HERE ARE THE ROCK MATRIX MAIN HEADLINES THIS WEEK
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Grimhilde get very cross this Wednesday!
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Training Icarus return to the Bull and Vic!
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More than 1500 go mad at the Red Roar Festival!
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Is DJ 69 the AntiChrist???

Dartford Live | Metal Cross Live

TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER

Dartford Live

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Dartford Live continues to bring you the best in local alternative music every Tuesday!

This week ARCADES and VIRELAY play alongside TRAINING ICARUS who recently set Welling alight with an excellent performance. MATT WITHEY also plays.

Dartford Live at the Bull and Vic every Tuesday.

£1.00 for Loyalty Card Holders, £2.00 for those with flyers, £2.50 for everyone else.

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

WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER

Metal Cross Live

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Metal Cross Live continues to bring you the best in heavy music on the odd Wednesday!

GRIMHILDE, INTERNAL SKARS, NOCTURNAL PLAYGROUND and THIS ADDICTION make things heavy in New Cross tonight.

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

£2.00 for Loyalty Card Holders, £2.50 for those with flyers, £3.00 for everyone else.

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

FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER

DJ 69 spinning at Club AntiChrist

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DJ 69

Our very own DJ 69 is back spinning at Club AntiChrist this Friday!

Advance £20 or £25 on the door

FULL DETAILS HERE:
www.clubantichrist.com

Including:

9pm DOORS OPEN!! (and 9-10pm is HAPPY HOUR ALL DRINKS £2 or less!!)

Theatre of Sin:

9-10 DJs (and Happy Hour at the bar!)
10.00 Satan’s Strip Show
10.30 Lola Lenore (dark and dirty burlesque)
10.45 Dee Christopher (Russian Roulette)
11.10 Xykogen (Industrial band)
12.05 The Whores with Pariah Circus (Grunge punk band/fire and insanity)
12.50 Lola Lenore (dark and dirty burlesque)
1.10 Shanklin Freakshow (Vaudeville, Rock, Circus and Cabaret)
2-6 [Hellhole] DJs

The Hellfire Room - All night Massive Goth, Trad, and Alternative dancefloor DJs:

9-10 Cyber Andy (mash up Goth/alternative anthems)
10-11 DJ Stix (commercial / 80's goth)
11-12 d.Void (alt anthems/80's)
12-1 Knine (alt anthems)
1-2 d.Void (ind metal/alt)
2-3 DJX (goth/commercial)
3-4 DJ Stix
4-6 DJ 69

[HellHole] - Industrial dancefloor with lasers,smoke, anglegrinders.... DJs:

2-3 Knine (old school ind, guitar industrial)
3-4 Bod (dark electro-Industrial)
4-5 Cyber Andy (industrial)
5-6 Knine (AC Resident DJ)

The Devils Playroom - Fully Equipped Playpenz Dungeon. + Couples Darkroom, House Domme - Rebekka Raynor and DMs

Large comfortable Chillout Zone (with Thai food for sale) - We'll be trialling having a QUIET chillout area, with NO djs all night. The theory being that it's easier to go for a comfy chat with your mates when you don't have to shout above the tunes :-) Let us know if it works for you after or during the event!

Walkabouts include - closeup magician, jugglers, fire breathers, angle grinders, naked dancers, the suspender squad, and more stilt walkers than ever before!

Plus: naughty nurses giving out shots, evil doctors offering candy, Veil of Visions stall, AC Merch stall, free condoms, Thai food, latex cleaning service, and more...

www.clubantichrist.com

FULL TRAVEL DIRECTIONS HERE

SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER

The Thunderball

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ADAGIO

TO-MERA

NEONFLY

What better way to spend your Saturday night than at a top London venue watching 3 top bands! We'll be there so expect a review shortly after.

Not only do you get the progressive jazz metal of the female fronted TO-MERA and the pure metal delight of ADAGIO and NEONFLY you also get a club night until 3am featuring:

- POLE DANCERS
- 1AM JACK DANIEL'S BOTTLE GIVE AWAY
- GUEST DJs MICK PRIESTLEY (GREEN RIVER PROJECT) & BEN CHRISTO (SISTERS OF MERCY)

The Thunderball at the Purple Turtle in Camden.

NEEDED

Want to be in a band?

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2ND2NONE needs:

- Singer (male or female)

Contact the band here: battisonthomas@msn.com or s2nmusic@hotmail.co.uk.

CONQUEST need:

- Bass player

Contact this band here: www.myspace.com/2007conquest.

NOISEPILOTS needs:

- Drummer

Looking for an extremely talented drummer who is 20+, own gear and transport. London based or willing to travel to London, live and studio experience, dedication and influences from Grohl, Bonham, Serafin, Mew, Radiohead, Raconteurs, Tool, Haunts and Baddies.

Contact the band here: noisepilotsuk@gmail.com or www.myspace.com/noisepilotsuk.

ARXIS need:

- Bass player

Contact this band here: www.myspace.com/arxisuk.

MDMA need:

- Guitarist

Preferrably someone in their late teens/early twenties with an open mind as we are a diverse and energetic punk-rock/hip-hop outfit.

Contact this band here: check_this_shit@hotmail.com or www.myspace.com/mdmamusic.

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.

WAIT FOR TOMORROW needs:

- Guitar player X 2

Contact Ricky Lane here: picketfencecartel@hotmail.co.uk or www.myspace.com/waitfortomorrowuk.

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

Bassist available - Contact Jamison Nesbitt here: jtn70@btinternet.com or www.myspace.com/jamoid70.

