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…

Forked Tongues: Aeons – Hordes X 2022 interviews Metal spawns in the strangest of places. At Slow Dragon Music we love to interact with artists from such places; Scotland based – global mindset. This year, Hordes sees it’s debut of Aeons, from The Isle Of Man. This progressive metal band…

Feeding Frenzy: Heilung, Revocation, & more – 08||09||22 Welcome to Slow Dragon Music‘s review Feeding Frenzy, where we go snapping and snarling through notable recent and upcoming releases. ***we like to arrange our meals in alphabetical order***  Bloodbath – Survival Of The Sickest (album) “Old School Death Metal Will Never…

Forked Tongues: Bloodthread – Hordes X 2022 interviews Often times, bands don’t just play Hordes X. They become family. And just like family, it doesn’t matter how much time passes between get-togethers, they’re still part of your world. This much can certainly be said for Tony Mitchell and his tech-death outfit…

Forked Tongues: Karybdis – Hordes X 2022 interviews The Hordes X 2022 interviews continue, and we’re sticking at the top this round, with our Stage 2 headliners, Karybdis. Hailing from London, they self-describe as melodic death metal, but don’t let that lead you to think of softer sounds. This is…

Forked Tongues: Saor: Hordes X 2022 interviews We’re going straight from the bottom to the top, with our next round of Hordes X interviews. Last time, we rounded up the openers of both stages, Primitive Vices & Alpha Signal. This time, we catch up with the creative mastermind behind our…

Forked Tongues: Alpha Signal – Primitive Vices: Hordes X 2022 interviews At Hordes X, we like to start strong. We make no secret of the fact that we have great pride in our openers, and 2022 is no different. The bands kicking off both our stages are notably something special,…

Hordes X Outreach 2022 Since rebranding from Hordes Of Belial, Hordes X has been used as the centre point of a few extra Scottish dates for some of the bands appearing. We call these the “Outreach shows”. The concept is that, when a band comes from other regions to play…