Cutting Edge showcase event at the Camden Underworld!
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TITANS invade Gravesend this Friday!
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More and more bands entering BAND QUEST 2010!
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Rat n Parrot Re-Lived massive success - you raised.....

With Band Quest 2010 fast approaching these bands prepare with a warm up which will start the week off with a bang.

Last years Band Quest finalists INTO EXILE headline tonight, with support from CALLOUS, INTERNAL SCARS and everyones favourite lightning fast guitar player ROY STONE. DJ LIFEGUARD BUNNY ensures the music pumps between bands.

The Monday Hate Club at the Bull and Vic every Monday.

£2.50 entry for everyone.

What track would you really like to hear played by the DJs at The Monday Hate Club? – Email us a request now!

The Metal Cross continues to bring you the best in heavy music to the South East of London on the odd Wednesday!

Tech metallers SUBVERSION headline tonight with VOID and THIS ADDICTION in close support.

The Metal Cross at the New Cross Inn every odd Wednesday.

£3.00 entry for everyone.

What track would you really like to hear played by the DJs at The Metal Cross? – Email us a request now!

The SNOW won the day 2 weeks ago but not the war! The first Cutting Edge of 2010 is finally here!

After a sold out debut show at the Underworld in 2009 (featuring Alestorm, Silent Descent and O.M.T) CUTTING EDGE returns with another top line-up.

Melodic death metallers IGNOMINIOUS INCARCERATION headline this special showcase event. Their 'Of Winter Born' (debut for Earache) album received top reviews across the industry and they are ready to release their fury on you! Wacken bound SNAKEBITE are the main support alongside DENOUNCE who ripped Bloodstock a new one in 2008. Band Quest 2009 Metal finalists REASONABLE DOUBT and INTO EXILE open the evening.

Cutting Edge - An Industry Showcase at the Underworld in Camden.

£6.00 in advance and £7.00 on the door.

Tickets available from all bands (except the headliners) and Stargreen, Seetickets, Ticketweb and behind the bar upstairs at the Worlds End Pub.

After some reschuduling due to snow the Titans are finally here!

The birth of strength within the British Metal Scene collide in one MASSIVE furious night of metal. Gravesend will shake for months after this.

Local techno metallers SILENT DESCENT need no introduction. Sets at Download, Bloodstock and most recently at the Cutting Edge showcase event at the Camden Underworld has seen the band take massive strides, beating their electrofied metal riffage over the heads of fans and industry folk alike. Also playing are INFESTATION while THE CUSTARD CHUCKERS add some comical respite. The simply excellent SANCTORUM open the evening. Downstairs ZOCALO headline with support from thrashers SANITY BURNS and A CHAOS WITHIN. DJ 69 will keep things metal between bands.

The Titans - A Heavyweight Showdown at the Red Lion in Gravesend.

£5.00 entry to all.

What track would you really like to hear played by the DJs at The Titans - A Heavyweight Showdown? – Email us a request now!

The youth, the youth, the youth is on fire in Welling!

Things are about to get hot with CONSPIRACY THEORY, CRITIX, ELECTRIC SPAGHETTI and WAIT FOR TOMORROW.

Youth Event at the St Michael's Community Centre next Saturday.

£5.00 entry for everyone.

What track would you really like to hear played by the DJs at Youth Event? – Email us a request now!

"It's nice to know that theres extreme bands ready to rip 2010 a new one. Ignominious Incarceration are one such band."

Jason Brett (Rock Matrix) - Full review in reviews section of this newsletter.

Ignominious Incarceration are a fast-rising modern death metal band based in Bath in the UK. This talented, young five-piece deliver an instantly recognisable, crushing, modern sound whilst being unmistakably rooted in traditional death metal.

Having only formed in 2006, Ignominious Incarceration are one fast-moving band.

Only six weeks after forming in a small town called Wellington in the UK, the band played their first gig to a humble audience of around 20 people. By the time the band played their third show, they had replaced Abigail Williams on a tour slot as the main support act for Bring Me The Horizon and were playing to over 400 people.

Since those early shows, Ignominious Incarceration have been moving at light-speed, both musically and in their progression as a band. Quickly being tipped as one of the best new British death metal bands, they have toured with the likes of Trigger the Bloodshed and Bleed From Within, and have an unreleased 6-track EP under their belts.

