Crow Black Sky surfaced in the Cape Town live metal circuit in 2010, and released their acclaimed debut album Pantheion in 2011. Although the band has not been known to appear live since the release of this album, they are now making a much anticipated return to the stage to launch their newly remastered Pantheion
Agro from Johannesburg are one of the countries longest-standing metal bands, rivaled only in their own city by SacriFist, also formed in 1993 and still going strong today. This means that many a young metal head, freshly legal and now hitting up the local circuit were not yet born when this band started playing shows!
This year’s Winterfest was another great success by the Metal4Africa team for the Cape Town scene. Upon arriving already fuelled by an excited party bus full of metal fans; amped to bang some heads. Alcohol seeping into the veins, it was straight into the action. Catching up with friends not often seen and holding beer
The 1st April 2011 saw Bile of Man in Cape Town, debuting their EP, “Dystopian Order: The Age of Detritus” in 2011, on their national tour across South-Africa, throughout Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Cape Town, Johannesburg, and all around Gauteng. Louis Young tells us about his experience at the Bile show in R.O.A.R, Observatory, Cape Town. There
www.metal4africa.com has released details of the line-up for their annual winter-time event coming up on 30 July, dubbed this year as WinterFest’11. WinterFest is the sister festival to the annual SummerFest which takes place usually at the end of January. Established in 2007, this will be the 10th day festival event hosted by Metal4Africa in
Longstanding Cape Town metal outfit, Reverse the Sands announced the end of the band with the following post to their Facebook page earlier today: It is with great sadness that we announce that Reverse the Sands will be coming to an end this Saturday. We will be playing our last show ever at ROAR this
Another night at Gandalf’s and a multi-genred line up at R.O.A.R made for an interesting evening and a refreshing break from the predominantly death metal events. Although not as well attended as the Friday night Bile of Man EP tour launch, there was still support for the bands. Butchered, a three piece death metal band,
On the 13th of December, Cape Town progressive metal band Crow Black Sky launched their debut album, Pantheion. Scott Miller and Adrian Pettit descended upon ROAR in Observatory and came back with the following report. The day began like any other during the vegetative festive season, at 4:00 in the afternoon of course. Stirring from
Juggernaught recently bulldozed Cape Town on three dates between the 18th and 20th of November 2010, playing first at ROAR in Observatory and then Mercury Live, and closing their tour off at Muzone in Brackenfell. Wayne Smith was in the pit to experience their signature "man rock" sound
Pretoria-based rock 'n' roll mountain men will be returning to the Mother City this week. Join the good times with Juggernaught, teaming up alongside some of Cape Town's finest as they sack the city. See details here
