What do you get when you put a drunken power metal band and an equally inebriated music journalist in a small space with a recording device? Jack Traveller prepares to get silly with Birmingham’s rising stars Dakesis, in what is easily OneMetal’s drunkest interview so far.
OneMetal.com’s Danny Heaton, Jack Traveller and Phil Whitehouse made their way to Derby’s Catton Hall to take in the sights and sounds of 2012′s Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival – here’s their report of what occurred on day one of the festivities.
Nicholas Cleeve takes a look over ‘Trial By Fire’, the debut album of one of Birmingham’s rising stars, power metal quintet Dakesis.
The OneMetal.com Music Team proudly presents their picks for the best releases of 2011.
Phil Whitehouse returns to The Old Wharf in Birmingham for the second day of charity fund-raising, hard-rocking unsigned showcase Brumstock 2011.
Jack Traveller plunges into the depths of his local metal scene in search of treasure in the form of the rising prog-Stars Enochian Theory.
Six unsigned bands, one all-day rock and metalfest – and all thanks to tweeting. Phil Whitehouse checked out the very first Twitrfest, to see performances by Oaf, Trucker Diablo, Sassy Kraimspri, Dakesis, Triaxis and Furyon.
Horns were thrown, ales were quaffed and heads were banged as Birmingham’s The Roadhouse venue put on an evening of steel courtesy of Valhalla and Dakesis.