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Dog Tired – Hordes X 2023 Interviews

Dog Tired - Hordes X 2023 Interviews

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…

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Catalysis – Hordes X 2023 Interviews

Catalysis – Hordes X 2023 Interviews - Photo credit Mark Steppie

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…

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Hellripper – Hordes X 2023 Interviews

Hellripper - Hordes X 2023 Interviews

Hellripper – Hordes X 2023 Interviews We get down to the meat and gristle with this year’s Hordes X headliner, one man extreme metal project, Hellripper. It’s surely to be expected that most people reading this will already know of Hellripper. They’ve been treading the boards for many a year…

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Psygnosis streaming entire new album!

Dragon Fire: Psygnosis streaming entire new album! In somewhat of a prog metal delight, French metal quartet, Psygnosis, are currently streaming their new album in full. Dipping into the band’s YouTube channel, we can already tell you, this is some pretty impressive stuff. It’s been five years since they went…

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Feeding Frenzy: Marduk, Shining, & more – 11||09||23

Feeding Frenzy: Marduk, Shining, & more - 11||09||23

Feeding Frenzy: Marduk, Shining, & more – 11||09||23 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***  Antimozdebeast – Land of Nod (album) Antimozdebeast’s “immersive heavy music laced with synths,…

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UPDATED: Hordes X 2023

Full Hordes X 2023 Lineup Announced

UPDATED: Hordes X 2023 It’s here! The full list of bands for the 2023 edition of Hordes X is live! And what an insane billing it is! The top billing goes, yet again, to an extreme metal act, and once more, it’s a home grown talent! Please welcome Alba’s ultimate…

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Dragon Fire: 02||09||23

Dragon Fire: 04||08||24

Dragon Fire 02||09||23 The legendary Dragon Fire scours through the Earth once more, unearthing the latest campfire tales.  Columbarium – Redemption First up today is the track Redemption by Belgians Columbarium. Taken from their upcoming, September 29th, Argonauta Records album, The Morbidious One, this is total doom filth! If this track moved…

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Opensight’s Grindhouse Cine-metal (interview)

Opensight's Grindhouse Cine-metal

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…

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Opensight To Release Mondo Fiction: The Director’s Cut

Opensight - Mondo Fiction: The Director's Cut

Dragon Fire: Opensight To Release Mondo Fiction: The Director’s Cut London based prog-metallers, Opensight are re-issuing their 2022 full-length, Mondo Fiction, but with added extras. Released last year, the album was heralded as “a masterpiece of creativity” by press, including Powerplay Rock And Metal Magazine to Greek Rebels, Worship Metal to…

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Hordes X 2023

Hordes X 2023

Hordes X 2023 The beast awakens! Preparations for Slow Dragon Music’s metal calendar highlight are in full swing, and it’s gonna be a monster! For those of you new to the Hordes X battle camp, it is a yearly, live showcase of all things heavy! First taking place in 2010,…

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