Live Review : Damnation Festival 2022 - "A Night Of Salvation" on November 4th 2022

Night of Salvation provides Damnation festival with an intimate opportunity to road-test its new home at the Bec Arena in deepest and darkest Trafford. Tonight, manages to be simultaneously low-key and auspicious. Low-key in the fact that there are only around 300 of us on site, but auspicious in terms of the quality and the prestige of the bill that they have managed to pull together. The closing two sets (Celeste’s performance of “Assassin(s)” and We Lost the Sea doing “Departure Songs” as their UK debut) are both world exclusives and according to both sets of artists unlikely to be repeated anytime soon.

FleshtivalsAuthor : Stewart Lucas7 November 2022Bowlers Exhibition CentreCeleste, We Lost The Sea, Ithaca, Pupil Slicer, Mastiff, Damnation Festival, 2022, Live Review, Stewart Lucas, Johann WierzbickiComment

Live Review : UK Tech-Fest on July 3rd 2022

It’s the final morning of the festival, but our day will still be filled with interviews, japes and even more tech-metal. It’s an early start today to make sure we don’t miss one of the bands we’ve been most eagerly awaiting, Arcaeon. Having reviewed these guys at a basement venue in Liverpool, I’m looking forward to seeing them flex their musical muscles on a much bigger stage. They don’t disappoint, with their glorious mix of djenty tech-metal.

FleshtivalsAuthor : Matt Fraser9 July 2022Newark ShowgroundUK Tech-Fest, 2022, Newark Showground, God Is An Astronaut, Novelists, Pupil Slicer, InMe, Martyr Defiled, Ohhms, No Consequence, Black Orchid Empire, Novena, ArcaeonComment