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Gig Review: INGquisition Album Launch
On Saturday 29 September, the time had come for the “INGfidels” to gather for the release of ING’s second full-length album, Ingquistion. I rushed upstairs to ROAR and arrived in the midst of...
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Rocking the River into the New Year
Armed with a bar-fridge of Monster, and a desire to party, we battled against various weather conditions and unforeseen difficulties amidst the standard festival chaos. This year, the annual event...
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Seasons in the Liquid Abyss
Go out on almost any night in Cape Town and you’re sure to find live bands playing somewhere. And if it’s not indie rock, then it’s probably metal! Live gigs have become something of a convenience for...
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A Metal Storm Approaches Cape Town: 7 June
The “Cape of Storms” has certainly lived up to it’s namesake over the weekend past and now this weekend coming promises to deliver another Cape Town ‘storm’ of somewhat different proportions as three...
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Junkyard Lipstick Engage in Bioterror
Cape Town’s fabulous female foursome of Junkyard Lipstick are gearing up for another album to be launched in 2014 entitled The Butchers Delight. They’ve offered fans a sample track called “Bioterror”...
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SummerFest’14 Line-up Announced
Since 2007, www.metal4africa.com has been presenting Cape Town with the regions biggest celebration of all-African metal music. As the end of this year approaches, so comes the time to announce...
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Beeldenstorm – Dabbling in Dark Science
If you’ve been even remotely connected to the Metal Scene in Cape town over the last year or so, chances are, you’ve come across the name Beeldenstorm. This quintet has been destroying stages with...
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The Fallen Prophets Predict Misery
Cape Town’s death metal community has being taking in a breath of fresh air the last few months, with a couple of new bands emerging on the scene. As such acts as Suiderbees and Beeldenstorm are...
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Beeldenstorm’s Album Artwork is Dark Science
Beeldenstorm, who have been ascending the ladder of local death metal, with their back-to-basics, headbanging goodness. Are in the final stages of putting together their debut album, Die Donker...
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Junkyard Lipstick prepare farewell show for current vocalist
Junkyard Lipstick have delivered a heart-rending announcement today that their vocalist, the gregarious Ms Tanya Markowitsch, will be leaving the band after performing one final show this coming...
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A Storm Approaches: The Beeldenstorm
Afrikaans is not a common language used in South African heavy metal, even despite so many participants within the genre and local musician community being Afrikaans-speaking at home. Whilst some bands...
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Beeldenstorm launch ‘Die Donker Wetenskap’ this weekend
We recently featured Beeldenstorm for their exclusive use of the Afrikaans language in their forthcoming album, Die Donker Wetenskap, with a full article dedicated to the subject (read it here). The...
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African Metal: Zimbabwe adds a voice to the rising crescendo
What does it mean if it is called ‘African Metal’? To most, this means only that a band originates from within the geography of continental Africa, and has nothing to do with the sound,...
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Boargazm Interview –“The Oracle told us to do it like this”
Hail Bacon(!), the signature line of intergalactic space metal band Boargazm, is a slogan well known to many metal heads in South Africa. Having formed in late 2012 the 4 piece act hailing from...
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Aborted South African Tour: local support announced
Belgian death metal band, Aborted, were in South Africa as recently as last month with their one-night-only appearance at Witchfest Urban Camping Festival in the heart of Johannesburg. The festival...
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Emalyth Arts Expo 7: The Rapture… is coming
Pay-day is upon us! If Gauteng and surrounds do not yet have their plans in place to attend Emalyth‘s annual showcase event next weekend, candidly titled as the Arts Expo, then now is the time to get...
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Klein Libertas Theatre fire: WinterFest’15 jeopardized
As of the earliest hours on Saturday 13 June, metal4africa has been added to the expanding list of metal festivals to have found themselves destitute at some point during 2015. M4A home of almost nine...
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M4A WinterFest’15 bands announced
Cape Town’s biggest gathering of metal celebrates nine years in the making WinterFest’15 approaches! On 08 August, metalheads will again unite from across sub-genres, suburbs, and nearby towns to raise...
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Aborted interview: returning to South Africa
In a matter of weeks, Belgian death metal band Aborted will be returning to South Africa after having performed here for the first time earlier this year at Witchfest 2015. The local promoter will be...
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WinterFest’15: free sampler album available now
WinterFest’15 is brought to you by www.metal4africa.com in conjunction with the True Believers membership club, Fiendarts, Golden Circle Production, Burning Tone Records, Mapex Drums and Laney...
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