At last the festive season has rolled around with all its excess, freebies, and partying. Whether is be Christmas, Hannukah, Saturnalia, yule, some other denominational festival or an atheist winter gift giving period, the folks here at Necromag wish you a good one and bid you a weeks worth of hard partying into the new [...]
Archive for December, 2010
The official line-up of UK headliners for the touring festival Sonisphere reached a whole new level with the announcement that the BIG FOUR were coming to Knebworth in 2011.
This latest announcement sees the big four bands of the early thrash scene, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax all play together on the same stage for the first time in the UK.
As the year draws to a close the popular Belgian electronic music label Alfa Matrix are in a generous mood.
In addition to bundling a free compilation cd with pre-orders made over the festive season, Alfa Matrix this week made 5 tracks available for free download.
Nemacon’s first precon event of their 2011 run of events was a roaring success with wall to wall revelers and cosplayers. The event took place on the afternoon of the 4th November, the Sunday following Halloween due to a number technical issues, but still managed to maintain a spooky atmosphere. Despite being marred by electrical [...]
Faderhead is a big personality making outstanding EBM, so I had high hopes for the act straddling the top of this three band bill. Opening with their driving track Disorder, support act Outsight suggested that we should ‘consider this an icebreaker’. Disorder is a lyric heavy track, with big bass beats before a gritty breakdown [...]
The times of fury have arrived in shape of Hocico’s latest slab of coarse EBM. While in the past the Mexican duo have been pioneers in the aggrotech genre a once distinctive sound has now saturated the scene and made it difficult for the innovators to seem original. The delightfully evil I Want To Go [...]
Download Festival organisers have recently confirmed that the Grammy award winning US-Armenian rock group System Of A Down, who are are reuniting next year, are to headline the 2011 Download Festival, which will take place 10-12 June at Donington Park as part of a series of live dates.
April 2011 Resistanz International Industrial Music Festival sees over 14 bands, International Dj’s, stalls and more descend on the legendary Sheffield venue the Corporation. The immense bill of bands is starting to take shape with Suicide Commando, Covenant, Caustic, C/A/T in their first ever UK performance.
