So, in order to celebrate the big monumentus occasion of hitting their first 1000 likes on Facebook a competition is being held to win this one of a kind T shirt produced during the test prints of a previous batch of shirts. What makes this so special? i hear you cry:

1. Its size XL!

2. Its the first GURT shirt to feature both front and back print!

3. It has ‘London Stained Glass company’s’ logo on the front (and we have no idea why!)

4. It has a wonky GURT Skull design on the back

5. ITS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!

So, if you want to impress all your friends and be the only guy or gal about town to own this shirt all you have to do is email g_u_r_t@hotmail.co.uk and say why you think you can give this shirt a good home! Competition closes at the end of next week…

GOOD LUCK!!

WOW, Where has the time gone but how much have we had along the way…. a hell of a lot and much more to come !

Come celebrate our second Birthday with a night of crushing NOLA inspired metallic Sludge and technical wonderment!

Coming back to lay waste to our beloved home is the amazing RSJ… (whose name could not be any more metal!) they headlined way over a year ago for us and the show has to be seen to be believed. Since we last saw them they were personally chosen by Will haven to support them in the UK and will have soon completed an amazing opening show alongside Vision of Disorder and Earthtone9…. BOOM!

Alongside them we have the Welsh titans that are the amazing LIFER, crossing the groove of Down and Corrosion with the punk attitude of Sick of it All they really are a force to be reckoned with!

Are good friends DIESEL KING are back after headlining earlier in the year and NEW to the scene boys (and girl) LIMB are here to show all how its done…. and opening proceedings the horrible bastard son of the Windmill GURT!

FUN FUN FUN…. more surprises to be announced shortly!!!

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE HERE!

I love Meadows and I love Slabdragger but as with every split release there is one band that seems to have the the added popularity or overshadows the other involved party, and in this case Slabdragger definitely are that band.

THAT RIFF shall be going round and round my head for weeks and from the very beginning i am hooked, the song ‘Alchemistress’ is the most psychotically trippy thing i have heard in ages and THANK FUCK its on Vinyl as you can hear every little note perfectly crystal clear and its that, that makes the atmospherics of this mental piece of work so masterful! Thankfully they don’t hold up and their other offering ‘Burden’ is equally spellbinding, especially the final part of the song which just comes at you like the final frantic few pulls of a particularly nasty wank! The good thing about doing this on a 12″ is that this is a good 30 minutes of music, BUT the boys in Slabdragger are a band that need to get to work quick and give us another album as this is only going to hold back their rabid fans hunger for so long….

As for the Meadows side, they are a very different beast and it really does give you a chance to peel yourself off the ceiling and get down to some good old humour filled sludgy punk… and with lyrics like ‘Hey baby, i live in my car. Eat from your bins, i piss in a jar!’ you know you are in the presence of a band that really don’t give a fuck and are having a damn good time doing so!

BUY IT POST-HASTE FROM HERE!!!

I found out about the nasty little buggers that are Cultfinder quite some time back and bought their first release on cassette tape and its was truly inspiring stuff.. the crackly tape sound and low budget recording really only made the crusty blackened punk of this band more enjoyable… So, it was good to see that they are back again with this release and this time on sexy Vinyl!

Its nice filthy fast fun and whats more comes with some damn cracking artwork to boot (and if you have yourself a nice battle jacket, you get get yourself a nice vinyl and patch offer for a mere £6.66), if you really like your black metal thrashy then its a sure fire win!

Heres a nice video of them performing at the Bull and Gate. which if you weren’t there, was a fucking cracking time:

Well, its been a long time coming but it is finally here and in just a handful of days we shall have 9 of the most sonically interesting bands that have graced the Windmill since the last time WPC cast its filthy shadow over the noble venue!

Most importantly you can fight over who you want to buy the sexy new Vinyl off (if you don’t already own one) and if you do why not buy another!

Next up is the BBQ and all who have been before know that no expense is spared on the magnificent feast and at only £6 entry you get that and 9 cracking bands!

Who shall be:

DOPEFIGHT

GURT

STEAK

ALUNAH

SHBREW

PROFANE AND THE SACRED

DKH

DESERT STORM

CRUMBLING GHOST

Come get tickets HERE

Come get Stage Times HERE

Facebook event page has all the gruesome details HERE

Remember get down from 5:30pm to catch all the action and get your hands on some lovely grub!!

