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Namibians Celebrate Night Of The Loving Dead
In the remote desert landscape of Namibia, land of the skeleton coast and rolling sand dunes, metal also lives! This Friday will see a Valentines with a twist as metalheads from Windhoek and surrounds...
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We’re Picking Up Momentum and Speed – Sacrifist Interview
If you’ve never heard of Sacrifist, or listened to any of their music, I have one question for you: Where the hell have you been? This five piece band has been around since 1996, they have four full...
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Betray The Emissary Are Stuck In ‘The Mires’
18-02-2014 has been the date imprinted on Betray The Emissary‘s Facebook page since Burning Tone Records announced not only the bands return to the scene after six years, but also welcoming Betray The...
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Mind Assault Show Their “True Force”
Image courtesy of Cabal Media ~ Mind Assault and set crew Cape Town-based Mind Assault displayed a huge burst of activity in the weeks building up to their South African appearances alongside USA’s...
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As The Palaces Burn: Screening in Cape Town and Johannesburg
Following Lamb Of God‘s recent tour to South Africa, RAM Touring and Flamedrop Productions have teamed up to present As The Palaces Burn as part of Flamedrop‘s annual X-Fest film festival. “As The...
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The Fallen Prophets Predict Misery
Cape Town’s death metal community has being taking in a breath of fresh air the last few months, with a couple of new bands emerging on the scene. As such acts as Suiderbees and Beeldenstorm are...
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Imperial Destruction Reminisce In The ‘Age Of Ra’
Imperial Destruction, as mentioned in another post earlier this week, are one of the bands spearheading Cape Town’s recent charge of new death metal acts. Others include the likes of Thread Of Omen...
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Terminatryx Cast A ‘Shadow’ With New Album
Six years have passed since Terminatryx released their debut self-titled album in 2008. The long anticipated follow-up finally emerges today, with hard copy and digital purchases now available for...
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A Melodic Death Metal Meltdown Awaits Cape Town In May 2014
Somerset West’s melodic / thrash / death metal band Mind Assault have entered their tenth year in the South African metal scene, kicking off 2014 by supporting Lamb Of God on their South African dates...
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South Africa’s Wacken Metal Battle: Judging criteria revealed
As July approaches its end, so does the legendary and mighty Wacken Open Air festival in Germany begin to loom on the horizon. Some South Africans make the pilgrimage each year, or just once, to be...
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Kataklysm return to South Africa, with Aborted, Epica in tow
Word has been buzzing via social media and on the streets for a few months now of the coming Witchfest metal festival in Pretoria next April. Already, a steady list of some of South Africa’s most...
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Arx release re-master of debut in build-up to next album
Pretoria thrash outfit Arx are working on their second album to be titled The Speed Of Dark and released in coming months. In the meantime, they have released a remastered version of their debut album...
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Junkyard Lipstick prepare farewell show for current vocalist
Junkyard Lipstick have delivered a heart-rending announcement today that their vocalist, the gregarious Ms Tanya Markowitsch, will be leaving the band after performing one final show this coming...
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Cape Town Metal Bands get behind Motorcycle Tragedy Benefit
A fundraiser has been declared in order to donate to the family of motorcyclist and metalhead Bertus “Banana”, who succumbed to his injuries following a serious collision in September. Five metal...
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South African Support for 2015 At The Gates Tour Announced
The year of 2015 is shaping up to be a raucously loud one with Witchdoctor Productions sweeping local metallers off their feet. Already announced in July, it is by now well-known that Sweden’s melodic...
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Witchfest Open Air finalizes international line-up for 2015
Legendary death metal titans Cannibal Corpse and technical death metal stalwarts Decapitated have been added to the biggest international metal line-up seen in Africa. Witchfest Open Air festival,...
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Infanteria welcomes new drummer after farewell
Infanteria, South African finalists at the Germany-hosted the Wacken Metal Battle for 2013, have bid farewell to their longtime drummer and co-founding member of the band. Rob Hall, the younger...
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M4A Editor presenting a Free Workshop in Gauteng
When a few players in the local industry put their heads together, cool things can happen! Such is the case with our team at M4A joining forces with the likes of Emalyth and Rumours Lounge – Bar –...
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Witchfest 2015 from Open Air to Urban: Summary
Let no South African or any other fall under the illusion that pioneering a new festival concept in this country is easy! Witchdoctor Productions, the same who have already hosted international metal...
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A Storm Approaches: The Beeldenstorm
Afrikaans is not a common language used in South African heavy metal, even despite so many participants within the genre and local musician community being Afrikaans-speaking at home. Whilst some bands...
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