Reaper Agency bring together another rarefied line-up of black metal to the masses in Manchester; it serves as a precursor to summer’s Fortress Festival and the newly announced Tynebound in September 2026.
Reaper return to Manchester with a Valentines weekend bill to fill the black hearts of many.
Winterfylleth sign with Napalm Records and announce their new album along with a brand new single, Heroes of a Hundred Fields.
We head back to BEC Arena for Damnation Festival 2025 featuring a slew of the best extreme metal acts around as the festival celebrates it’s 20th birthday.
Igorrr round out part one of their European jaunt with Master Boot Record and Imperial Triumphant in emphatic fashion. Manchester just about survives all out assault on it’s senses.
Portal and Impetuous Ritual return to UK shores and carry out a sonic evisceration on Manchester. Support comes from UK’s Abduction.
Damnation Festival complete their bumper 20th anniversary line-up with several new additions to the bill.
Agalloch headline day two of Fortress Festival; a day where every single band could be the band of the weekend.
Scarborough plays host to another sold out Fortress Festival, helping deliver the crème de la crème of extreme metal to UK shores.
Winterfylleth close out their UK tour with a hometown show in Manchester. In support are Wormwitch (Canada) and Bizarrekvlt (Norway).
Winterfylleth return with their latest epic full of soaring sky scraping songs. The Imperious Horizon is the bands 8th record and sees them in imperious form.
sunn o))) return to Manchester in their Shoshin (初心) Duo form. Shoshin being the Buddhist concept of learning with a “beginner’s mind,” surrendering preconceived notions in favour of openness and radical zeal.
The Infernal Sea deliver another massive amount of fierce and terrifying black metal from the Fenlands of England centred around The Witchfinder General.
2023 is in the books. So…on to 2024. There is an awful lot to look forward to. Here are a few picks of what we are looking forward to this year.
Austrian post metal masters, Harakiri For The Sky, land in Manchester with fellow Austrians Ellende and the black metal veterans, Fen.
