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Death - Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic & The Sound of Perseverance. What a fucking run of albums. Untouchable stuff.

Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility. A savage slice of Death Metal. The vocals and guitar work remind me of that old Irish band Vile Regression on their E.P The Pattern Evolves.

Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal. This album has become one of my absolute go-tos when I'm in the mood for some furious, groove-laden epic DM.

HELL - Human Remains & Curse and Chapter. Will never tire of these albums and it's an absolute shame they seem to be on an indefinite hiatus. At least one more album please lads!

The Substance. Holy shit, go in completely blind if you can. Bonkers film that's a really loving tribute to 80s b-movie horror. Tons of fun, and Society levels of WTF-ness 

I second going in blind for The Substance and I'm so glad I did!

Absolutely deadly film that just gets progressively more absurd as it goes on. The last 30 minutes or so are amazing.

It's been a long while since I've pointed at the tv in utter wtf-ness whilst laughing my arse off at it all.

Where are you guys staying accommodation wise for this fest?

I had a look there yesterday for hotels in the Kings Cross/Camden area and holy hell it's expensive. I was in Camden last year for Blind Guardian and prices have jumped considerably, even since then!

Looks saucy that night alright. Little bit out but if you want to save the pennies Premier Inn in Beckton is £49 for a twin room that night. Last stop on the DLR - about an hour to Camden via Canning Town, Stratford and Camden Road. Have stayed there, it's grand. Couple of Premier Inns and Travelodges around the Docklands / London City Airport for a but more (but note twin rooms in Travelodges often cost quite a bit extra). If you wanna splash the cash but within reason, Travelodge Finchley is £107 for a single / double and is handy for Camden (straight up the tube) and the bar stays open all night for residents (or did in August when I was at Deicide anyway!).

Cheers for the reply. I'll look into all of the above at some stage later today.

My mate usually stays in the Holiday Inn in Camden Lough for these fests, total for there for 3 nights (myself and the missus planning on staying Friday to Monday) is £840

Where are you guys staying accommodation wise for this fest?

I had a look there yesterday for hotels in the Kings Cross/Camden area and holy hell it's expensive. I was in Camden last year for Blind Guardian and prices have jumped considerably, even since then!

Blood Incantation, Blackbraid and Spectral Wound?

I'm in, ticket acquired!

An absolutely immense release for me, especially diggin the synthy Pink Floyd style sections. The start of The Message [Tablet 1] is so good.

I've grabbed a ticket to Incineration Fest in Camden next May after one listen of this. Blood Incantation will be playing it in full. Excited!

Doors 17:30
Pestifer 18:00
Intrepid 18:45
Hideous Divinity 19:30
Nile 20:45

Cheers! I had a sneak peek at Nile's setlist last night. I'm really looking forward to this one now! 

The new album is an utter banger.

Just snagged two standing tickets to this. I'm purely going for the mighty Testament ( I could watch Skolnick play all day) and Kreator.

I really have never been all too arsed with Anthrax. Maybe Joey will be chucking cans of Monster into the crowd again. 

The Pay That Never Comes
Trade To Black
Trapped Under Price
Buyers Eve

 

Any crab impressions?

There was one towards the end of their set aye    .

Yep, caus myself and a few others around me started mimicking him. Fun times.

Standing back on sale now at €230

I definitely won't be going to this now. Not in a million years would I pay that to see a Dime-less Pantera. Fucking Toutermaster.

Good Friends and a Bottle of Blossom Hills

I thoroughly enjoyed that gig. A nice selection of songs (I'm in the camp that likes later era Immortal ) but could have done with a few more as the set seemed so short at only 12 songs. I was hoping he might have thrown in Unsilent Storms In The North Abyss or anything else from Pure Holocaust. The Sun No Longer Rises, Withstand The Fall of Time and In My Kingdom Cold were particular highlights for me. Also, no feckin Solarfall!

The support acts were damn good too, especially The Crawling whose set seemed to be cut a bit short which was a shame, probably as it was all running about 10/15 mins behind schedule.

All in all, I'd go see Abbath again in a heartbeat if he came back with another Immortal setlist. The crowd seemed super into it all night and there was a great buzz about the place. Cheers for putting this on!

Fruithanasia
Bake No Prisoners
Cook In Mouth
Looking Down The Croissant

I'll also get my coat after that.

Bake Up Bread 

Satan are absolutely amazing live. I've seen them twice now and they are just formidable in a live setting.

Would love to catch them again but seeing Nile the night before coupled with having to get the bus home after that gig due to the extortionate hotel prices that weekend might force me to miss this.