Merzbow Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Pupil Slicer and Mastiff on the Sophie Lancaster stage should be fun, great modern hardcore acts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mal the Glorious Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 For me, Mercyful Fate would be the only "must watch" on the Saturday. I'd probably watch Dimmu Borgir for old times sake but otherwise that's a very weak lineup for the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 As @MerzbowĀ mentioned both Pupil Slicer and Mastiff will be worth watching, Malevolence who are headlining the Sophie stage that night also seem to be qgaining some traction. Over on the main stage, Lorna Shore have got a new vocalist so might be worth a go, while Sacred Reich will bring some old school vibes. The last time Dimmu Borgir played they were plagued with sound problems to the point that they were practically unwatchable. If I were going it would be a toss up between watching them or Samael. Mercyful Fate though are the must see of the dayĀ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Avatar put on a great live show, too, if you're into the goofier Scandinavian stylings that don't take themselves too seriously.Ā I'd check out Sleep Token if you didn't at Download, as well. They didn't strike me as all that on record but seeing them in the tent last week they sounded really fresh and hypnotic.Ā Four day Download next year, then? The general thinking is that it's going to be two nights of Metallica, a new headliner (Bring Me The Horizon, perhaps) and a recent headliner. It was loads of fun this year.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 Ā Volbeat, Skindred and Napalm Death a week before Christmas? Yes please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted June 27, 2022 Author Paid Members Share Posted June 27, 2022 Hopefully get to that Cardiff date, I wouldn't have minded seeing Bad Wolves on the bill as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 Also announced today, Mastiff are heading on their first headline tour. Iāve just picked up a ticket for the Hull date for Ā£8! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_gordo Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Mastiff are quality live, we've played with them a couple of times and they're great lads too. That Star & Grater show should be fucking vicious. Played with Battalions in there recently and the floor felt like it was going to give way so fuck knows what it'll be like with those boys stomping around. Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 I'll see them at Dead Wax although I don't like the venue, it used to be a great little working class pub that'd put on a tonne of antifascist gigs but then got gentrified like most of Digbeth. Thank fuck Centrala is still around there and getting even more shows these days, I think I've been to six in the past month or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Merzbow said: I'll see them at Dead Wax although I don't like the venue, it used to be a great little working class pub that'd put on a tonne of antifascist gigs but then got gentrified like most of Digbeth. Thank fuck Centrala is still around there and getting even more shows these days, I think I've been to six in the past month or so. I like Dead Wax. Good little pub.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Is the Star & Garter an old peoples home? Or have I got that massively wrong.Ā That would be wicked if it is.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 36 minutes ago, SuperBacon said: Is the Star & Garter an old peoples home? Or have I got that massively wrong.Ā That would be wicked if it is.Ā You have that wrong.Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 3 hours ago, Keith Houchen said: You have that wrong.Ā Think I'm confusing it with the Royal Star and Garter which was a convalescence hospital in Richmond, sort of like the kind they had for the Chelsea pensioners. Thought it might be a chain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Saw VLTIMAS at Corporation in Sheffield last night. I head down there to get there for about 15 minutes before the doors opened, thinking a queue will have formed but itās not a huge place so it wonāt be a massive queue.Ā I get there, no-one is outside the venue. Has it been moved? Cancelled entirely? A quick on the bandās socials show nothing of the sort so I figure Iāll just have a sit down opposite and see what happens.Ā Some do turn up as the doors open on time to let in all 9 of us. As we show our tickets weāre informed that the show āwill be happening in the smaller room tonightā. Now granted I havenāt been to Corporation for nearly 11 years, but I didnāt even know it had a smaller room as what is apparently the main isnāt exactly massive. Two local support acts. Terminal Sun, who arenāt bad but nothing spectacular either, but the other was a band named Baāal. They were fucking phenomenal. Being a local band and me from out of town I had no idea what they were going to be, but to look at them I never expected them to come out with what they did, which is apparently classed as āPost Blackened Metalā. Iām not usually one for buzzwords or just plain making up entire sub genes, but whatever you want to classify them as, go check them out. If anyone has heard Hidden Mothers, itās a similar sound to that. Then it was VLTIMAS. By the time they come on, there canāt be anymore than 50 in attendance, a shockingly low turnout considering itās David Vincent doing death metal. He isnāt doing Morbid Angel material (he does that when touring I Am Morbid), but itās David fucking Vincent, and the VLTIMAS album is really fucking good, how are there only this many people here. The crowd that did turn up were really weird all night as well. Iād gone on my own and donāt tend to make noise anyway, I just like to listen and applaud what I like, but this crowd were giving nothing when David was doing bits between songs. Absolute silence at times. Even when the band did the āleave before coming back for the encoreā bit, nothing. The band eventually come back after what felt like a lengthy gap, and played one last song. Theyāve been playing a two song song encore for the rest of the tour (throwing in an Alice Cooper cover before the last song), but that got dropped as David left almost instantly when it finished, heād clearly had enough and just wanted to get out of there. Having said all of that (and sorry if Iāve rambled) the band sounded great and played really well, but the few people that had turned up gave them absolutely nothing. Such a strange night in hindsightĀ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 11 years since they last performed together and they haven't skipped a beat. Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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