Dividing The Element is a Zimbabwean metal band from the country’s capital city, Harare. Their self-titled debut album was released on the 5th of May 2018 while participating in the Zimbabwean leg of one of the biggest underground metal movements to happen- Metal United World Wide. Recorded in Harare in a garage converted into a…
2018 is turning out to be an incredible year for South African Sludge n Rollers Ruff Majik. With two European tours booked that will see them playing Freak Valley Festival and SonicBlast as well as a host of club shows. They also released their debut full-length album Seasons on the 20th April to widespread critical…
Be a part of this inaugural three-part music event this winter at one of South Africa’s premier tourist attractions. The Two Oceans Aquarium, together with entertainment website Texx and the City, have joined forces to bring you a stripped down series of events this winter featuring some of the Mother City’s finest bands. On three…
Gunshot Blue is a South African psychedelic blues act born amongst burning incense, black ink, prayer beads, tattooed skin and religious icons back in 2014 at SA Hardcore Social Club in Johannesburg. The band have released the video for their new single Neon Love which made its worldwide premiere on PureGrainAudio yesterday (9th May). Taken…
Africa’s metal Mecca, Krank’d Up returns with an emphatic bang at the announcement of SikTh as their first international act of 2018’s highly anticipated instalment. That’s right, South Africa, the Watford mathcore sextet that stumbled upon a sound unexplored, who devised their own Morse code of metal – one that mushroomed into labyrinthine detours and…
2017 was a massive year for Gauteng-based rock act, Deity’s Muse. They performed at Euroblast festival in Germany, supported UK proggers TesseracT on the Johannesburg leg of their South African tour, took home the SAMMA (South African Metal Music Award) for “Best Album” and cracked mentions in prominent publications such as Metal Hammer and Metal…
Johannesburg’s whiskey-swilling, cigarette-toting, blues-swinging, rock ‘n rollers Dirty Moonshine have just released the video for their track Toxic Waltz taken from their forthcoming debut album Bottom of The Barrel set for release mid-2018. Shot over an extended day at 3 different locations around the city, Director Marios Nicolettis had the following to say about…
Temples on Mars have released the video for their new single Gods & Kings Taken from their self-titled debut album which released on 6th April via Primordial Records “Gods & Kings explores the idea that there is always something bigger than us,” says frontman James Donaldson. “No matter how we see ourselves, we are all…
Today sees the release of Seasons from Pretoria’s Sludge n Rollers Ruff Majik. During the course of 2017 the band released 3 EP’s, The Hare and the Hollow, A Finch in a Cherry Tree and A Dragon and his Hoard, which along with 3 previously unreleased tracks make up Seasons. The band surfaced in 2015 with…
JamPacked Productions are very happy to announce the tour dates for American metalcore band Fit For A King. Three shows across three cities with incredible local acts. In aid of Rocking For Rhinos and other beneficiaries, JamPacked Productions gives YOU the second of five tours aimed at raising R1 000 000.00 for the conservation efforts.…