In May 2008, only two years after forming, Ignominious Incarceration's hard-working ethic paid off as the band signed a worldwide record deal with extreme metal label, Earache Records.

Taken from the Earache website.

IGNOMINIOUS INCARCERATION myspace.

Band Quest 2010 IS The South East's most comprehensive set of opportunities for alternative music acts. A Free to Enter*, multi-faceted promotional platform which includes opportunities such as Live Recordings and Filming of live events for DVD production within a Battle of the Bands-esque format, 6 Finals where at least every finalist wins a prize valued at £100 upward, with up to 60 PRIZES, worth over £20K and extended high profile industry showcases with top acts. Your music could feature on an exciting brand new set of triple Promotional CD compilations going to industry addresses. You will appear in a full colour program covering all Band Quest acts and supporters.

If you are in a band and want to apply immediately click on the image below and you will be taken to the application form:

This platform also offers reduced studio costs, festival slots, local discounts, money saving merchandise deals and more.... so what you waiting for? You just can't lose?

* A deposit is required to ensure a place which is fully returnable at the end of the duration of the events undertaken in the battle of the bands period.

You can view more details at the Band Quest website by clicking on the flyer below:

The total Raised Thursday was £1020. It was an amazing effort with the money coming from door, raffle and loose donations - Fantastic Effort! There will be a joint announcement about the recipient of the money raised as after speaking with Deon's mum we wanted to make sure it went to the charity of her wish. An explanation of why it has gone there will come shortly.

Thank you everyone.

Rest In Peace Our Dear Friend Deon 'Spider' Weston Facebook group

Are you in a band?

Do you want to play a gig or gigs?

Then email annika@unifiedsounds.co.uk

TEMPEST LOVE needs:

- Guitarist

We're a metal band named Tempest Love, from Maidstone, Kent. We have done a few gigs and are soon to be professionally re-recording our album. We're looking for somebody confident Who will provide creative input, will be able to learn our existing material quickly and plays comfortably within the metal genre.

Contact the band here: tempest-love@live.com.

COMETH OF SOLACE needs:

- Drummer

Cometh of Solace is a small metal band based in the north east we are not aiming to be like most metal band that are going around we are putting our own little twist with softcore lyrics and hard fast driving riffs. Cometh of Solace will make you wanna scream your house down.

Contact the band here: andylittlebritain@msn.com or ring 07941865704.

PRINCE KATOCO needs:

- Drummer

Contact the band here: cmp5000@hotmail.co.uk or ring Chris on 07506 550 303 or spoek@tiscali.co.uk or ring Joe on 07738 820 290.

Singer available - Contact Darren Holmes here: dareneholmes@hotmail.co.uk.

Heavyweight bass lines crash into some groove-fried riffs on this three track demo.

Lead track 'Control' may sound simple but it's relentless main riff thunders through the brain, trapping your concious, stamping all over it and spitting it out in time for the Crowbar inspired crunch and grind of 'Rise'. 'Intravenous' raises the pace, the bass and guitar working together to form an unstoppable bastion of heaviness, with a furiously slamming chorus.

In truth this demo only shows some of what Kill The Machine can do. Witness them live and you be sold on them!

7.5/10

Review by Alan Hicks

Based somewhere between The Birthday Massacre and Helalyn Flowers this demo is immediate, wasting no time in showcasing the bands ear for melody. The likes of 'This night' bounces along with a pop sensibility unseen in many goth quarters. Don't be fooled into thinking this is some kind of lightweight goth pop though, as the pulsating electronics heard on 'She cries to lullabies' contain a dark and sinister aftertaste, while the driving guitars on both 'Last wish' and 'Blessed by the sun' ensure this demo contains a blackened punch alongside the melody.

An interesting and exciting release from Diva Suicide.

7.5/10

Review by Alan Hicks

Irish Pagan masters PRIMORDIAL will release their first ever DVD All Empires Fall on February, 28th / March, 1st 2010 via Metal Blade in Europe! It'll be a DVD-set containing two discs full of quality material!

