Mad About Rock

  Following the festival's barnburner first announcement, and the sell-out success of its 2024 edition, Nottingham's Mangata Festival has announced its second wave of bands for the 2025 edition of the festival. This includes the last of the five headliners, alongside 16 other great acts, including the long-awaited Liquid Library stage line-up. Joining our Rescue Rooms headliners The Raven Age are Nottingham natives The Five Hundred, along with black metal titans The Infernal Sea On The Red Room stage we have, returning this year off the back of their 2024 performance, Godeth & extreme Nottingham metallers, Outergods. Hitting up the Ghost stage are Swarm6ix, Waterlines, She Must Burn & Defences. Joining the Tap n Tumbler stage we have Paradise Sins, Moon Reaper, Lavire & Overthrone. Finally, joining the Liquid Library stage are headliners Ante-Inferno, alongside Abduction, Damn Craters, Devastator & Wolven Crown. Taking place across five stages and three venues, ...

DESERT STORM ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM 'SENTINELS' TO BE RELEASED MARCH 16TH ON APF RECORDS! 2018 marks the return of Oxford-based sludge-metal titans Desert Storm as they prepare to follow the release of 2014’s critically-acclaimed ‘Omniscient’ album with their new opus ‘Sentinels’, confirmed for release this coming March 16th via APF Records. Recorded with engineer Jamie Dodd (Orange Goblin) at Flesh & Bone Studio's, Hackney and tracked by Steve 'Geezer' Watkins at Woodworm studios (which has also been used by legendary Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi), ‘Sentinels’ is a colossal sounding record, it’s ten tracks punching the listener with an oppressive towering monolithic sound that batters, but never dulls the senses. “This album is a natural progression from our previous releases,” explains guitarist Ryan Cole. “It has the Desert Storm sound, but has moved in a much harder, darker and heavier direction.” Today we get to hear the first rumblings from ‘Se...