(and Birthday present for me is optional!) G

2 of Europes most monstrous riff machines together on British soil and performing for the first time at Brixton’s very own Windmill.

Abrahma from France and Mother of God from Sweden come to show us Brits how its done!!

Support coming from WPC favorites ‘Sedulus’ and the Alice in Chain inspired riffery of ‘Mother Corona’…

If you like your heavy groovy psychedelic Stoner Rock this is gonna be one of the finest gigs of the year!!

TRULY TESTING THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF THE WINDMILL’S FOUNDATIONS…. Hold on to your collar Roof dog!!

Coming Thursday October 25th 2012 £5 on the door and £4 advance tickets coming soon…

Check out the bands below:

I was asked once again this to write a small review for PRS for Music’s ‘M Magazine’ here is a sneek peak of that review before it goes up on their site later this week….

‘This year was the third time that PRS for Music returned to Bloodstock festival and with pretty much the same staff returning for those years they really do treat us like part of the team now and we feel very lucky to be part of an amazing and unique event.

What is now around 12,000 people attending the festival it still has a very intimate feel except now you have heavy metal titans like Behemoth, Machine Head and the ever shocking Alice Cooper headlining the weekend, which for a family run event of this size truly is an amazing example of how great the team is and how we are very fortunate to have such a festival in the UK.

Working over 4 stages our team found the friendly faces of the staff and the enthusiasm of the bands a pleasure to work with and ensured that we had our work done quickly and giving us time to enjoy some damn impressive acts such as Hatebreed, The Black Dahlia Murder, Dripback and many more. And quite possibly the best element of the festival is the ‘New Blood’ stage which showcases some mighty fine young bands that have come from all of the UK after winning competitions to battle out for a place to open ‘Wacken 2013’ festival in Germany. There were some great acts that deserved to win but if I had to choose one it would be the might of Bull Riff Stampede who not only had the biggest crowd of the weekend in the tent but also had festival promoter Simon Hall starting a pretty magnificent circle pit!

No other festival has such a unique bill with breakfast being accompanied by some nasty grind inspired thrash (Courtesy of the Benediction Breakfast Club!) or epic fist raising power metal it has something for every extreme music fan. And with the bands and fans being of a similar ilk, it’s not rare to see members of your favourite group sat alongside you whilst watching some of their favourite artists themselves! Its all little touches like this that just make it so special and ensure that we shall no doubt be attending year on year!

RAISE YOUR HORNS AND TOAST TO BLOODSTOCK AND SEE YOU ALL IN 2013!!’

With less than 2 weeks to go until show time (and my hitting the big 30!) below are the times of action:

Staggerin Matt DJ – 00:10 – 2:00 (2 hours)

Dopefight – 23:30 – 00:10 (40 mins)

GURT – 22:45 – 23:15 (30 mins)

Steak – 22:00 – 22:30 (30 mins)

Alunah – 21:15 – 21:45 (30 mins)

Shebrew – 20:35 – 21:00 (25 mins)

Profane and the Sacred – 19:55 – 20:20 (25 mins)

DKH – 19:15 – 19:40 (25 mins)

Desert Storm – 18:35 – 19:00 (25 mins)

Crumbling Ghost – 18:00 – 18:20 (20 mins)

As before the BBQ should be fired up sometime around the start of the show so get down early as the food goes quick!!

and bring lots of pennies as there will be the Merch corner with lots of lovely shirts and stuff to buy from all the great bands!!

SEE YOU VERY SOON INDEED!!

The masters of Southern sludge, Weedeater covering the Kings of Southern rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

It has to be said the original version of this tune should be pretty hard to beat, but the way that Weedeater strip it down to its bare bones and turn it into a masterful stompy swamp classic is pure genius!

So the Metal Festival of the year is coming up this very weekend and i seems to be getting better and better for us filthier music fans every year! YES it still has LOADS of thrash bands and YES it still has LOADS of strange bands thats logo’s seem completely undecipherable BUT this is the beauty of the festival and the very reason why it is a gem in our generally rather dull metal festival calender….

There is a hell of alot of goodness this year but here are WPC’s Favorite 7 In no particular order:

CROWBAR

ANAAL NATHRAKH

ORANGE GOBLIN

BULL RIFF STAMPEDE

COSMIC VORTEX OF DOOM

DRIPBACK

BENEDICTION

SEE Y’ALL THERE!!!!