Bloodstock Festival New Blood Stage Feature Part 2 

In this feature I shall be covering five more bands that are performing on the New Blood stage at Bloodstock Open Air 2016. Our previous list can be seen to the left of this piece should you wish to check out the previous five bands. I’d recommend you should anyway… 

The bios shall be brief as this is all about checking out each bands music. That’s what will decide if you wish to possibly check them out at the festival itself this August. You may not have heard of a lot of these bands, but wasn’t Mastodon etc a band you never heard of at one point! 
Enough talk, lets get down to business! 

Vehement

Vehement play Black/extreme metal and hail from the South Coast of England. Full of everything that makes a great Black metal band. Gnarling vocals, great drumming and the rest! 
Check out “Oceans Of Rot” here! 

Burning The Dream 

Burning The Dream hail from Glasgow and play their own unique blend of progressive metal with a metalcore/Lamb Of God edge. 
Check out “Stongbow Headache” here! 

Triverse Massacre

Triverse Massacre are from Carlisle and play their own brand of Groove/Death/Thrash Metal. Leaning more in a Death Metal direction though and full of growl, grunt and scream vocals. 
Check out “Exhale Betrayal” here!

Vendetta 

Vendetta hail from Peterborough and play stamping Hardcore that’s full of energy. This is great stuff! 
Check out their live recording of “Propaganda” here!  

Bearfist

Bearfist are from Chelmsford. They play fist pounding hardcore/metal with a technical edge and full of riffs! 
Check out their Live video here that includes “I Can’t Breathe,” “Not Quite A Murder” & “War Has Begun”

That’s the second five bands covered in this line of feature. I strongly suggest checking all the bands out, and following our features. Five bands at a time, and who knows? You could find your new favourite band!

Bloodstock 2016 Tickets available at this link! BOA Tickets

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Bloodstock Festival New Blood Stage Feature Part 1

In this feature I shall be covering five bands that are set to perform on the New Blood stage at Bloodstock Festival 2016. All gained their spot by winning a particular Metal To The Masses Competition. 
The bios shall be very brief, but this is all about checking out each bands music. That’s what will decide if you wish to possibly check them out at the festival itself this August. You may not have heard of a lot of these bands, but wasn’t Mastodon etc a band you never heard of at one point! 
Enough talk, lets get down to business! 

Famyne

Canterbury based Famyne play psychedelic doom that is full of sludge-laden riffs and haunting vocals. Frontman Tom Vane also has a very powerful range. 
Check out “The Forgotten” here! 

Husk

 

West Midlands based Husk are very hard to describe. There’s elements of Black Metal, Prog, Death, Groove. There’s just so much going on here. It doesn’t sound like it would work on paper, but it really does! 
Check out “Plague Of Man” here! 

Art Of Deception 

Art Of Deception hail from Norway. They play crunching melodic death metal. Full of duelling guitars, riffs and solos. This band are really really good! 
Check out “Killing” here! 

The Crawling 

Lisburn based The Crawling play slow death metal that is very much in the vein of early Paradise Lost. Full of chugging riffs and all that goodness! 
Check out “End Of Rope” here! 

Ten Ton Slug 

Galway based Ten Ton Slug play their own unique band of sludge groove metal with added gutteral/scream vocals. 
Check out “Godes Andsaca” here! 

That’s the first five bands covered in this line of features. I strongly suggest checking all the bands out and following our features. Five bands at a time, and who knows? You could find your new favourite band! 

Bloodstock 2016 Tickets available at this link! BOA Tickets

Follow us here on Facebook! Burning Metal

Subsist 

Carlow based Subsist have been very quite in the recent times. That’s all set to change though! I was informed by two band members at the Metal To The Masses final that they have a new EP in the works and hyped for what they have coming! 
The lads have already supported Chelsea Grin and Evil Scarecrow. To include members who were previously in other bands.  Put that all together and all have learned the lessons needed to succeed as a band and improve. 
Certain members were busy with college stuff and ensuring their education instead of chasing a pipe dream. Which will also stand to them as you always need a plan A,B,C and D in this life… 
They’re getting ready to come back and hit it hard so get to know this band. Great potential here and their first single proved that. Considering they’re hyped about their new material and ready to have a right go at it. I’d say these lads will have a good run if all works out for them. 

Check out “The Night After” here. Remember, this is an older song and their next output shall be better! 

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Tom DeLonge Now Focusing On Imminent Alien Invasion Prevention!

