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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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New Infanteria single days prior to album launch
With days to go before Cape Town’s Infanteria release their second full-length album Where Serpents Conquer, the thrash band have released a second single to whet heavy metal appetites. “‘We All have...
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Infanteria’s newest member: Adrian Langeveld
An interview conducted by Ryno De Lange of Heavy Metal Panic with Adrian Langeveld of Infanteria. Infanteria, Cape Town titans of thrash metal, first began stirring in 2006 when brothers Christopher...
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Thunderdeth: local bands pay homage to the greats
What else do the South African bands Infanteria and Mind Assault share in common? Quite a lot, apparently, despite sounding very different. Both are based near the city of Cape Town, and both have...
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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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Infanteria chronicles: Where Serpents did Conquer
On Saturday 08 August, Infanteria will be bring the thrash and co-headlining our WinterFest’15 festival of metal alongside fellow Cape Town greats, Mind Assault. Having established themselves as a...
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Boargazm: final SA shows for 2015 before Russia
Planet Earth’s ‘pig whisperers’ and humanity’s last hope, Boargazm, will soon be leaving their country of South Africa for another trip abroad. But first, they are completing a final round of the...
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Local artists collaborate for Lamb Of God tribute
With South African metal seemingly in full swing where shows are cramming multiple venues in major cities every weekend, some musicians are moving into another sphere to bring more variety to the mix...
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Wargrave announce debut album release date
Cape Town has developed over the years into something of an activity hub for bands more closely aligned to the thrash metal genre, and not least of whom are Wargrave. Recently, the band released a...
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Zombies Ate My Girlfriend play Jackson Guitars
Jackson Guitars, a musical instrument brand which emerged during the heyday of heavy metal’s rise to prominence and representative of one of the most iconic guitar shape innovations in the genre, has...
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Halloween Weekend Heavy Metal Explosion!
Three of Southern Africa’s major urban centers including Cape Town, Gauteng and Gabarone are gearing up for a massive weekend of alternative life-style activity as what can be regarded by our sort as a...
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Wargrave: Suffering The Void (2015-11-14) review
I have a lot of genuine praise for Suffering The Void! The instrumentalist tenacity of Wargrave has never been as eloquently displayed live, with dodgy venue sound and drunken haze typically thwarting...
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South Africa: W.O.A Metal Battle is back!
In 2013 came a great sign of promise to the South African metal musician community when the first ever Wacken Open Air Metal Battle: South Africa was announced. Curated by at-the-time media mogul...
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Infanteria return to Gauteng for Arts Expo: Infiniti
Infanteria @ RAMfest CT 2014: photograph by J-H Bartlett In the build-up to Emalyth‘s next installation of their annual Arts Expo, with this one sub-titled Infiniti, UnScene‘s Zain Domo took an...
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SA Wacken Metal Battle lines drawn
Johannesburg, South Africa: Germany’s Wacken Open Air is truly a global festivity and since 2013, we’ve been getting a small taste of it here in South Africa. A series of eight events will determine a...
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SAMMA is back: Public Polls are opened
The SAMMA (South African Metal Music Awards) returns for the third consecutive year in 2016, bringing many refinements with it which are developed from the experiences of previous years. Public Polls...
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Build Your Scene: S02E06 delivered
Cape Town, South Africa: Our favourite local podcasters, Build Your Scene, have released their final episode for the current season this weekend. This also marks the opening of a new chapter for the...
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Infanteria: mark 10-year milestone with gig
Cape Town, South Africa: we’ve been hearing those rare stories about local metal bands achieving their 10-year milestones every once in a long while. V.O.D (Voice Of Destruction) and Sacraphyx in Cape...
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Zombies Ate My Girlfriend win 2016 Wacken Battle
Wacken, Germany: South African band Zombies Ate My Girlfriend took first place at the 2016 international Wacken Metal Battle today, besting the top selections from almost thirty other nations from all...
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Zombies Ate My Girlfriend: spread the siff
Cape Town, South Africa: with Zombies Ate My Girlfriend having recently snatched away top honours from nearly 30 other countries’ bands at the international Wacken Metal Battle 2016, and only days to...
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