Author: Team Uber

The Devil Wears Prada/Kingdom Of Giants/Ocean Grove/SENNA – Haarlem, Patronaat – 5 February 2025

Stacked, absolutely fucking stacked. There is legitimately no other way to describe this tour’s lineup. The Devil Wears Prada fully capitalise on their jumps in popularity with another headline stomp around Europe that arguably moves them out of the shadow of supporting Landmvrks last year and into similarly sized venues in their own right. Not only that but American synthy metalcore outfit Kingdom Of Giants, Aussies Ocean Grove and tied off with sparkly metal band, SENNA. What an unreal selection!

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Winterfylleth/Domhain – Belfast, Voodoo – 2 February 2025

Sure, what else would you be doing on a dark, blackened Sunday evening in the dark, blackened side streets of a dark, blackened city but sitting upstairs in a dark, blackened venue enjoying some dark, blackened heavy metal? Not much, really… which is why Monk uncurled himself from his sleeping bag under the bench in the corner – well, he did feel like he’d been living here for the weekend, as this was his third gig here in as many nights – dusted down his battered leather jacket, hit the bar to drain the remains of last night’s left over JD and adopted his usual pose beside the sound desk for what promised to be a special collision of black metal forces with one of the Celtic giants of the genre riding into battle with his English counterparts…

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Confess ‘Destination Addiction’ (EVIN Productions)

Quite possibly taking their name from a word equally possibly screamed at them hundreds if not thousands of times over – both frontman Nikan Khosravi and DJ Arash Ilkhani were arrested by the notorious Iranian Revolutionary Guards and detained for more than almost two years, including three months in solitary confinement, on charges of blasphemy and propaganda against the state before fleeing the country and ultimately seeking political asylum in their now adopted homeland of Norway (having subsequently been sentenced to a combined total of 14 and a half years in prison, plus 74 lashes for the frontman) – this is perhaps one band no better placed to ask the question “what happens when you’ve survived things that no-one should have to?”

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