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The journey to Bloodstock ends here! 8 bands battle it out for a place at the best UK metal festival along with many more bands over the course of the day.

Metallers PANIC CELL headline the day as very special guests. Those who haven't seem them tear up stages alongside the likes of Testament, Children of Bodom and Kittie should not miss them!

Both SILENT DESCENT and DENOUNCE will be battling it out for prizes alongside the other 6 bands who qualified for the final but obviously cannot win the 'Bloodstock place' having played the festival last year.

The real battle of the day is between extreme metallers CARPATHIA, groove metallers SNAKEBITE, INTO EXILE who put in one of the best first heat performances, play-off winners SILAS, local venue crushers FALLING EMPIRE and also SHADOW ASPECT, REASONABLE DOUBT and COLT 44. The Bloodstock judge will pick one of these bands to grace the festival stage this summer.

The music does not stop there. The other stages see the best band not to qualify for the final SANCTORUM spread the metal gospel alongside everyones favourite all-dayer band ZOCALO. STANDING ON GIANTS, SISTER KETAMINE, VENXIA and Tier 2 Metal winners O.M.T also play.

DJ 69 and DJ LACUSTA maybe spinning some metal tunes between the bands.

Win a Bloodstock Ticket as guests of this event in a Super Draw! Ask at the event for details.

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Band Quest - Tier 1 Final - Metal at the Red Lion.

£3.00 for Loyalty Card Holders, £4.00 for those with flyers, £5.00 for everyone else.

What track would you really like to hear played by the DJs at Band Quest - Tier 1 Final - Metal? – Email us a request now!

Do you need a fix of alternative music now that all but the final Band Quest gigs are over?

Tonight WE WISH WE WERE GYPSIES, STRANGERS LANE, I WISH I WAS AN ASTRONAUT and BEN ATTWOOD all play.

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!

The best rock pub in London always has something special happening at the weekend. Here is what May has got in store for anyone who wishes to venture to London.

The Intrepid Fox's Calendar for May:

1 May 2009 21:00
TORTURE CHAMBER! CLASSIC HEAVY METAL - SPECIAL ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY- AEON ZEN @ UPSTAIRS BAR

2 May 2009 21:00
DIRTY BOMB! PURE GLAM ROCK!!!! DJ’S JOHNNY AND SKY (KING LIZARD) @ UPSTAIRS BAR

8 May 2009 21:00
DJ LOLA ’S BIRTHDAY! AND HER NIGHT WITH DANYSERRANO METAL DEMENTIA!!!! @ UPSTAIRS BAR

9 May 2009 21:00
DJ MAXX AND RICH JONES - ’3RD GENERATION NATION’ OLD SCHOOL PUNK

15 May 2009 21:00
DJ’S DEVILMAN & LUCYFUR - ’DENIM & LEATHER’ - ROCK!!!!

16 May 2009 21:00
DJ’S NINA AND ADAM LIGHTSPEED - ’HELL YEAH!’ - GLAM ROCK AND H

22 May 2009 21:00
DJ’S NINA AND KRISTOPHER C. - ROCK ROCK ROCK

23 May 2009 21:00
DJ ADAM LIGHTSPEED - ROCK N ROLL/PUNK/HARD ROCK

28 May 2009 20:00
’ASYLUM’ - ROCK/GOTHIC/METAL - DJ BILLIE

29 May 2009 21:00
’ALCOHOLIN’ ASS’ DJ’S LOLA AND GUEST STONER ROCK/METAL

30 May 2009 21:00
DJ SHELDON - ROCK AND METAL MIX

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 are available and can be ordered from the Bloodstock website - Order Bloodstock Open Air tickets.

Here are the bands confirmed so far:

• CARCASS
• ARCH ENEMY
• CRADLE OF FILTH
• BLIND GUARDIAN
• EUROPE
• AMON AMARTH
• SATYRICON
• SAXON
• GWAR
• KATATONIA
• TURISAS
• MUNICIPAL WASTE
• ENSLAVED
• KREATOR
• THE HAUNTED
• CANDLEMASS
• MOONSPELL
• BATTLELORE
• GIRLSCHOOL
• SABATON
• DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER
• EQUILIBRIUM
• MILLION DOLLAR RELOAD
• BEHOLDER
• PYTHIA
• CELESTY
• THE GREEN RIVER PROJECT
• VALLENBROSA
• INTERNAL CONFLICT
• THEY WILL RISE

Click the Link Below to view our VIP Packages Now!

www.bloodstock.uk.com/vip-camping.html

For more information on the festival visit the Bloodstock website.

