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Review: The One Who Knocks by Vulgate
March 23, 20150I 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... -
Review: Argonautica by Sacred Blood
March 17, 2015It’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... -
TBF chats with Invisus, the “mad-scientist” behind Blodhemn
February 24, 2015Like 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... -
Review: A Long Time Coming by Profane and The Sacred
January 23, 2015It’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... -
Reporting on Skindred live at The Welly Club: a performance like you’ve never seen
December 1, 2014On 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.... -
Review: Generation Day by Godsmack
July 26, 2014It’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... -
Review: Popscotch by Driving Mrs. Satan
May 4, 2014We’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... -
The Black Flag Meets Conan
April 3, 2014No 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... -
Review: Inshallah by Forgotten Fear
April 3, 2014We’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... -
Review: House of Cards by Tapewyrm
February 20, 2014Regular 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...