Cutting Edge bands storm the Camden Underworld!
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Guess what? ROMFORD ROXX!
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Gravesend witnesses clash of the TITANS!
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Get Trashed in Dartford Tuesday - excellent line-up!

We are taking things further afield this week as we host our first ever event at Romford's Edge Bar this Monday in preparation for the up and coming Band Quest heats that will soon get Romfords scene going.

We have a great trio of bands for you with TRASH MONROE, MEMORIES FORGOTTEN and INTERNAL SCARS all performing live on the night.

So make sure you come along and check this thing out!

Romford Roxx at the Edge Bar every odd Monday.

£3.00 entry for everyone.

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

Yes, thats right, we are returning to the Bull n Vic on a TUESDAY! And we have got a pretty good looking line up for the occasion.

In CITIES FALL SILENT we have a band that combines the best of the emo and pop-punk genres, leaving the bad bits firmly back in the early 00s, where as THE GRAFTERS are all about classic hard rock. BLAME JANE will bring the true meaning of alternative to Dartford with a bizarre mix of Iron Maiden meets The Clash! RED-FIRE DAWN open the night.

Trashy Tuesday at the Bull and Vic every odd Tuesday.

£2.00 for Loyalty Card Holders, £2.50 for everyone else.

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

Get ready to roar on 2 floors at the Red Lion again this Friday!

Band Quest (Alt) 2009 winners IN THE RED headline with sleaze rockers RED 13 in close support. MIND, ABANDON THE FAITH and ACCIDENTS also play.

Live At The Lion at the Red Lion every odd Friday.

You can buy tickets in advance online here: www.wegottickets.com/event/70336.

On the door: £3.00 for everyone.

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

Our very own DJ 69 spins some metal at Unholy's 1st Birthday Party. Full details below:

Sat 30th Jan UNHOLY 1st BIRTHDAY! 10.30pm-6am

ALTERRED Live at 12.15am

CONCRETE LUNG Live at 11.30pm

Plus 4 Floors of the scene's finest alternative DJ's incl: FRANKIE D, JO THE WAITER, CAROLINE VAIN, BREED 77 Dj's, BRAHIM KD, SPUNKY LOBSTER, DJ 69 and loads more!

Loadsa Cheap drinks Specials all night Incl: Red Stripe Cans, JD and Coke, Vodka + mixer all at £2.90

FREE ENTRY B4 11pm, then £3 until 11.30pm then £6. (no adv tickets)

Unholy Club at the Scala in Kings Cross.

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:

Are you in a band?

Do you want to play a gig or gigs?

Then email annika@unifiedsounds.co.uk

Multi-instrumentalist/songwriter available - Based in Dartford with own equipment and studio, looking for others. Influences: A Perfect Circle, Soundgarden, Tool, Muse, Radiohead etc.

Contact Tom Fitzgerald here: ring 01322 284 009.

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.

After the astounding success of last years initial Cutting Edge showcase there was much anticipation for the second. The likes of Alestorm, Silent Descent and O.M.T brought the house down back in September, but now it was the turn of Ignominious Incarceration, Denounce, Snakebite, Reasonable Doubt and Into Exile.

Into Exile (6.5/10) seemed to emerge from knowhere in 2009. This didn't prevent them blasting their way to both the Band Quest and TotalRock M2TM finals, earning themselves the 'best new band' title. Tonight they opened up proceedings with a typical bout of ferociousness, the Underworld sound system making each riff hit harder than ever before. The vocals sound as if they get heavier everytime they play, which helps give weight to the impressive twin guitar attack. A rusty looseness holds the songs back a little but the head banging crowd don't seem to give a damn.

Next up were Reasonable Doubt (7) who were as usual impressively tight. The fact they are considered to be the 'most improved band' after impressing in last years Band Quest competition is of no surprise, and tonight they go one step further again. They sound massive with every note of their set maximised to its full potential, hitting the crowd for six. No wonder they are supporting Malefice in a few months.

One of the reasons Snakebite (7.5) steamrollered most of their opposition in last years Band Quest was charismatic frontman Jason Smith's ability to control any crowd put in front of him. It was no different on this night as the entire Underworld split into two for one of the biggest walls of death seen in North London in recent years. As always the Pantera influences shine through in this groove metal orientated set, with the crowd lapping up every note. Wacken won't know what's hit them!

You get the feeling with Denounce (7.5) that they could play an entire set upside down and backwards and still sound as tight and professional as they always do. 'Solace' is the best track of the night, combining lethal doses of heaviness and melody. Their thrash/death metal approach is one of unrelenting intensity which can leave the uninitiated gasping for breath.

Ignominious Incarceration (7.5) from Earache records sign the night off with a nice slab of melodic death metal. As proved on their album 'Of Winter Born' their material is slick, heavy and sometimes crushingly good. Andy Wardle's vocals sound big enough to lift the entire crowd and shake them until nothing is left. Sounding bigger and bolder than what had gone before Ignominious Incarceration bring the second Cutting Edge showcase night to an end.

This showcase may have ended but Band Quest 2010 is only about to begin.

After a month of venomous attacks from the snow, leading to this gig being rescheduled two weeks later than first planned the Titans gig finally went ahead.

Openers Sanctorum (8/10), back at this venue again after turning up and playing on the original date, showed why they caused waves at Bloodstock last year with their titanic riffage and pounding stadium sized songs. They open tonight with another set of head banging masterpieces such as 'Carved in stone' to an appreciative crowd.

Death metallers Infestation (8) get into the groove immediately and succeed in blasting every last person in the Red Lion to the outer layers of Hell with a set of scorching intensity. The vocals from Dave Samuel are stunning, giving the band extra ammunition to send down onto an unsuspecting crowd. At times they sound like Vader and Cannibal Corpse ganging up on Glenn Benton for an easy kill. As their set ends the crowd clap with what energy remains.

Following such an exlosion of musical heaviness is never easy, but The Custard Chuckers (7.5) do it with ease. Their tongue in cheek comedy acoustic act couldn't be further away from the death metal onslaught that went before them, but they manage to drag some of the crowd into the spirit of the occasion with songs about Mark Fowler (Eastenders) and sleeping with certain family members.... I doubt you find a bigger group of death metal fans with smiles on their faces for the rest of the year.

Techno metallers Silent Descent (7.5) end the night on a high with their usual mix of pounding beats and heavy guitars. In truth it leans more towards the metal side of things with the electronics taking a back seat to some grinding riffs and guttural vocals , courtesy of Tom Watling. The set is not only a fitting send off for their bassist who is leaving the band but also a great end the week.

The Titans came, they played, they conquered.

Review by Alan Hicks

Visceral Swedish Black metal outfit VALKYRJA are to stream their entire new album 'CONTAMINATION' for 7 days on terrorizer.com starting on Monday 25th January.

As with their previous offering 'The Invocation of Demise', 'Contamination' was recorded in Necromorbus Studio with producer Tore Stjerna (Watain, Razor of Occam, Destroyer 666) and saw it's UK release on Monday 18th January 2010.

To check out 'Contamination' in it's entirety, click here: www.terrorizer.com.

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.

FACEBOOK:

Facebook group - Band Quest/Unified Sounds

Facebook group - Rock Matrix

Facebook group - Red Roar Festival 2010

Facebook group - Rock Matrix Loyalty Card Holder

Facebook group - Dark Desires

Facebook group - Bloodstock

MYSPACE:

www.myspace.com/rockmatrix

www.myspace.com/rockmatrixpromotions

www.myspace.com/redroarfestival

www.myspace.com/bloodstock