Tom DeLonge left Blink 182 last year and it wasn’t for reasons you might think! Aka they’re shite and irrelevant. No, the reasoning behind was Blink were too focused on All The Small Things and not focusing on the fact we are in danger from the real Enema Of The State! 
He has now dedicated himself to studying UFO’s as he believes it’s a matter of national security. He claims to have 10 people that he’s working with that are at the highest levels of the Department of Defense and NASA and the military. Tin foil hats all in tow… 

Lets look at all this though! It’s 2016. Independence Day 2 is coming with an original cast member that died in the first film and no sign of Will Smith. Blink 182 are releasing their 7th album. Donald Trump is running for president. It’s like the 90’s most irrelevant shite is all making a comeback! Maybe this is the final straw for the Aliens? 
July 4th is coming! Get onto Will Smith and offer him a Hancock sequel. Pay people to go and see Bad Boys 3. Whatever it takes to get him onbaord! Jeff Goldblum is at the ready and Tom Delonge in leading the campaign! 
As a public service announcement, I am sharing this information with you! Not many have watched “Mars Attacks” and that film hold the key to defending ourselves from an Alien invasion. When the song Slim Whitman – Indian Love Call is played. It causes their heads to explode! I am linking the song here so you have access to this on July 4th or whenever the Aliens attack. 

Tom also claims to know things he can’t talk about. Which automatically back up all his claims and validates everything he says. The Aliens are coming! We Must Prepare! 

Horrenda 

Dublin based Horrenda started as an experimental black metal solo project of Darragh “Outis” O’Connor in 2015. Most of the writing was done while playing with Theories Divide in which he split from in 2015, although still playing with Axial Symmetry and Saint Slaughter. The man doesn’t stop! 
In September 2015, Darragh released the project’s first two releases “Ecthra” and “Bellum Civile”.  He played bass, guitars, keys and did the vocals on all the demo tracks.Very soon after these releases dropped on Bandcamp, Horrenda were asked to be a part of the Wulfrune Worxwil/Vinland Wulf Warfield French label. Wulfrune Worxwil put out special cassette editions of “Ecthra” and “Bellum Civile” in November 2015.
In 2016, Horrenda stepped it up a notch and became and full live band focused on faster heavier material for their live sound. Darragh changed the tone of the band into something more akin to a mix of Mayhem, Darkthrone and the genre of Black gaze. Covering topics such as Irish mythology, politics and Irish history.
The project found a drummer (and later bassist) in Daragh “Créachta” Kenny (MORALITY, SVET KANT). Max “Urât” Bevan (EMETOPHILE and KOMANA) joined as a studio member. In April 2016, the outfit was completed with Arron “Nomad” O’ Shaughnessy on  Lead Vocals.
Horrenda were then signed to Depressive Illusions Records in 2016 and they released the “Neronian Times” demo in April 2016.
That’s their already impressive bio after such a short space of time. It’s also great to see a down and dirty Black metal band appearing here in Ireland. It’s a genre that’s very rare here now in many regards. This type of music was a trend in the 90’s, so they’re clearly doing it for the love of the music and have played quite a few gigs this year in Dublin already. 
If you’re a fan of old school Black metal? You’re going to love this band! The genre has became very melodic I suppose in many regards and this sound is quite unique now to hear from a young band. 

Check out EYE here. This is a high quality live recording and showcases their horrible nasty sound. But in the best possible way! 

Follow the band here on Facebook! Horrenda

Download link to their Bandcamp page! 
https://horrenda.bandcamp.com/album/neronian-times

Dream Awake 

I was introduced to Belfast based Post Hardcore band Dream Awake a few days ago. Since then I’ve crash coursed their time as a band since 2014. 
Well, what do I think? I’m pretty damn impressed! This band are constantly improving and honing their craft at a rapid rate. Their latest offering “Summit” has the usual chugging riffs you would expect of a band of their genre, but they also have a great sense of melody in their lead guitar and the vocals to back in up! The band really make use of the fact they have two vocalists and use each to their absolute strengths. 
I reckon this band have an extremely bright future ahead of them. They have massive potential and their constant improvement in output only adds more fuel to that notion. 
The UK would love this band and I hope they’re sending “Summit” to the Fresh Blood radio show on Kerrang and really attacking the UK based groups online! This island of ours is limited, but with the sound this band have they really should start sending it anywhere they can across the pond. 

Check out “Summit” here and see why I reckon these lads are really on the right track and bigger things are coming! 

Follow them on Facebook here: Dream Awake