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Thanks from the Team at http://www.unifiedsounds.co.uk

Sponsors:

DINGO JACKS MUSIC STORE | ELEPHANT MUSIC | ROADRUNNER RECORDS UK | MEDIA SOURCING | WHATEVERNEXT RECORDS

Partners:

BLOODSTOCK-METAL TO THE MASSES | ORE NET SERVICES | JIGGA JAM STUDIOS | BANANA ROAD STUDIOS | DEMELZA | HELLFIRE FESTIVAL

Support from:

BEXLEY COUNCIL | DARTFORD COUNCIL | HOLLOWEBDESIGN

WAIT FOR TOMORROW needs:

- Guitar player X 2

Need two good local guitarists that can write, have at least 2-3 years worth band/gigging experience. Touring asap lots of opportunities. Driving would be a bonus.

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

FUSED needs:

- Bassist

Contact the band here: fusedmusic@hotmail.co.uk.

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

NEONFLY needs:

- Drummer

Contact the band here: neonfly@hotmail.co.uk or www.myspace.com/neonflyband.

BAND WITH NO NAME YET needs:

- Singer

Contact the band here: John Riddle jr224a@yahoo.com.

DRUGDEALER CHEERLEADER needs:

- Bass player

Contact the band here: info@drugdealercheerleader.com or www.myspace.com/drugdealercheerleader.

BAND WITH NO NAME YET needs:

- Singer

Contact the band here: Nel on 07798640786 or nelcooper@hotmail.com or Joe on 07752519676.

CONQUEST need:

- Bass player

Contact this band here: leslie.clayden@ntlworld.com or ring 07832 235715.

BAND WITH NO NAME YET needs:

- Song writing guitarist

Contact the band here: www.myspace.com/ajddk.

UNTIL I BLEED need:

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

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

ROY STONE needs:

- All musicians

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

1) O.M.T
2) Odessa Step Sequence
3) Shattered Alliance
4) Dystolic
5) Callous
6) Lycan's Blood
7) Seven

The tier 2 metal final was basically an all-dayer made up of the seven bands who just missed out on a tier 1 metal final spot (and with it a route to Bloodstock), plus four guest acts.

First of the guests was Roy Stone (6/10) who must hold a record for the amount of all day events he has opened up for over the years! Some of his older solo slots have been a blur of 1000mph guitar riffs and nothing else. Today he continues his more recent 'song' orientated approach by singing with lead guitar, with help from backing tracks. The reason he makes it work is down to 25+ years of song writing experience with one of the tracks sounding like early 80s Ozzy.

Sanity Burns (7.5) have followed up early promise with a series of consistantly impressive displays. Their thrash assault has so much melody pulsating through the heart of each song it's impossible not to be pulled along by it all. With the aggressive but melody-driven vocals and some top musicianship Sanity Burns may just be one of the best new bands to have been part of Band Quest in 2009.

The tough task of following such a good performance falls to Storm The Gates (6.5) who struggle to match the intensity from those before them. Despite this they play to an ever increasing crowd who lap up their slice of metal.

The first 'Band Quest' band of the day is Callous (6.5), who's Bullet For My Valentine style metal is technically impressive but lacks a certain edge in the same way Bullet For My Valentine way do.... Next band Dystolic (6.5) tend to hammer the walls with their industrialised riffs, providing us with one of the most intense thirty minute sets of the day. The songs though lack any hooks which leaves some people battered but unfulfilled. Lycan's Blood (6.5) fare better today than their play-off performance by letting the music do the talking, but ultimately fail to capture the crowds hearts. Shattered Alliance (7) have collected a fare number of fans due to their three muscular Band Quest sets. Their metalcore approach has been one of the biggest and loudest parts of the competition; something nobody is complaining about. Seven (6) try to mix melodic traditional vocals with some nice technical metal and at times nearly hit the spot. The vocals almost touch 'Rush' territory at times but the songs and singing power lack the oomph you would expect from a 'tier 2' band. As with their play-off performance Odessa Step Sequence (7.5) blast through thirty minutes of unrelenting death metal and endear themselves to the crowd while doing so. Brighton metallers O.M.T (8.5) are in a different league today and put on a display of superb musicianship, play some great songs and even get away with some cheesy Hammerfall moves on stage. Confident, solid, melodic, brutal - superb!

It was left to special guests Without Remorse (8) to finish off the day. The original venue stompers brushed away the cobwebs, welcomed a new drummer and reclaimed their stomping trophy with a powerful onslaught of aggressive thumping metal.

Now attention turns to next weeks Tier 1 final. See you all there!

Review by Alan Hicks

Please check out the latest Metal Blade podcast. This time it features US tech thrashers BELIEVER and Dutch Death Metal commando GOD DETHRONED with music, interviews and more.

Their latest albums, BELIEVER's 'Gabriel' and GOD DETHRONED's 'Passiondale', were both released on Metal Blade Records last month.

Please go to www.metalblade.de/index.php?mod=media to check out some tunes!

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