Metal Mondays are back!
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Dartford Alter-Tainment Nights move to new venue!
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Heavvy Sundayz is gonna get hot with Inner Fire!
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The Noisegate at The Drayman on Thursday - are changes on the way??

After an excellent set at the Metal-X-Mass all-dayer INNER FIRE get heavy on a Sunday in Bexleyheath. ESCAPE THE SKIES and Without Remorse guitarist ANDY FINNEY support.

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Hevvy Sundays at OHM every Sunday.

FREE ENTRY everyone.

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Some things you can't hold back and METAL MONDAYS is one of them! Yes, Metal Mondays are back, and back at The Drayman every Monday.

Metalcore masters FALLING EMPIRE welcome metal back to mondays. Thrashers SANITY BURNS also play along with metal-industrial experimenters DYSTOLIC. DJ 69 spins some of the best metal from 2008 between bands.

Metal Mondays at The Drayman in Bexleyheath every Monday.

FREE ENTRY everyone.

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A new year and a new venue! Yes, on Tuesdays we are now at the Darenth Suite, Acacia Hall.

A great night out with live bands playing on the night, along with raffles, karaoke, food deals, comedy acts, Wii competitions, pool competitions, crowd/band bingo, and lots more for everybody to enjoy!

This week we have MARTYN KINGSMILL, FLIIPY, BURGNADY and THE SCREAMING WEEZELS.

Dartford Alter-Tainment Nights at the Darenth Suite, Acacia Hall every Tuesday.

FREE ENTRY.

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The Noisegate at the The Drayman in Bexleyheath every Thursday.

ROOM 1 – ALTA-SCOPE will concentrate on the lighter and eclectic side of the alternative music spectrum.

ROOM 2 – RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL will side with the heavier, sleazier, gothy and more extreme side!!

2 Pool Tables

Projection Screens, Lighting, Effects!

7pm-Midnight - The whole night (Lower Floor) and upstairs (8pm-11.30pm) when open

BBQ and Patio (on the warm nights) or stating subject to weather

Drinks Promo's inc, Buy on get ONE FREE on bottles of wine, Vodka and Red Bull Mix £3, Fosters, Becks, Stella, Strongbow and selected house Spirits with Mixer £2.50, and '2 for 1 cocktails £5/£6 + More!

Staffed Door!

Special Promotional Feature Nights, with free stuff and Brand New Music!

Over 18's ID Essential

No entry after 11pm

FREE entry for Gold loyalty card holders - £1.00 for everyone else.

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Local death metallers RITUAL ABUSE play the Purple Turtle in Camden on Saturday 17th January.

Things are gonna get brutal!

Bloodstock Open Air returns in 2009 and is set to increase in size for the 5th year running. Three days full of pure metal and a little bit more at Catton Hall!

Weekend tickets cost £85.00 (up to 15th December, after which they will increase) and can be ordered from the Bloodstock website - Order Bloodstock Open Air tickets.

Here are the bands confirmed so far:

• AMON AMARTH
• SATYRICON
• SAXON
• KATATONIA
• TURISAS
• THE HAUNTED
• CANDLEMASS
• WINTERSUN
• SABATON
• DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER

For more information on the festival visit the Bloodstock website.

Local metal masters SILAS have a new EP out. It's self titled, has 3 songs 'In The Grind' 'Rollin On' and 'Angles Lie' and is available completely free from any SILAS gig or by request via email at silasmusic@hotmail.co.uk or on myspace at www.myspace.com/silasworld.

CONQUEST need:

- Bass player
- Drummer

Contact this band here: leslie.clayden@ntlworld.com or admin@roystone.com or ring Les Clayden on 07832 235715.

ROY STONE needs:

- All musicians

Contact Roy Stone here: admin@roystone.com or www.myspace.com/roystonelink.

UNTIL I BLEED need:

- Guitarist (with some lead ability)
- Bassist
- Drummer
- Female vocalist

Contact this band here: tombwibble@yahoo.co.uk

Following on from fine efforts by fellow Gravesenders Denounce and Silent Descent, Cursed As Angels release a quality debut album.

Over the past 2 years Cursed As Angels have built up a strong local following thanks to their impressive live shows and collection of songs. An award from TotalRock radio in 2007 was followed by one of their most impressive performances at the Bloodstock festival this summer gone. This all led nicely to the release of 'The Hanging Tree'.

Crushing openers 'And so it has been...' and 'War' cram everything you like about Cursed As Angels into two songs. Chugging riffs are backked up with highly melodic choruses thanks to the distintive vocal of Omen Jinx. There is no let up as 'Scream all you want' blares out from the speakers, threatning to encite a mosh pit wherever you may be listening to it. The song is driven by an almost mechanical drumming style. The title track and 'Stand alone' have melody spilling out from them before you are met with the dual female/Omen vocal attack on 'The puzzle box'. 'Rise up' sounds like an old friend having heard it so many times over the past few years. Next up is 'Bleeding hearts' which was featured on the Scratch The Surface metal compilation ealier this year. On penaltimate track 'Only a fool breaks the two second rule' we see more aggression as seen at the start of the album, while 'Soul searchers' is well placed as the album closer.

What is most impressive about this album is that it gets better after every listen. The whole album is laced with some quality guitar work which at times sounds similar to icon-era Paradise Lost, while Omen Jinx puts on an excellent vocal display throughout.

Cursed As Angels have successfully put all of the good bits of their last 2 years onto this disc and made an album which can stand proud alongside the excellent releases from both Denounce and Silent Descent.

Watch out world, the Gravesend 3 are coming!

8/10

Review by Alan

PSYOPUS has always been on the cutting edge of tech metal - pushing the genre to an extreme that no other band has yet been able to reach. Led by main man, Chris Arp (who has been a touring guitarist for Hank III and Ass Jack), their new album, Odd Senses, promises to provide just that; especially in the category of "how in the hell did he play that?" Cover art for Odd Senses, PSYOPUS' third studio album can be seen below along with the track listing. Here's what main man and gonzo guitarist Chris 'Arpmandude' has to say about the new album: "I am super psyched about the new album. I think the sound of the group has successfully been reinvented. The album lays out a colorful pallet of new concepts and attitudes which, from start to end, is quite the fucking trip. I am anxious to let our fans have the opportunity to dive right in!"

The album will list 10 tracks all lending themselves to the PSYOPUS tech, mathy and experimental formula.

Tracklisting 'Odd Senses':

1. .44
2. Medusa
3. The Burning Halo
4. Duct Tape Smile
5. X and Y
6. Boogeyman
7. Imogen's Puzzle Pt 3
8. Choker Chain
9. Ms Shyflower
10. A Murder to Child

'Odd Senses' will be released the 13th of February, 2009 in D/A/CH/I and the 16th of February, 2009 in the rest of Europe. PSYOPUS have uploaded a brand new song taken off 'Odd Senses' on their MySpace page here www.myspace.com/psyopus.

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