Switzerland Flyer

English Epic Metal shirts - Final stock

We have only 17 of these shirts left, and we will not be printing anymore. Despite the design being popular, we feel it's time for a new shirt design this summer. The last of these shirts are priced at £10 GBP plus shipping. Payment can be made via the medium of paypal. To purchase one, please contact us via metalculte@hotmail.com. Sizes available, and numbers we have of each size are as follows :

X-Large x 2

Large x 10

Small x 5

Leeds March 17th Flyer

Above is the flyer for our show in Leeds on March 17th with ASOMVEL, and Leeds' TREE OF SORES. We'll be adding some more shows in Europe to the list below ASAP. To those who are interested, we should have a couple more German shows, and a return to Greece, plus currently looking at dates in Norway, Holland, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. Thankyou to all who have contacted us so far looking to book the band.

Last week we began to fine tune the current set, and look again at new equipment upgrades and replacements so we can deliver the heaviest possible show. In years gone by, we would have been satisfied with £4.99 guitar cables, cheap Japanese effects pedals  and knackered transistor amplifiers - but thankfully those days are many years behind us (Though it would seem that some people still love them!??).

There's little else to say at the moment, except, epic metal is war! Oh yeah, and buy some more shirts from Nightgaunt or Metal Supremacy. Go on, you know you want to.....honest. No, really, you do...(cue evil laughter)

Don't Badger Me!

And is if by magic, after being badgered to play more shows even though we are busy rehearsing and writing, here's a few more live dates for thy diaries of doom. We'll probably be adding more as the months progress, time permitting of course. After all, we have lives outside of music to lead.

March 17th - Leeds, Royal park Cellars
(+ ASOMVEL & TREE OF SORES)

April 8th - Lancaster, The Yorkshire House
(+ ASOMVEL, SLANDER, ELIMINATOR & More)

May 19th - Lucerne, Treibhaus, SWITZERLAND
(+ PROCESSION + PETRIFIED)

July 21st - Possneck, GERMANY
(Hell's Pleasure Festival + MORBUS CHRON, VANDERBUYST, MIDNIGHT & More)

September 29th - Dublin,IRELAND
(Dublin Doom Day Festival + REVELATION, PROCESSION & More)

October 13th - Leeds, The Cockpit
(Full Moon Dog Festival + ORANGE GOBLIN, ASOMVEL, DARK FOREST & More)

And if that's not enough, above and below are sneak previews of the incredible artwork for the "ENGLANDER" album created by Martin Hanford. Yes, they are only small snippets, that's foxed you, eh? Ho ho etc. They do not do justice to the whole concept, but right now we feel it best NOT to give the game away totally at this stage. So, for those interested, you can discuss the significance of these two images and what they may mean.

Meet Thy Doom

Well, that's 2011 wrapped up, we'd like to give a thanks to everyone who helped us out in anyway with gigs, gear and buying us drinks, a big fuck off to all the wyrm tongued scum who did none of the above and spent their time like hairy aersed fishwives gossiping on facebook (We simply despair, at the state of Bwwwwwwwwwitain today! Oh lordy!). 2012 will herald our second year of active gigging again, and we're looking forward to meeting alot of folks around Europe and the UK. Here's a few snaps of the rehearsal we had as a full line up whilst Admiral P. Kearns was in the vicinity. Our collective ears are still bleeding, and we laughed heartily at the complaints from two bands in rooms either side of us that we were "Drowning them out". The soft bastards. We also have a large amount of video footage from said rehearsal. but, because of our "Overkill" attitude when it comes to volume, the sound is completely bombed out and distorted. It's fucking great!! Sounds like the epic metal nuclear carpet bombing of Iraq! We will upload some onto youtube when we find a decent video editing programme.

Stuff. No idea what it does. It has pretty lights though.

Andy forages for his dropped roll up.

Paul again gives in to hunger, and eats the Mic.

Paul sniffs the Mic, unsure if the old singer stuck it up his aerse.

Lenny, pretending to look tired after 14 hours driving. The idle bastard.

Del has a sudden brainwave, and waves his sticks about.

Del waves his sticks faster, trying to fly.

He's still not taken off yet.

"Good evening ladies"

Lenny puts the evil eye on the fan.

Solstice - Academy Dublin 24th of Sept. 2011

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye.

And so, after much talking we have decided to split amicably with our drummer Rich Horton, purely for geographical reasons and the fact the distance between us was becoming a hindrance as we are stepping our efforts up a gear or three. We've had some great laughs with Rich, but the needs of the many must outweigh the needs of the few in this instance. (On a side note, I especially want to thank Alan Averill and all the lads of PRIMORDIAL, H of DME, and the incredible people for their appreciation and support at the Dublin show at the Academy. The 1000 Strong audience, and the laughs we had in the pubs and clubs after with Wing Commander Patrick Clancy will go down in legend. It was also Paul's debut on vocals, and to quote our mate Brucey, "Didn't he do well"?)

Anyways up, stepping into his (Richard's) shoes, we welcome ex-ASOMVEL lunatic "Dirty" Del Nichol, a legend among the pubs and clubs of Yorkshire for his ability to knock the living shit out of a drum kit and not go insane from the eldritch rants of Mr. Lenny Robinson. Del fits us like a size ten steel toe capped boot (Or $500 Cowboy ones if you like) and provides us with the ability and technical expertise we need. We'll be making our live début at the end of the year with him. We really do feel that we've had an uncanny stroke of luck to find a replacement in our local area. As the astute among you may already know, young Del played on ASOMVEL's "Full Moon Dog" EP, and thus the connection between SOLSTICE and ASOMVEL is further strengthened.

Above : "Dirty" Del Nichol (Alright, he's not really called "Dirty" Del, but it sounded good)

In other news, we'll be announcing the first of next Years European dates shortly, finally a gig in Germany, which we know that many, many people were disappointed that we had to cancel HELL's PLEASURE and Hammer Of Doom, but again, that's life. We lost no sleep over the cancellations, better to show up and be at our best rather than some hackneyed pub rock with geriatric singer wearing a threadbare hairpiece and wailing out of key which seems to be the norm. We're better than than that, we won't stoop to the level of all these charlatans and chancers. We live, breathe and believe in the music we play, you will never catch us trying to record an album in a chicken hut in someone's back garden then trying to fob it off as re-recorded "Old songs".

And so, as the new songs for the next album are still work in progress (we're still jamming and writing), we will release a limited edition Rehearsal Demo, much in the vein of the old "Drunken Dungeon Sessions" tapes which will be available for a limited time only, With three new songs, ("FORTRESS ENGLAND", "I AM THE HUNTER" and "DEATH'S CROWN IS VICTORY") - it will be a small run available around March/April time to coincide with going to the public house and getting intoxicated most likely!! Lordy! Either way, expect to pay a paltry sum, or nothing at all for a copy if you catch us at a gig with copies.

Finally, apologies to all who showed up to the Lancaster gig expecting to see us, due to circumstances beyond our control we were unable to make it, we will be back however to drink the Yorkshire House's fine selection of beers and make a loud metallic noise. Thanks especially to Jack of ELIMINATOR for been understanding. Until the next update, with some gig dates and a sneak preview of the INCREDIBLE artwork for the "Englander" album, over, but never out - Kao O Aratte Denaoshite Koi!!