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De Profundis, Cnoc An Tursa, and Owlcrusher Kick Off Hordes X 2026 Lineup Hordes X fest has just announced the first batch of bands appearing at its sixteenth edition!!! Taking place across the stages of Hidden and Music Hall Dundee, the oldest metal fest is Scotland, Hordes X, is back…
Feeding Frenzy: Melechesh – Sentinels Of Shamash Melechesh – Sentinels Of Shamash Release date: April 10th||Genre: Black metal||Label: Reigning Phoenix Music Amsterdam based Assyrian black metallers, Melchesh are on fire with their new EP, Sentinels of Shamash It’s been a while since Melechesh shed any new music. In fact,…
Hordes X 2026 The Beast in the East, Scotland’s oldest metal fest, Hordes X, is back for its SIXTEENTH edition!!! Featuring two days of stacked extreme metal and old school bands (plus some curveballs), the influential live platform returns to the twin venues of Hidden and Music Hall Dundee,…
M2TM Scotland 2026 – Grand Final The guest headliners for this year’s Scottish Metal 2 The Masses Grand Final have been announced, and the date approaches… M2TM is the award winning live initiative from the UK’s biggest independent metal festival, Bloodstock Open Air. A Mecca for the nation’s metalheads,…
Inferno Music Conference 2026 Pt.2 Slow Dragon Music returns for a second helping of heavy music industry talks in Oslo Following an excellent and inspiring first round of the Inferno Music Conference on the Thursday afternoon, we’re woken, washed, and filled with an epic breakfast. Ready for part two? Read…
Forked Tongues: Riket 2026 We all love a bit of proper Swedish death metal, and Riket are delivering the latest blast. The long-grinding four-piece just disinterred their first full sonic slab. 2026, this month. Coming through Black Lion Records, it is a beast, we can tell you! (In fact, we…
Inferno Music Conference 2026 Pt.1 To kick off the 20th anniversary of Inferno Music Festival and Conference, things start in style with the exclusive Delegate Mingle at SALT Art & Music. We grab a quick glimpse (and pint) in the new metal bar, Hellion, on Storgata, beforehand (with Mr Metal…
Forked Tongues: Inferno Pre-flight Chat The bags are over-packed, the security is queued, and somewhere between the obligatory airport pint and last-minute boarding panic, the pilgrimage has finally slapped us awake. With the Scottish semi-finals of Metal 2 The Masses fading into last night’s rear-view and the Grand Final looming…
Dog Tired and Ten Ton Slug – Japanese Tour Scottish riffmasters, Dog Tired, are headed to Japan, with Ireland’s Ten Ton Slug! Long time SDM partners in noise, Dog Tired, are teaming up with leading Irish purveyors of riff-filled sludge, Ten Ton Slug, for five dates in Japan this November!…
Feeding Frenzy: Riket – 2026 Riket – 2026 Release date: 10th April, 2026||Genre: Death metal||Label: Black Lion Records Long awaited, the debut full-length from Riket is finally here Proper. Swedish. Death metal. All sung in Swedish. A solid album’s worth of material from Riket may seem well overdue, but,…
