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Junkyard Lipstick Announce Album Launch and a New Single
Cape Town’s sassy-thrashy quartet, Junkyard Lipstick, have announced the release of a second single off their forthcoming album Hellbent. This release also heralds a date for their album launch: 29...
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Heavy Metal From Cape To Cairo
Cecil John Rhodes, colonial bastard that he was, fantasized about creating a railway linking “The Cape to Cairo” – a holy grail of trans-continental travel that back in the 19th century would have been...
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“We’re the first band from Egypt to visit South Africa.”– Anarchy Interview
It’s a quiet, winter evening in Observatory, Cape Town and touring bands Maximum Carnage from Pretoria and Anarchy all the way from Cairo in Egypt have just arrived for the second leg of their South...
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Blitzkrieg: Gig Review of 28 Sep 2013 @ ROAR
There had been quite an air of anticipation building up over the weeks prior to Blitzkrieg, the first self-hosted gig by Burning Tone Records who first made their presence known in Cape Town at the...
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There’s a Four Little Pigs Joke In Here Somewhere
Pretoria-based Boargazm have been beating a route across South Africa’s gig circuit in recent weeks, and show no sign of relenting. Since their Cape Town debut in December 2012 accompanying Ecuador’s...
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To Revelate An Uprising
A new buzz-word is hitting hit the streets in Cape Town: Revelate. As in Revelate Entertainment! This is an as yet unproven, but promising looking, brand aiming to join the fight in opening windows of...
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A Melodic Death Metal Meltdown Awaits Cape Town In May 2014
Somerset West’s melodic / thrash / death metal band Mind Assault have entered their tenth year in the South African metal scene, kicking off 2014 by supporting Lamb Of God on their South African dates...
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2014 Wacken Metal Battle: South Africa in 3, 2, 1…
It has arrived! Tomorrow (Friday 07 June) see’s the kick-off of South Africa’s second year of participation in the international Wacken Metal Battle, facilitated locally by MK Ondergrond. The...
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Local venue offers R5000 cash to one local metal band!
Beloved to Cape Town metalheads is their “last stand” position at 299 Lower Main Road, Observatory. Known either as Gandalfs or ROAR, depending on whether one ascends the stairs to the upper level or...
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Boargazm – The Baconing Review
Are you ready for breakfast?! The long awaited second helping of Boargazm has arrived. Fresh off the presses, I got a chance to have a listen to the new work by this incredibly avant-garde,...
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Zombies Ate My Girlfriend offer preview of Forthcoming Album
Zombies Ate My Girlfriend will be appearing at metal4africa’s SummerFest’15 on 31 January, just a few weeks before their official Retrocide album launch on 28 February at ROAR near Cape Town. To mark...
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Zero Stroke leak EP prior to live launch
Zero Stroke from Cape Town are set to join massing legions of South African progsters who are forming up a frontline in the local live scene. Akin – in spirit if not in sound – to the likes of Poverty...
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Zombies Ate My Girlfriend: launch promo video
One of the most anticipated releases for the first quarter in Cape Town has to be Retrocide from Zombies Ate My Girlfriend. The band, having recently performed as one of the co-headliners at...
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Maximum Carnage live in Cape Town, March 2015
Maximum Carnage, whose roots can be traced to a backyard shed in Witbank, began to take more serious shape in the Gauteng city of Pretoria by around 2009. Today the band is recognized as a...
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Betray The Emissary return at last
Betray The Emissary represent an iconic name in the Cape Town metal / metalcore scene of the last decade. Having emerged at around 2006 along with other bands suited to the sound, such as The Horror...
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Going Full Blast: more than a decade in metal
Few metal bands in the Southern African region manage to last longer than just a couple of years. With local cities spread far apart and virtually zero touring destinations laying between, plus the...
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Who stands Guardianship over Cape Town metal?
There are many names and faces who, over the years, may or may not have been eligible to such a title. Even today, we believe that more than one person could be credited as a ‘Guardian’ of sorts;...
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UnScene: igniting a new generation in metal
Begun in the format and spirit of a non-profit organisation, much like our own brand at metal4africa, The UnScene Productions (or The UnScene in short) is a name which popped up on the Cape Town metal...
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Betray The Emissary build it up with ‘Barriers’
Betray The Emissary from Cape Town have been hinting at a return to the live stage since more than a year ago after taking a long hiatus begun in 2011. Prior to that, the metalcore band had built a...
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Rukuz indulging in ‘Hobo Groove Metal’
When you think you’ve “heard it all before”, then surely you have already discovered ‘hobo groove metal’? We thought that this labeling warranted closer examination. A name which has been crawling the...
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