Metal Allegiance returns in March! Join us at the Black Heart for a night of death, black, thrash, rock and much more! DJ’s TBC FREE ENTRY / DOWNSTAIRS BAR / DJs 9PM-2AM METAL ALLEGIANCE is supported by: INTO THE PIT (METAL DEVASTATION RADIO) | HIGHSPEED HANGOVER PODCAST | RETRIBUTION ALIVE | SONIC REBELLION | METAL […]
Metal Allegiance returns in March! Join us at the Black Heart for a night of death, black, thrash, rock and much more! DJ’s Ronnie Rocks – (Top Cat Radio, Venture Radio) Wozza – (Metal Warriors) Black Meadow – (The Dev) Elric – (Metal Devastation Radio, Into The Pit) FREE ENTRY / DOWNSTAIRS BAR / DJs […]
Black metallers Stahlsarg return to Retribution Alive after 6 years to headline Helgi’s in April. More TBA! STAHLSARG Conceived in 2013, the UK black metal band Stahlsarg have travelled through the UK and Europe sharing stages alongside Endstille, Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult, Taake, Svarttjern, Sarkom & many more. Having released two albums worldwide, Stahlsarg’s latest offering […]
The first Metal Allegiance of the year hits the Black Heart in February and includes the ‘Dark Clouds Over Camden’ aftershow! Join us at the Black Heart for a night of death, black, thrash, rock and much more! DJ’s Elric – (Metal Devastation Radio, Into The Pit) Darren Smith – (Deadsoul Promotions / Stahlsarg) Hixxx […]
The final part of /Countdown 2024 sees me looking at the best gigs of the year. Some statistics for my gig-going in 2024. I went to 36 shows (each festival is counted by number of days – so Infest is three days, so counts for three shows), and saw 110 live sets. I saw 105 […]
Onto the third week of /Countdown/2024 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best albums of the year. As I’m sure I’ve explained before, I treat the “year” as 01-December to 30-November, to allow me a cut-off point, and to allow this to be done and dusted before Christmas so that I can […]
Metal Allegiance returns in December to wish you all a very… killer… Christmas! Join us at the Black Heart for a night of death, black, thrash, rock and much more! DJs TBA! FREE ENTRY / DOWNSTAIRS BAR / DJs 9PM-2AM METAL ALLEGIANCE is supported by: INTO THE PIT (METAL DEVASTATION RADIO) | HIGHSPEED HANGOVER PODCAST […]
Metal Allegiance welcomes the return of DJ LUCYFUR in November! More DJs TBC! Join us at the Black Heart for a night of death, black, thrash, rock and much more! DJ’s Ronnie Rocks – (Top Cat Radio, Venture Radio) Lucy Fur – (Heaven & Hell, Denim & Leather) Elric – (Metal Devastation Radio, Into The […]
Retribution Alive’s ‘Dark Clouds III’ (Dark Clouds Over Camden) casts its blackened shadows back over Camden in February. The Forge and the Dev will be your shelter, along with more tbc! VEHEMENT Extreme metal from England’s South Coast! https://www.facebook.com/officialvehement + more TBC Other Retribution Alive events: https://linktr.ee/lostparadisepromotions RETRIBUTION ALIVE is supported by: INTO THE PIT […]
In January the almighty KILL II THIS headline the Forge in Camden! They are joined by DIE KUR, performing at Retribution Alive for the 10th January in a row (yes… 10!!!), Kent alternative metallers DRONES and thrash deathsters LETHAL EVIL. More TBC! KILL II THIS This band never followed the crowd. Blending extreme metal with […]
Progressive/Technical death metal titans MITHRAS headline the Black Heart for Retribution Alive in December. Support comes from post-black metallers CAIRNS + guests. MITHRAS Open your eyes… Awaken your senses… Gaze carefully upon a bleak dimension of blastbeats, savage frequencies and shattering vocal expulsions. Enter the domain of Mithras, one of the UK’s most uncompromising and […]
Retribution Alive returns to the Dev in October! CROWGOD Crowgod are Heavy-Doom sludge style band from Brighton whom interjecting moments of beautiful clarity with controlled chaos at their live shows. Expect chonky riffs when we TUNE LOW AND STAY CROW. https://www.facebook.com/crowgodbtn LOWDOWN “…pinch harmonics fly around the room as if celebrating the legacy of ZZ […]
In September Retribution Alive returns to the birthplace of Iron Maiden, the Cart & Horses! Tickets: https://rb.gy/0thtbw SAWTICIDE Death/Thrash from North London. https://www.facebook.com/Sawticide ANCIENT RIVALRY Death metal from… the south! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076057517890 + more TBA Other Retribution Alive events: Tickets / Event: https://linktr.ee/lostparadisepromotions RETRIBUTION ALIVE is supported by: INTO THE PIT (METAL DEVASTATION RADIO) | HIGHSPEED […]
Metal Allegiance is back in August! DJs: VIC RATTLEHEAD – (High Voltage/Marlborough Head) SPEEDFREAK – (Helgi’s/Torture Chamber) Apologies, DJ Hixxx JP set is postponed. METAL ALLEGIANCE is supported by: INTO THE PIT (METAL DEVASTATION RADIO) | HIGHSPEED HANGOVER PODCAST | RETRIBUTION ALIVE | SONIC REBELLION | METAL WARRIORS | LOST PARADISE PROMOTIONS | HIGH VOLTAGE
We are back this Saturday. DJs playing a wide range of Rock & Metal DJs ELRIC (Metal Devastation Radio, Into The Pit) KYRIAN (Metal Warriors, Marlborough Head) VIC RATTLEHEAD (High Voltage, Joe’s Bar) METAL ALLEGIANCE is supported by: INTO THE PIT (METAL DEVASTATION RADIO) | HIGHSPEED HANGOVER PODCAST | RETRIBUTION ALIVE | SONIC REBELLION | […]
Metal Allegiance is back at the end of May and we’re celebrating DJ Elric’s… 50th! Ready to join the carnage…? DJs: LUCYFUR (Subterranean Hellnoise / Heaven & Hell) HIXXX – (Bloodstock / Retribution Alive) ELRIC – (Metal Devastation Radio / Into The Pit) SPEEDFREAK (Helgi’s) VIC RATTLEHEAD – (High Voltage / Joe’s Bar) METAL ALLEGIANCE […]
Retribution Alive returns to the Dev in June for a night of fast, happy and uplifting music. Bring your dancing shoes… THE CRAWLING “The stereotypical Doom/Death is appropriated through their execution. The way THE CRAWLING plays is much more interesting and thought out than most music I hear from modern doom/death acts. It sounds cleaner […]
Continuing the amodelofcontrol.com review of 2023 – and the twentieth year that I’ve done this – which this week turns attention to the best tracks of the year. Next week will be the wrap of the best albums of 2023.
Onto the third week of /Countdown/2021 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best albums of the year. As I’m sure I’ve explained before, I treat the “year” as 01-December to 30-November, to allow me a cut-off point, and to allow this to be done and dusted before Christmas so that I can […]
That what started out as a hastily-scheduled event to celebrate the life of Jamie Duffy has turned into a large, multi-day, multi-city festival over the past decade is something of wonder: but what is also great is how it has fostered a wider family of sorts, one of multiple groups that come together from all […]
