Metal

I hate fucking waiting, I’ve never been good at sitting around twiddling my thumbs knowing that something awesome is about to happen, I’m a big kid really. That’s what happened when we spoke to the Vulgate guys...

It’s been a busy few weeks for the team here at the Flag so in order to relieve some stress we ordered a hair transplant, squeezed in to our old leather pants and went horns up...

Like an impending great wave, Blodhemn – a one-man-band that has raged since 2004 – is approaching, ready to crash onto the forefront of the black metal scene. Described as ‘no-nonsense thrash’ (Blodhemn.no) producing music that...

It’s that time again, New Year and New Music, so here at the flag we strapped ourselves in for a morning of sore neck muscles as we go horns up and heads down for the debut...

On Tuesday the 25th on a frosty November evening, I and about two-hundred others packed ourselves into an intimate room at The Welly Club to experience the “Ragga Metal” band from North Wales, Skindred, perform live....

It’s been a long and painful wait since 2010’s The Oracle, which was so good it was almost an act of pure sadism when the band released a Live album in 2012. Finally we are here and soon...

We’ve reached that time of year when the big yellow thing in the sky seems to hang around a little longer than usual, so in light of this rare phenomenon we had a listen to a...

No guys not the mythical warrior portrayed by Arnie, the far better and infinitely more powerful band. We were lucky enough to have an early listen to their album, and we just had to catch up...

We’ve all heard the expression you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs and sometimes it’s true in the case of bands. When we heard of the demise of East Sussex metallers BlackDown we...

Regular readers of The Black Flag will have read my interview with up-and-coming Industrial star Tapewyrm, if you didn’t then you need to really re prioritise things in your life and click on this link. Well...