Popular 90s alt-rockers Kerbdog have properly returned! They release ‘Congregation’ – a live document of their reunion shows of 2013 – on October 6th, but more importantly have plans to record their third studio album next year.
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Northern Oak announce tour dates
To tie in with the release of their superb 2014 release ‘Of Roots and Flesh’, folk metal band Northern Oak have confirmed a short run of live shows.
Those located in the north of England (or willing to travel) can see the band live at the following venues between the end of September and November:
I Am I: Upcoming tour dates for 2014/15
UK based power metal band I Am I have a bunch of tour dates scheduled for the near future as well as a confirmed appearance for early 2015.
Still promoting their ‘Event Horizon’ album, the band (featuring one time Dragonforce vocalist Z P Theart) can be caught at the following venues in 2014:
WITCH MOUNTAIN – Mobile Of Angels
Prior to its release in the last quarter of 2014, Portland’s Witch Mountain proclaimed ‘Mobile of Angels’ to be their “most complete album yet”. At that time, the band had already survived seventeen years of changing musical fashions alongside shifting personnel; the core of their sound now resembling an uncompromising, crushing slowness inflected with a bluesy tone. ‘Mobile’ certainly shows a hugely broad confidence and its material, for the most part, represents top class doom metal. Granted, the bulk of the songs do not necessarily represent anything that anyone bar the more committed doom fan would reach for on a regular basis, but then, it’s unlikely that Witch Mountain were ever looking for mass acceptance with this album – but in terms of becoming one of the strongest acts within their field, it’s a resounding success. It also acts as an epitaph for another phase of the band’s journey, being the last in a trilogy of discs to feature lead vocalist Uta Plotkin.
At The Gates, Destruction & Dark Funeral announced for BlastFest 2015
German thrash legends Destruction, Dark Funeral and black metallers At The Gates are among the first brace of bands confirmed for BlastFest 2015, a new extreme metal festival held in Norway. With a handful of bands already announced and twenty more to be confirmed, it’s set to put itself firmly upon the metal calendar.
The full press release can be read below.