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Vrona Announce New Songs With Addition Of Vocalist Within a year of their inception, Vrona had already performed at Bloodstock and Mammothfest, and shared stages with the likes of Dorje, Cambion, The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing and more. Their first EP 'A Lapse In Time' released in early 2016 gained them critical acclaim with their instrumental offerings being compared to a vocal-less mix of Karnivool, TesseracT and Tool. 2017 sees a marked change in the band as they release two new tracks on October 25th and unveil a new twist to their ever evolving sound - the introduction of vocalist Jamie Ball. The two track release entitled 'Impermanence' still showcases Vrona's brand of progressive ambient metal. However, the addition of vocals, and the acceptance of more outside influences into their melting pot shows that the band are not afraid to change things up. To celebrate this new direction the band head out on tour in October/Novembe...

Vehement sophomore album 'Ashes'; Unveiled at Mammothfest 2017 Brighton based extreme metal quartet Vehement release their sophomore album 'Ashes' on October 6th via Infernum Records, the same day that Vehement will open Mammothfest, sharing the stage with black metal icons, Rotting Christ and Tsjuder. Vehement have been climbing upwards through the ranks of the metal scene in the United Kingdom for several years now, and since the release of their debut album 'Collapse' in 2013, the band have gone on to play notable events such as Bloodstock Open Air and Incineration Fest. Recently announced as the second signing to Infernum Records (home to fellow Brightonians King Leviathan) they are poised to unleash their second full-length offering upon the world. Guitarist Xysor explains: " ...as soon as ‘Collapse' was released we were straight into the writing process for ‘Ashes'. We began recording over a year ago, but after parting ways with bassist ...

Mammothfest UK: Program Info & Stage Times Announced With just less than three weeks to go until Mammothfest descends onto Brighton, they have just unleashed the festival magazine, which features band interviews (including headliners Rotting Christ and more), festival information and more! The printed version will also be available for free to all paying customers in print at Mammothfest 2017 upon entry. Get yourself ready and prepared for the carnage that is about to unfold ahead of the festival by having a read of the magazine here: http://mammothfest.uk/Mammoth-Mag2017.pdf You can now plan your festival weekend with the stage times which have been released . See below! Check out the official weekend promo trailer below to get a taste of what to expect! Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3RoK6nIvA&feature=youtu.be&fref=gc To find out more on Mammothfest and get tickets: https://mammothfest.uk/ https...

MAMMOTHFEST Release Official Festival Trailers & Reveal Aims For 2019 Plenty who have attented Mammothfest before will know the kind of carnage that unfolds on each day at the festival. For those who have never been before, you can now get a taste of what to expect across the weekend as Mammothfest has unveiled footage from previous events. There are four videos to watch, from the "weekend" video with a preview of everything you can experience at Mammothfest over the three days, to the separate videos of daily themed footage. This includes the Friday, which is the "Black Metal Day", headlined by Rotting Christ . The Saturday, headlined by Fleshgod Apocalypse , a day packed with a variety of extreme styles in metal. Finally, the Sunday "Doom Metal Day", headlined by Amenra . All headliners are exclusive to Mammothfest in 2017! This is the perfect way to either relive your previous experiences of the festival or get your first glimpse of t...

Bleed Again Prepare To Conquer Following Latest Annoucements UK Metal five-piece Bleed Again are well known on the South Coast metal scene and continue to build their ever impressive reputation, especially through their energetic mental live performances. Now they have just signed a worldwide deal with Sliptrick Records proving they on our the radar. Along with this announcement they have unleashed their blistering new video which was filmed at this Mammothfest 2016 UK in Brighton for ‘Through My Eyes’ . I was lucky enough to be there during filming and it was one of the best crowd reactions of the whole festival and they really stood out. They say things come in three and that is the case here, as they also will be releasing their debut album ‘Momentum’ through Sliptrick Records on May 1st, 2017. Widely recognised for their live sets, they have already graced the stage with bands such as Soil , Darkest Hour and Devil Sold His Soul as well as landing various festival sl...

Merry Metal Christmas from Mammothfest Brighton! Come and celebrate on the 16th December! Following the success of this year’s Mammothfest in October it has since been nominated for three festival awards, including the UK Festival Awards in two categories, Best Metropolitan and Best Small Festival 2016 as well as the TBFM Best Independent Festival 2016 . The winners are yet to be announced so watch this space! It’s no surprise the festival has got people’s attention, as this year marked the biggest event yet, with higher capacity venues and well known bands, Textures, Venom Inc and Conan headlining, amongst the many other underground and rising stars of rock and metal that took to the stage across popular Brighton venues over one mighty weekend, and for its efforts it was almost an complete sell out! Now Mammothfest is inviting you to their special Christmas party which will be a hell of a show! So come and celebrate and enjoy the mental line-up! The event itself ...

