Dreadzone: November/December gigs

Having already kicked off their tour in October (which included a show at Southend’s Chinnerys), Dreadzone continue to celebrate their twentieth anniversary in style with a bunch more shows taking them right up to the end of 2013.

Promoting their seventh album ‘Escapades’, the genre-busting band (featuring ex-members of Big Audio Dynamite) are set to appear at the following venues:

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SLAVE ZERO – Disambiguated Visionary

Slave ZeroLet’s not pretend here: along with ‘Abandon All Life’ by Nails, this is undoubtedly one of 2013’s heaviest releases. But then, we had been warned: prior to Slave Zero dropping this fifth offering, vocalist Graham V. Flynn claimed ‘Disambiguated Victory’ to be “heavy, unrelenting and unpredictable”.  It is certainly all of those things.   It’s also a brief lesson in how to make an intensely technical death metal record – one which branches out a little further with each passing track – but naturally, it won’t be to everyone’s tastes.

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