Winterfest in Review – Part 2
Yesterday Helldog gave his account of the first half of Winterfest '12 and today Brutalviking dives headfirst into the "main event" of the night - the headliners, Strident and Mind Assault
Yesterday Helldog gave his account of the first half of Winterfest '12 and today Brutalviking dives headfirst into the "main event" of the night - the headliners, Strident and Mind Assault
Winterfest '12 has come and gone and now it's time for clean up and consolidation. We'd like to issue a massive thank you to everyone who was there and for all the support we've received worldwide for the event. Now without further ado, we hand the keyboard to Helldog to give his account of the first half of the festival
In March this year, death metal fans in South Africa were treated with the second Detonation Tour hosted by Valgar Entertainment, featuring the Italian band Fleshgod Apocalypse alongside a slew of local extreme acts. At M4A, and at our WinterFest’12 event, we aim to keep the 2012 death metal momentum rolling by treating Cape Town
In the spirit of bringing you new and exciting music here on Metal4Africa.com, we are pleased to announce the release of the first ever Metal4Africa Sampler Showcase! Tailored to the imminent arrival of Winterfest '12, this seven track sampler contains music from almost all of the bands performing at the festival!
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
Cape Town’s monster “Showcase of African Metal” returns for its 12th installation since 2007. WinterFest’12, presented by yours truly, brings the heavy metal sound back to our residence in the beautiful Cape Winelands of South Africa. We look forward to seeing you at the Klein Libertas Theatre in Stellenbosch on Saturday 28 July. As usual,
Heavy metal supergroups are a strange creature. There are the fabled collaborations that never come to fruition, the painfully mediocre and the downright embarrassing, and yet they are still a force that exists in the global metal mindset. How fortunate then, that South Africa has spawned Bloodbeast who escape the trappings of the monicker and put out some damn good death metal
For a band who thinks “Humanity is a disease that deserves to be wiped out,” and whose opinion is that “Human nature can be an asshole,” Pretoria based death metallers, Bile of Man, have become an inspirational local band. The inspiration lies not in their steadfast opinions of humanity, but in their deep understanding of
“Comus, the Greek God of Revelry and Festive Mirth, son of Bacchus, lord of Chaos and Anarchy, join us on this carousel of carnivalesque debauchery. An occasion of over indulgence and excess awaits…” These are the words by which Emalyth’s first big event of 2012 was presented to us metal heads, necks itching for a