Mad About Rock

  Celebrating 10 years, UPRISING returns to Leicester's O2 Academy for a huge milestone event, with returning favourites and heavy hitters making their debut. Kicking off the announcements for Uprising 9 are… UK metallers PITCHSHIFTER are confirmed as headliners for Uprising! This will be the band’s only live performance in 2026 and as always it promises to be unmissable. The band’s career straddles 30 years, 10 albums, tours of over 30 countries, cover features in Metal Hammer, Rock Sound and Kerrang! magazines, John Peel and Radio One Rock Show Sessions, and profile slots at Ozzfest, Reading & Leeds, Damnation, Vans Warped Tour and the Big Day Out. Their music has been featured across numerous movies, TV and video games - hell, they’ve even had a strip in 2000AD magazine with Judge Dredd. After decades in the game, they are loved by many bands and are still cited as an influence by upcoming artists. Check out the band's 1998 single ‘Genius’, taken from the album ‘ www.pit...

  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...

Big News! 2021 tour dates and a 2020 song collaboration with members of Clawfinger, Static X, Misery Loves Company, Frank Turner, Bullet For My Valentine, Skindred, Fear Factory, Hacktivist, Stamping Ground, Earthtone 9, Romeo Must Die, Sikth, Raging Speedhorn and Seething Akira! Wait, WHAT!? “EFKD 2020” single: * Stream: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/pitchshifter/efkd-2020-single * buy: https://pitchshifteruk.bandcamp.com Tickets for the Pitchshifter Nov-Dec 2021 UK tour: https://www.alttickets.com/pitchshifter-tickets Says vocalist JS Clayden: “I thought that everything was as messed up as it was going to get in the year 2000 when we originally released the ‘Everything’s F**ked’ single; but we're two decades down the road and the lyrics are still applicable. We’re living in a slow-motion apocalypse. What better way to finally jockey clown ship earth off the bluffs than a re-issue of a 20-year-old tune lamenting the madness with a bunch of like-minded deviant provocat...