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 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!
The very reason for www.metal4africa.com existing and our biggest goal is that we want to see music made in Africa to take seed in international market places. We’re very impressed to see one young Cape Town band beginning to do just that within less than two years of their own existence. Featured at our own
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,
Upon hearing about a new venue opening its doors to the metal hordes in the Cape Town area, M4A’s Darkfiend did the rounds to suss it out, and to see some new bands as yet unknown to M4A’s collective ears. After seeing that our writer for this event would not make it, I wolfed down
We set out from Bellville in the heat of day on Friday. Odd, I know, but hell, the gates opened on Friday, and we had nothing keeping us home. When we arrived however, we were greeted by an insane amount of cars. The organizers had a slick running check-in / ticketing station outside the festival
The 2011/2012 festival season is creeping upon us and while some have already rocked the daisies, that doesn’t sound very metal. Fortunately there is plenty of metal headed our way, with our own Metal4Africa Summerfest in the first quarter of the year. In the mean time, Rock the River SA is just around the corner
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
