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Mammothfest, the UK's fastest growing independent festival will descend on Brighton again. The festival is held across 3 days (30.09.16 - 02.10.16) and has already dropped jaws across the nation by revealing all its headlining acts in the later part of last year. Textures, Venom Inc., Conan & Eastern Front are all confirmed as bill toppers. On top of that, the festival then confirmed Bast, Black Moth, Conjurer, The Infernal Sea and Sworn Amongst as a further wave of acts confirmed to perform. NOW the Brighton based fest are back to drop some more announcements! "We feel it's time to crack out another wave of announcements" comments Steve Dickson, Mammothfest Director. "Sales of Early Bird weekend tickets and accommodation options have been extremely encouraging in light of our previous announcements and as we pull in to 2016 - Ash, Rich and I feel that now is the time to show a little more!". Joining the line up is: FRIDAY 30.09.16 @ The Green Door S...

THE MAMMOTH RETURNS!! T he UK metal community revels in delight after it’s brightest rising star in the independent festival market makes it’s opening announcements for their next event, MAMMOTHFEST 2016. The 3 day indoor festival, based in Brighton has revealed ALL its 2016 headliners and has opened up sales for a limited quantity of Early Bird tickets (including accommodation options!!!). The festival kicks off it's announcements by revealing Dutch Prog Metal Maniacs, Textures will headline the opening night held at THE HAUNT, Friday 30th September. Saturday 1st October, see’s the legendary incarnation Venom Inc. headline CONCORDE 2 and closing the weekend on Sunday 2nd October at THE GREEN DOOR STORE are UK Battle Doom monsters Conan. But that’s not all, to offer a wider range of choice Mammothfest have also revealed a Black Metal stage that will run on Friday 30th September at THE GREEN DOOR STORE, this will be headlined by UK Black Metal warlords Eastern Front. You can p...

MAMMOTHFEST GETS BOLD and ANNOUNCES STAGE LINE UPS with YET MORE BANDS! MAMMOTHFEST have managed to bring back an exceptional band ONCE A WOLF from the dead along with the additions of SEETHING AKIRA, METAPRISM, LAST DAYS OF ROME and INEO to the main event in 2015. As well as the mighty ONSLAUGHT we are proud to welcome LAST DAYS OF ROME to the event. With obliterating Meshuggah style riffs, off kilt time signatures and poly rhythms there is no better way to start MAMMOTHFEST 2015 than by fucking with your heads: INEO are a 4 piece instrumental band with a strong likeness to Animals as Leaders but with their own unique styles that recently kept new fans locked in with blistering performances on their recent MAMMOTHFEST South coast tour. Arriving early is recommended to see them and all the other bands and cement your place in this small (destined to be sold out soon) up close and personal show with FEED THE RHINO who are also confirmed for Reading and Leeds festival MAI...

Mammothfest tv is an excellent medium to discover and appreciate new emerging and heavyweight metal acts within the UK and around the world, and is something we are in need of, as there's not a lot of shows around like this! Discussed in this latest episode is the thriving metal scene from extreme metal and UK festivals, including Damnation Festival and Temples Festival, and of course previews of the international bands that are due to grace our ears at Mammothfest 2015! They also mention worthy bands that help create the amazing metal scene we have such as: Killswitch Engage, Mask of Judas, Sam Bell Guitar (Mask of Judas), Valis Ablaze, Taken by the Tide, Derelict Dream, Benighted, Cancerous Womb, Abhorrent Decimation, PRIMITIVE MAN, Sea Bastard, Converge, Will Haven, SYN:DROM, Scarred, Damned Spring Fragrantia, Stormcast, Cyclamen, Psycroptic and more! All this is delivered in a sincere, down to earth and passionate manner from founder and creator of Mammothfest, the lege...

MAMMOTHFEST TV - The Mammothfest team have been working round the clock to deliver new ways of promoting the metal bands that come through their doors, and you know what, there is no better way than in a monthly 30 minute TV show! With music and video reviews, interviews, ONSLAUGHTS , "THIS IS THE SOUND OF VIOLENCE VIDEO" and live performance from Brighton thrash legends KING LEVIATHAN and more, there is no doubt about the potential of this project and for a very first ever TV show the results are simply staggering! The Mammothfest team urge every one to watch this and share the link to spread the word. Watch the Carnage here:  Stephen Dickson, the Mammothfest director commented : “We are having to be so creative about how we promote our brand, events and bands and with the demise of the young ones and a lack of any regular decent metal performances on Jools holland or any other TV shows we thought we would step up and make it happen. Not just that, we are ...

