Doom-oween is coming!

Napalm Promotions are proud to announce what is now our third show to hit Manchesters Star and Garter! Coming this October 30th we'll be having a fittingly Doomy Haloween, featuring; Ten Foot Wizard, Bong Cauldron, Pist, Barbarian Hermit and 16 Eyes. A full Manc line-up to celebrate with plenty of riffs and beer! More details will be coming your way soon. We're not planning on a fancy dress theme, though be sure they'll be cool points for those who brave it! Plug in and party on!

Bloodstock Ones To Watch 2014

With Bloodstock fast approaching, and the set times going up just today, we thought we'd put together a compact list of ones too watch this year. And forget the limelight of the mainstage, we're talking the smaller bands playing the smaller stages. Although no doubt watching large names like Obituary, Emperor, Saxon and Megadeth may be the majority of your weekend, investing just half an hour of the four days to check out one of these less well known bands may well just make your weekend. So, let's crack on!


01. Incinery - Sophe Stage - Thur. 8:05pm

"Thrasher's INCINERY will hit you with a fast, aggressive and uncompromising feast of neck-snapping riffs and face-shredding solos. The all-out riff massacre is accompanied by a bombardment of drudging bass, visceral drums and a devastating attack of low rasping vocals barked out in a machine gun like tirade of aggression."


02. Monument - Sophie Stage - Thur. - 8:55pm

"Formed in the streets of East London by vocalist Peter Ellis (Ex- White Wizzard, The More I See), MONUMENT is bringing back a sound that has been missing from the UK for nearly 30 years... True British Heavy Metal!

With thunderous, melodic bass tones, dual guitar harmonies, rock-solid drum beats and signature falsetto wails, the band is determined to make a difference in today's Metal scene and is celebrating a sound that is rooted in melody and good songwriting that will inspire a new generation of Metal fans.

True Metal is back in the Empire and MONUMENT will undoubtedly be the band at the forefront of this new wave."


03. Ten Foot Wizard - Jagermeister Stage - Fri. 2:50pm

"A juggernaut of power blues stoner rock, milked from the beard of Zeus!"


04. Old Corpse Road - Sophie Stage - Sat. 12:40pm

"The band hail from the North East of England, an area rich with ancient tales and rife with folklore. The line up consists of five members who have played together in various other projects over the last decade, most notably the dark metal band Nemain. We consider our individual identities to be unimportant, although those who ask shall be told. The members of the band are long time friends who form a part of the Nemain Collective. On a personal level the band follow the entire metal scene passionately and regularly attend gigs and rock nights whilst indulging in fine ales and beverages."




05. Synaptik - New Blood Stage - Sat. 3:50pm

"SYNAPTIK is an British heavy metal band from the East Coast of England. Formed in 2012, known to incorporate elements from styles such as thrash, power, progressive.
Synaptik aren't afraid to mix up the influences and certainly don't fear melody with their heavier than a black hole riffage and dynamic vocals, death metal aggressiveness with a progressive, melodic outlook. They draw on influences old and new to create a mutant hybrid sound-scape that makes them stand out."


06. Eradikator - New Blood Stage - Sun. 1:45pm 

"Eradikator are a 4 Piece Thrash Metal Band from Birmingham UK. The birthplace of heavy metal monsters such as Black Sabbath, Napalm Death and Judas Priest. Drawing on all their life and musical influences, Eradikator set out to create face melting, ear shredding Thrash metal that would make even the most hardened metal heads ears hemorrhage liquid steel. Eradikator are commited to the ideal of living in mediocrity to bring Heavy music to the masses and living life as one big raging, smokin party. With a single goal of being able to tour their asses off for the rest of their life's Eradikator are 100% commited to doing whatever it takes to play metal all over the world and have a fucking blast doing it."

Camp Tickle. None more metal!

So there we are! Just a handful of bands to check out at Bloodstock 2014. If you like the sound of any of the bands featured, click their photo above to check out their music. And if you like what you hear get them on that list of bands too see. Us lot in Napalm Promotions will be going this year checking out all the bands we can, so if you happen to see this super cool flag flying in Valhalla come and have a beer with us. See you all there!

Napalm Show Venue Confirmed

It's a great pleasure to announce Manchesters Star and Garter as the venue for our first show in September! After looking at a variety of places around Manchester, we've gone with Star and Garter because of it's great sound, capacity and drink prices. The location right under one of Manchesters biggest train stations is also a bonus!

Located just down the road from Manchesters Picadilly Station, the venue is ideally located for anyone travelling to town being easy to find even to those with limited knowledge of the city center. Although relatively isolated, and detached from other buildings, it has a great atmosphere and size to accomidate large crowds. Plus it's isolation means amps up to 11 are no problem.

Star and Garters location, right near Picadilly Station.

We hope to have bands announced soon. We already have two bands ready, and a whole list of bands ready to ask to play, so it really shouldn't be long. More information will be coming soon!

Star and Garter venue.

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Date for first Napalm show confirmed!

After shopping round for the last few days, assesing venues, sending emails and all the rest, we now have a date and venue for our first show! We're not letting all the details slip just yet, but be sure to keep Saturday the 13th of September free, as that's when we'll be launching our first Napalm Promotions show.

We've chosen the date for a number of reasons; mostly because it is the beginning of the academic year. Maximising the chance of a solid turnout, and given ourselves a good audience to promote too. The date is on the weekend of MMU's freshers week, so we'll have plenty of new Manchester Metalheads to induct to the scene, and hopefully this'll be a great way to do it. Secondly, it gives us plenty of time to get the gig organised, and promote it to it's full extent. Expect to see flyers around just about every Metal spot in town! We'll be spamming you all like you won't believe.

Plenty more details will becoming your way soon, but all in moderation. We have a venue set, and also a couple of bands well up for it. So we're off to a solid start, but still have lots more to do also. Be sure to like us on facebook if you haven't already to keep up to date with the happenings, and we hope you guys can come down to catch the show!

We also want to thank Connor Lewis for helping us out getting the afformentioned venue which we'll be revealing soon. Thanks so much dude!

Cheers,
Napalm Crew.

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