FESTIVAL REVIEW

Red Roar Festival @ Red Lion 11-13/09/09

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When a group of promoters get together and plan to organise, promote and run a festival within an 8 week period, some of you would think it is time to pull out the strait-jackets! Despite this incredibly tight schedule over 100 bands and 1500 fans squeezed into the Red Lion music venue/pub in Gravesend between Friday 11th and Sunday 13th September for the inaugural Red Roar Festival.

RRF saw rock, indie, punk, metal, acoustic and other alternative genres spread across 4 stages in what turned out to be a full on musical party.

The opening day saw the 'Mane' stage house mainly metal bands such as Reasonable Doubt (7/10) and Carpathia (7) who's progressive death metal sound wound its way around the venue, caressing the ears of anyone within hearing distance of the stage. The likes of She Makes War (6.5) and Babar Luck (7) impressed on the acoustic stage with Babar seemingly playing a set of gangster folk lasting over 2 hours! Pop rockers Idiot3 (6) ensured the Mane stage wasn't solely metal before local house band Denounce (7.5) did the usual with a blistering 30 minute blast of superb death metal. This made the set from The Rotted (8) all the more special, with their punked up metal attack ensuring everyone left the opening day with their ears ringing. Those who could still hear enjoyed either a pounding dance set from some DJ on the acoustic stage or some dancefloor filling rock and metal sets from the 4 DJs of the Apocalypse on the Mane stage.

Saturday saw the much awaited performance from Subversi0n (7.5) who impressively mixed Strapping Young Lad meets Meshuggah-esque technical metal with some melodic surprises. Some indie-punk from Djevera (7.5) and female fronted metal from Splintered Soul (7.5) meant the Mane stage was in safe hands, while Luke Jackson (7) showcased arguably the most natuarally gifted vocals of the weekend out on the acoustic stage. Band of the weekend and main headliners Panic Cell (8.5) delivered a mightly slab of melodic metal, throwing in crowd favourites 'Save me', 'Away from here', an excellent cover of Seals 'Crazy' and several new tracks, making the performance exclusive. If all of the new album is as good as the few tasty tracks aired tonight, Panic Cell could be about to step into the premier league with their best album yet. Special guests Silent Descent (8) possibly sounded better than all previous occastions, following up a sold out showcase show at the Camden Underworld with a slick and professional performance. The mix of trance and metal isn't for everyone but the main room is rammed full of enthusiastic fans being beaten over the heads with pulsating trance one minute and heavy guitars the next. Silent Descent member DJ Kipster kept the night alive with a hard trance set into the early hours, while DJ 69 spun some classic rock and hair metal out on the acoustic stage, ending the Saturday with the likes of Winger, Warrant and Aerosmith blasting into the night sky.

There was no drop in quality or energy on the final day as TotalRock Battle For Bloodstock finalists Into Exile (7.5) again injected enough venom into the day with their feroucious metal vitriol to leave us all hanging on for dear life. Amber Room (8) haven't played alongside the likes of Feeder, Hundred Reasons and Athlete for nothing. Their soft, melody driven grunge rock sound recalls Pearl Jam at their most sensitive but with an unmistakable British edge. They deservedly draw one of the biggest cheers of the weekend while Brain Ache (7) make a welcome return to the live arena. Downstairs in the Lions Den Orphan Gears (7.5) pack out the whole room, the crowd drawn by a combination of some nicely crafted southern tinged hard rock and the fact the group is made up of several ex-members of local bands such as The Inbreds, Parallax and Equinox. Violation Complex (7.5) succeed in sending some older GNR fans running for their lives with an unstoppable barrage of titanic riffs and quality songs. The weekend is brought to a close by a typically chaotic performance from Guns 2 Roses (8). Anyone who has seen the real GNR (both the original band and the post 1996 Axl Rose collective) live knows you can't really be a GNR tribute act and just play a set of songs and go home. There has to be something a little more. Guns 2 Roses not only kick out excellent versions of all the classics like 'Welcome to the jungle', 'You could be mine', 'Nightrain' and 'Sweet child o mine' but also manage to mix in drunkeness, a seemingly evening long partnership with a pub regular who spends half the set on stage and the piss take of any crowd member who slightly resembles a celebrity. Slurred references to London hair metal club Decadence and stories of rock n roll mayhem follow but it's the music that does the business with 'Knockin on heavens door', 'Used to love her' and 'Paradise city' ensuring the first Red Roar Festival ends with an enormous bang.

Review by Alan Hicks

METAL BLADE NEWS

DARKNESS DYNAMITE upload new MySpace design and stream full album!

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DARKNESS DYNAMITE

French Metal heroes DARKNESS DYNAMITE have launched their new MySpace site and celebrate it with a full album stream of their critically acclaimed debut The Astonishing Fury Of Mankind! Click on the DARKNESS DYNAMITE myspace page to check out the new design, a video about the bands trip to the Bloodstock festival in the UK and to stream the album.

RADIO STATION

TotalRock Radio

Listen to the best rock, metal, goth and punk on the planet by tuning into to TotalRock Radio!

Go to the TotalRock Radio MP3 Autoplay to listen now.

There are plenty of shows to listen to but here is just an example:

MONDAY:

22:00-00:00

Katie P’s Really Good Rock Show live

Tune to Katie P’s Really Good Rock Show to hear everything from Anthrax to Alexisonfire, Gallows to Guns N’ Roses, Taking Back Sunday to Terror and Pantera to Priest plus plenty of witty banter.

TUESDAY:

21:00-23:00

iRock with Chris Arnold live

New Punk, Rock, Metal and Ska for the MySpace generation hosted by Chris Arnold.

WEDNESDAY:

18:00-21:00

Natasha's Batcave live

Natasha's weekly bite of all things Gothic.

THURSDAY:

09:00-12:00

Nix's Breakfast Bomb live

Rock n' Metal n' Glam n' Punk to explode your eardrums and start the day. Request line: 0871 2500 777 (National Rate).