Mammothfest has been hard at work putting together a 30 date national tour to seek out 20 of the best underground acts to be selected to complete the 80+ band line up at MAMMOTHFEST 2015 between Friday 2nd - Sunday 4th October 2015. The MAMMOTHFEST team will bare witness to over 150 bands throughout the summer and provide much needed energy and investment into certain areas especially where there are venues that are currently at risk of closure. Not only that, the franchising of the MAMMOTHFEST brand across the UK gives localised promoters greater reach to draw in larger customer numbers. Some have even set up their own one day festival style events like the "Among the Wolves Festival" in Wolverhampton! Stephen Dickson, the Mammothfest director commented :  “Having 30 promoters all over the UK combine like this has been a Mammoth task but now the network is in place we are seeing a national buzz around these events. Promoters are hyped about the proj...

  Check out my interview with the man that made MammothFest happen up on Burning Fist here: http://burningfist.co.uk/2014/09/26/interview-steve-dickson-mammothfest/      Me and Steve Dickson at MammothFest, Brighton 2014! Bring on Mammothfest 2015! Read details on future of festival in interview!     Special Thanks for Burning Fist for putting interview up on their site and be sure to check out all the other content on there!     

Mammothfest 2014 Review For Planet Loud TV     Check out the day one review of Mammothfest in Brighton here: http://www.planetloud.tv/festivals/mammothfest-day-1-with-savage-messiah-meta-stasis-stone-circle-live-review Check out my review on Planet Loud TV of day two of Mammothfest: http://www.planetloud.tv/festivals/mammothfest-day-2-with-martyr-defiled-no-sin-evades-his-gaze-ingested

      With just three weeks to go now until the return of MammothFest in 2014 a final line-up change has been announced, as Aeolist had to pull out due to their drummer sustaining a broken hand, so Furyborn, a melodic death metal band from Dorset step up to to take their place and to tie in with this latest addition, the important matter of the day spilts have finally been unleashed also! (See poster above!)   Check out the latest band, Furyborn here: https://www.facebook.com/furyborn  & http://www.furyborn.com/   To mark and celebrate the rebirth of the festival  and the awesome line-up it has in store, MammothFest are releasing a epic LTD Ed. Tee (pictured below). Available from this week, only 30 will be printed, so make sure you keep an eye on the facebook to see when they are available: https://www.facebook.com/mammothmetalfestival   The tee also has a back print, featuring the line up - with which ...

    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...

    Check out the new issue of Stencil Mag! This issue features my interview with festival organiser of MammothFest Brighton, Steve Dickson here: http://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue25/151  as well as my reviews of Breathe Carolina, Distant Signals and Bear Trade on pages:  http://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue25/160 & http://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue25/167 All this plus loads of other awesome interviews and reviews from the likes of The Offspring, Bury Tomorrow, Crossfaith, I Killed The Prom Queen plus tonnes more!   http://issuu.com/stencilmag/docs/issue25/   Carina   

MammothFest returns after four year break bringing Brighton back its only dedicated metal festival! Today sees the first announcement of headliners Savage Messiah and Martyr Defiled, along with main support Meta-stasis and Ingested announced At early Mammothfest Ticket Cost which can be purchased here: http://mammothfest.bigcartel.com/  This reduced ticket price is for a very limited time only.  ‘Early-Mammothfest’ tickets are now on sale at just £15 for a pass to both incredible days.  The price is due to rise on announcement of the next set of acts in about a week’s time with 18 more acts to follow! The First MammothFest saw the likes of Emtombed, Sylosis, Malefice & more wreak havoc in the South East of England and went down a storm so the resurgence of the festival is much anticipated! Festival organiser Steve Dickson had this to say about the Festival's comeback: “The interest in Mammothfest was significant from the moment I announced this years event. ...