Armed with a bar-fridge of Monster, and a desire to party, we battled against various weather conditions and unforeseen difficulties amidst the standard festival chaos. This year, the annual event that is Rock the River presented a diverse selection of music across three stages, catering towards fans of metal, alternative, and electronic music
As is already well known, Cape Town's beloved festival, RAMfest will be returning to its original full weekend format in 2013. Furthermore, the next year will also see RAMfest introducing its first full weekend installment at the the Gauteng leg of the event tour. Since this website is dedicated to the metalheads of Africa, we're going to focus in on what this means to our community specifically and what can be expected from RAMfest in 2013.
Jacey was the rhythm guitarist of the symphonic blackened metal band Spectral Realm. To his band mates he was the guy who always spoke his mind no matter what. He thoroughly enjoyed playing guitar for Spectral Realm and had started work his own musical project, composing everything himself
Andrew Keith Brecher was a metal musician who hailed from the city of Durban. Drew, as he was affectionately known, originally joined local death metal band Creophagous as guitarist in 2006. After playing several shows and even appearing in a music video with the band, Drew took up the mantle of vocalist
Peter Saffy was the vocalist of the Bloemfontein-based band Ichor. He will always be remembered as a kind, fun-loving person, and a friend to just about everyone who ever met him. Geologist by day, work had him moving around a lot, and he couldn’t stay in Bloem. However, this did not keep him from doing what he loved, travelling 600 to 1 100 km over a weekend for band practice
The kings of political (in)correctness, …Ing are currently finishing work on their second full length album, IngQuisition. In true …Ing fashion, no stone is left unturned and the album features songs about Moses Sithole, the biological construction of a superior human race, Cape Flats gang violence, the end of the world and of course, Julius
Top Five Tuesday is where we ask a local musician to talk us through the five tracks that have been blowing their mind lately. Despite a crazy day in the office and Lord Doom completely forgetting to tend to this particular beast, Thomas Theron, the vocalist of progressive djent-heads Megalodon has rescued things with a timely email. Without further ado, here are his Top 5 while Lord Doom is sent to the shame corner!
It's Top Five Tuesday again where we ask a local musician to talk us through the five tracks that have been blowing their mind lately. This week it's Martin Kanja of the Kenyan deathcore band, Lust of a Dying Breed
Welcome to Top Five Tuesday where we ask a local musician to talk us through the five tracks that have been blowing their mind lately. Today we pick the brain of Malcolm McArb, guitarist for Axxon (and previously Grämlich) for his choice selection. So, I’ve had a few metal tracks in the forefront of my