Disc 1 is the centrepiece of the DVD and features a full PRIMORDIAL headline show recorded live on the 24th of January, 2009 in their hometown of Dublin, Ireland. The show was filmed with five cameras and has an exceptional vintage look due to the hard work in post production. A truly impressive and powerful live gig, exciting from start to finish in front of die hard PRIMORDIAL audience and a perfect sound track that is available in stereo and 5.1!

Disc 2 features live clips from the bands appearances at Ragnarok Festival (Germany), Hove Festival (Norway) and Graspop Metal Meeting (Belgium) in 2008. The second disc also features a band documentary with all the inside stories and loads of ancient footage from the early stages of the band. The documentary has a playing time of approx. 60 minutes. Interviews with all band members and rehearsal footage complete the second disc of the set!

The special Deluxe version of All Empires Fall features expanded packaging and two additional audio CDs featuring the Dublin show!

Here's what singer A.A. Nemtheanga has to say about All Empires Fall:

"...the gods have been working hard dogging the release of our first dvd 'All Empires Fall' but finally we are ready to prevail. The DVD will contain our Dublin show from last year, a documentary and bonus material from recent festivals. The special edition will contain the audio discs of the Dublin show, so you can hear how some old classics are played now, some almost two decades after writing. So how does it look? The simple answer is and without exaggeration possibly one of the best Metal live shows I've ever seen. We filmed it on analog reels, cut it with frightening pace and mixed it up with some very unconventional camera angles. It has the feel of a classic show from the late 70s not the clean, clinical digital vacuum most modern shows are filmed in. We also invested a lot of time, money and effort so don't expect one of those free recordings most festivals and soundstages offer. As normal we didn't do anything conventionally so there are no boring balcony stills or side of stage montages. No overdubs, auto tuning or drop ins we are proud that 'All Empires Fall' shows us as we are and as a Primordial show always is. Blood and thunder and no quarter given from start to finish..."

Conceived by rock n' roll, born the bastard child of punk; raised on streets filled with trash, worshipped on the altar of rock and welded to the engine by metal...!!! Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the infamous INTREPID FOX... From it's beginnings in the heart of Soho in the sixties, once patronised by the likes of Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, hellraising actors Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole; the seventies led to the Sex Pistols and Malcolm Mclaren proclaiming it "like an old friend"; Slash could be seen propping up the bar in the eighties whilst the nineties provided a watering-hole for such legends as Lemmy and Zakk Wylde... Re-located to it's new lair in St Giles in 2006, the Fox continues to uphold the alternative spirit, playing host to Iron Maiden, Bullet For My Valentine, Buckcherry, Zodiac Mindwarp and Backyard Babies to name a few, always providing a safe haven for London's rockers and goths, punks and metallers alike. Always entertaining and fun, frequently deranged n' impossibly handsome the wily old Fox continues to rock this town like a motherfker...!!!

Check out the calendar, our resident dj's Fri & Sat in the upstairs bar from 9PM: Dj Lola (Unholy) & Danny Serrano with "METAL DEMENTIA", playing all things hard n' heavy. Max (Generation Graveyard) & Rich Jones (The Loyalties) with "3rd GENERATION NATION", playing dirty gutter punk n' roll. Devilman, Lucyfur & Lucretia with "DENIM & LEATHER", playing tunes n' drinking booze. Adam Lightspeed (Electric Ballroom) & Ben Christo (Sisters Of Mercy) with "HELL YEAH", Jonny Le Shithouse (Generation Graveyard) & Sky (King Lizard) with "DIRTY BOMB", playing hard n' sleazy rock wiv a touch o' metal. Dj Lola & Dany (Breed 77) with "ALCOHAULIN' ASS", playing metal and stoner. Duncan & Giles with "LAST MEN STANDING", playing metal and hard rock. Shel with "SHOCK TREATMENT", playing all things glam.

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK MON-WED 3PM til 11PM THUR 3PM til MIDNIGHT FRI-SAT 3PM til 2AM SUN 5PM til 11PM We are an over 18's venue, ID will be required if you look under 21 We reserve the right to refuse admission (no football colours, chavs or suit n' ties unless it's rock n' roll...!!!)

Taken from the Intrepid Fox myspace page.

Address details for the Intrepid Fox.

Free entry for all.

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