So earlier this week, Brighton based metal festival, Mammothfest announced their final full line-up. See the mighty poster above! It includes a special exclusive reunion show from metalcore thrashers, Here There Be Monsters who Join the stampede to get to Brighton for Mammothfest which takes place 30 September - 2 May 2016! Here is the complete festival line up and venue details: FRIDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER THE HAUNT £20.00 Textures | Heart Of A Coward | Krysthla | The Five Hundred FRIDAY 30TH SEPETMBER THE GREEN DOOR STORE £10.00 EASTERN FRONT | Necro Ritual | The Infernal Sea | Premature Birth | Vehement SATURDAY 1ST OCTOBER CONCORDE 2 £25.00 Venom Inc | Entrails | Liquid Graveyard | One Machine - official | Sworn Amongst | DIVINE CHAOS | King Leviathan | HeLL PuPPeTs | MORTISHEAD SUNDAY 2ND OCTOBER THE GREEN DOOR STORE £20.00 Conan | Black Moth | Serpent Venom | Bast | Opium Lord | Conjurer | King Goat | BongCauldron | PIST | Garganjua | Boss...

King Leviathan are a four piece thrash band from Brighton obsessed with the occult, and having only been together just over a year, they are quickly building their campaign of followers and stamping their mark into Brighton’s ever growing music scene! With their memorable brutal live shows, including performing at Brighton’s very own metal festival, Mammothfest, and the impressive accolade of being main support for Darkest Hour! This young band in both age and formation have accomplished a lot already, and they return with their follow up to their debut with new EP, ‘The Shrine’ ready to conquer.. First song, ‘Wormwood’ gets off to a blistering start with powerful striking vocals and insane guitar work. This embraces modern and classic thrash, in an melodic manner which will wiggle and rive in your mind and introduces their style and context for the EP wonderfully... ‘Born Of The Blackest Hearts’ boasts demanding vocals and colossal instrumentation, this is one dark beastly off...

Mammothfest is back: Bigger, Darker and Louder than ever!! It will have a massive impact! After two successful MammothFest event's and the comeback of festival in 2014 after a four year break, MammothFest show they mean serious business and unlike most festivals, they don't keep you waiting long, as they have generously and epically decided to release not just the headline bands for the three day event, but the whole bloody line-up!! Although in keeping with the festive spirit they did decide to do a 12 day of Christmas annoucement, giving a band a day, so some bands will already be known. The line-up spans from bands from all round the world to local champions and returning crowd pleasers from previous MammothFest's, which includes Meta-Stasis, Malefice, Core Of iO, Abhorrent Decimation and Stone Circle (who can proudly say they have been on every MammothFest bill so far!) This three day event is set to be the biggest and meanest MammothFest yet! Where attendees w...

Intelligible progressive metallers from Brighton release their sophomore self-titled album through Terrorizer magazine, which can be picked up for free with the latest issue, as well as being available through the usual music outlets, such as Spotify, iTunes and Google Store. Although on the face of it, seven songs doesn’t seem much, believe me when I say they cram a lot in to each and every song, in the best way possible!.. Opening song `Beekeeper’ chugs to life with demonic vocals, intricate dynamic guitars and a hell of a lot of ethereal atmospheric vibes – you could say this is a ‘buzz’ worthy opening that will take you through a musical exploration and will leave a ‘sting’, especially with the shift half way through taking a more darker turn, as well introducing powerful clean vocals which help give more depth and emphasis. There are many elements and transitions here, but it is executed with such precision and style making it flow and remain coherent... ‘Easter I...

London based, Abhorrent Decimation are fairly new to UK metal scene only forming back in 2013, but already they are creating quite an impact with their debut EP, 'Infected Celestial Utopia' and have been added to the line up of the rebirth of Brighton's metal Festival, MammothFest, with this coming up I caught up with vocalist, Ashley Scott in advance to talk about it, amongst other things.. As you only formed last year you have currently only released your debut EP, 'Infected Celestial Utopia', but what has the reaction been like so far for this release? GREAT! We are really pleased with the response to our debut release. Our intention was always to grow from home outwards, work hard on the spreading the name and get the product out into the hands of fans and the UK has certainly received it well. We consistently deliver a brutal performance live and people have seemed to really catch onto what we are aiming for and trying to achieve here....

  MammothFest have today unleashed the final additions to the existing line up of the festival! Having originally stated that 22 bands will be on line up, its actually 24 and in a epic surprise have added two bigger bands Basement Torture Killings and Exist Imortal along with all the other final acts, Stone Circle (returning to MammothFest once again!), Core Of iO, Hole In The Sky, Taken By The Tide, Exile The Titan and Headface. www.mammothmetalfestival.co.uk To purchase tickets and merchandise for festival go here http://vanitasdirect.com/home/711-t-shirt-package.html   for some mighty packages & hurry as the ticket prices are going to be going up as we get nearer to the main event! Also if you can't wait until the festival there are some MammothFest warm up gigs to get you ready! To find out details visit the MammothFest site or the facebook page for the event here: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/1447538778813134/?fref=ts  or https://www.faceboo...