Dog Tired – Hordes X 2023 Interviews Our second stage headliners, Dog Tired, should be no strange sight to regular Hordes X attendees. This has been some year for the East Coast band. Not least of all due to across the board rave reviews of your latest album, The Red…

Catalysis – Hordes X 2023 Interviews One of a couple of local bands on this year’s Hordes X bill, Catalysis have truly been carving a name for themselves.  Currently they are neck deep in the releasing plans of a fresh album. Of late, however, they’ve been all about the shorter…

Forked Tongues: Opensight’s Grindhouse Cine-metal Many bands claim to be unique. London’s Opensight don’t even need to make such a statement.  Bringing together the sound and visuals of cult classic film and TV, with cultivated prog metal, this band is a one-off operation. Delving into spy stories, horror, hard-boiled cop…

Forked Tongues: Marc Urselli SteppenDoom Late in 2022, producer, Marc Urselli released SteppenDoom; an album which brings together thoat singing and doom metal… These may seem like strange bedfellows to some, but believe us, it works. Purposely designed to appeal to the sense of freedom inherent in both metal and…

Forked Tongues: Volcano X – Hordes X 2022 interviews Our final Hordes X 2022 interview goes out to another local legend, Volcano X! We’ve chosen to do something a little different for this one, though. Instead of our regular line of questioning, we’ve asked them for a creative breakdown of…

Forked Tongues: Shadow’s Far – Hordes X 2022 interviews Shadow’s Far are not only our furthest out booking for Hordes X this year – they’re our furthest ever! There’s not many Hordes X or even Slow Dragon Music followers who will know much about the Swiss scene. So, where exactly…

Forked Tongues: Nocturne Wulf & Extort – Hordes X 2022 interviews For this round of Hordes X 2022 interviews, we’re going East vs West, with two of the bands making their first appearance with us representing their neck of the woods. Extort go to bat on behalf of Edinburgh, while…

Forked Tongues: H8teball – Hordes X 2022 interviews At Hordes X, we keep saying “we don’t mess about when it comes to our opening bands”. Last year, H8teball were our introduction to the event, and we couldn’t have been happier! This is a band who bring a full-on, debauched show…

Forked Tongues: Catalysis – Hordes X 2022 interviews The Hordes X interviews continue, and stay towards the top of the bill. We’re now going for it with our main supports on our main stage, Dundee’s Catalysis. 2022 has been a year of accomplishments for them. They claimed the Scottish Metal…

Forked Tongues: Drekavac – Hordes X 2022 interviews We’re keeping it going with the Hordes X interviews, and this time we’re going right up to the top of our geographical pool of artists, to talk with Drekavac. The higher latitudes of Scotland have spawned some brutal extreme metal over the…