj57BM Hailing from Brighton UK, Blackstorm's line-up features members of Earthtone9, The Blueprint, Twin Zero, Fall of Efrafa, GNOD and King Beef. Latest single 'Heavy Energy' serves as an ethereal appetiser ahead of Blackstorm's special guest slot to Pitchshifter's sold out Bristol show, at The Exchange, on the 7th of July. Vocalist Karl Middleton (Earthtone9) says, "It’s an honour to share the stage with the Clayden brothers once again. Our friendship runs deep, over 25 years. This show is going to be wild. The Exchange is a killer 300 capacity venue, and it’s gonna be a hot, sweaty, high energy show." The epic follow up to 2022's comeback single 'Iron Harvest', 'Heavy Energ...

  Kreator is currently touring with Lamb Of God as support, but they managed to slot in two UK headline shows, one in Leeds and the other in Brighton on the 11th of March, which I was fortunate to attend. To make the occasion even more unique, this was the first time the German Thrash veterans have played in Brighton, and to top it off, they played a special deep cuts set list, especially for these two shows. The CHALK venue is a small intimate venue; you wouldn’t expect a band of their calibre to play here, which added to the rare thrash metal spectacle. They kicked off with the mighty title track of their latest album ‘Hate Über Alles’ which was released last year, and went on to deliver a colossal set that spanned their career, firing off hit after hit with ‘Hail To The Hordes’, the momentous ‘Satan Is Real’ both taken from their revered fourteenth album, 2017s’ Gods Of Violence, followed by the blazing ‘Hordes Of Chaos’. They also played several tracks from their pivotal 1989 r...

  UK based punk band Honeybadger kick off 2023 with new single ‘Cold Wind’ which was released on 28th January. After a successful 2022, the high energy trio are back with their latest single which entails energetic guitar riffs and powerful vocals. ‘Cold Wind’ is about how things always catch up to you if you tell too many lies. “Spiky three piece gutter psychedelia band” Honeybadger are Brighton based, formed in 2014 by brothers Joe and Eddy, and school friend Luca. The young band describe their music as “rock music with heavy punk and grunge influence” and have taken influences from The White Stripes, Ty Segall, Pretty Vicious and Estrons. They have performed at a number of live venues over the UK including features on BBC Introducing, BBC Live Lounge and Wyatt Wendel's 'The New Rock Show' on Planet Rock. The track has been expressed by Melita Dennit as "Another brilliant track and a great listener response.” “I highly, highly recommend you keep your eyes and ears on...

Brighton five piece Indie-Punk rockers Creature Creature had originally announced their debut album Two Finger Tantrum back in February of this year but due to the on going global pandemic the Brighton band had to push the album back. Creature Creature are now set to release Two Finger Tantrum on the tenth of July through their own label Creature Eats Records with the preorders going live from Friday the fifteenth of May. To celebrate the new release date of Two Finger Tantrum they have released the very adpt album artwork along with new single Broken Windows. "This is the oldest song on the album and the first real signs that things were changing from our folk-punk roots when we began writing it. Originally written as an ode to the struggles of the working man, almost eerie comparisons can also be made to the state of the world in 2020” says Creature Creature frontman Scully. Check out the new song 'Broken Windows' below: Creature Creature have teamed up...

Mammothfest 2018 kicks off this Friday the 5th October with headliners Bleed From Within, so with the festival so close now is time to start planning your schedules! Saturday the 6th October sees Polish death metallers Decapitated playing a not to missed UK exclusive headliner set. Find out all the bands performing and times below in this handy clashfinder: https://clashfinder.com/s/mammothfest2018 The clashfinder doesn't contain the Sunday battle of the bands running order but this was revealed in a live-streamed video on the 30/9/18 on Mammothfest's Facebook page with the director Steve Dickson, pulling out the names at random to form the schedule for Sunday. The result was: 19:00 - 19:30 NORTHAMPTON - Prognosis 18:15 - 18:45 CHESTER - In Depths 17:30 - 18:00 BRIGHTON - Tales of Autumn 16:45 - 17:15 CORK Ireland - GOD ALONE 16:00 - 16:30 CHESTER - Callus 15:15 - 15:45 CHELTENHAM - Heriot 14:30 - 15:00 WOLVERHAMPTON - Recall the remains 13:45 - 14:15 LONDON - Jackknif...

    So back in 2010 Brighton in the South East of England saw the arrival of a much needed and appreciated new metal festival which featured bands such as Entombed, Sylosis, Orange Goblin, Malefice and more! The festival was a hit but it failed to return the year after, and the next year and so on..but now it is making a mighty return! The man behind Mammothfest, organiser/promoter, Steve Dickson discusses his journey as a promoter including the difficulties he faced, his plans to rebuild and the future of the festival!... So reflecting back on Mammothfest 2010, how do you think it went both personally as a promoter and from a festival attendees point of view? Ah, haha straight in with the silver bullet! To be honest this is THE question I have asked myself most. As a promoter and a business man I lost some money so you could say it did not go as well as I would have liked. However, most festivals are expected to lose money in the first year and considering I wen...

MammothFest Brighton, UK have just announced today the next round of bands to join the existing line-up, Headliners, Savage Messiah and Marty Defiled with main support from Meta-Stasis and Ingested. The new wave of 12 acts to be added are: Collapse, Mask of Judas, Abhorrent Decimation, Cambion, Nexilva, Divine Chaos, Foetal Juice, Collisions, No Sin Escapes His Gaze, Mordecai, Aeolist and Premature Birth and with at least 6 more bands still to be announced! The early bird tickets at the price of £15 has been extended and will now end on the 26th May following latest announcement so I suggest you get them quickly! http://vanitasdirect.com/556-mammothfest  and http://mammothfest.bigcartel.com/ MammothFest are currently running a cool competition to win tickets to the festival supporting alternative bars and venues by running a bar competition at a number of venues to win a weekend ticket! By drinking at a participating bar and just say ‘Mammothfest’ to get your name in a...