Review: The Raven Age & Empye Islington Assemby Hall (November 30th 2025) Photographer – Phil Honley This was the last night of The Raven Age’s ‘The Monarchy Tour‘ celebrating a decade of the Raven King and to invite Empyre to open each night for them was an added bonus. I really like Empyre and drop […]
Having established their name as one of the finest in modern British metal, The Raven Age celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2025 and to mark the occasion the band kicked off their ‘Monarchy’ UK headline tour last night. Ahead of that they released their brand new single ‘Visions’. Lead singer Matt James comments, “’Visions‘ is […]
Review: Maid Of Stone Festival – Day 2 Mote Park, Maidstone (Saturday July 19th, 2025) Reviewer – Phil Honley Photographers – Phil Honley & Dan Mann And so we reach Day 2, are your feet sore yet? First up Jack J Hutchinson, a festival regular wherever you may be with, Glastonbury this year, perhaps Download […]
Empyre will join The Raven Age this November as special guests on the band’s ‘Monarchy Tour‘ marking a decade of The Raven King. The five-date UK run includes shows in Southampton, Leicester, Cardiff, Manchester and London. The band shared “After the success of our recent headline tour we’re incredibly excited to hit the road this November […]
Having established their name as one of the finest in modern British metal, The Raven Age celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2025 and to mark the occasion the band have announced a UK headline tour for November 2025 along with releasing the brand new single ‘Hangman’ today. The heavy yet melodic ‘Hangman’ examines fate as […]
Brighton’s biggest heavy music weekender Hammerdown Festival is back and taking over the city across Saturday July 19th and Sunday July 20th with its first ever two-stage set-up, hosted across Chalk and the brand-new underground venue Dust. Following a stacked 2024 edition at Concorde 2, the Hammerdown crew have levelled up, moving into the 850-cap venue […]
Steelhouse – the rock and metal festival on top of a Welsh mountain – has announced yet more bands to play the 2025 edition. The line-up consists of a wide range of artists from across the rock spectrum. This, the third round of announcements, features five artists who make their Steelhouse debuts, with one making […]
Maid of Stone 2025 is set to raise the bar for rock festivals in the UK, with an exciting line-up that includes Kentucky rock icons Black Stone Cherry, legendary guitarist Michael Schenker, and a host of other major international and homegrown acts. The festival will take place at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, on July […]
Iron Maiden will start their ‘Run For Your Lives‘ World Tour on May 27th next year in Budapest followed by 27 stadium, festival & arena shows around Europe. The tour marks 50 years since Steve Harris formed the band in late 1975 and, to celebrate this, Maiden fans are promised a very special set list, […]
Consistently proving themselves to be one of the finest names in modern British metal, The Raven Age continue this trend with the release of their acclaimed new album ‘Blood Omen‘ (review here) via Music For Nations/Sony Music today (July 7th). Listen/purchase the album here. To celebrate the release The Raven Age have unleashed the video for new single ‘Tears Of Stone’, an animated journey into a vast foreboding wilderness capturing the fight for security and freedom. Regarding the single guitarist George Harris says “‘Tears […]
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