Date: June 28th, 2014
Venue: University, Leeds
Website: www.ghostfestofficial.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ghostfest
Twitter: www.twitter.com/ghostfestmosh

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Back again for its ninth consecutive year, the UK’s number one place of worship for all things super hardcore or brutish metal Ghostfest is back with two stages of zero clashes, getting rid of the third stage they introduced for last year’s event. Still, the two date plan remains, each with secret headliners announced just a couple of weeks before its kick off, and with 40 bands in total, it looks like the weekend of welcomed punishment will be as strong as ever.

Leeds based metal and hardcore weekender Ghostfest has released the names of nine more acts for its this year’s event, including Stick To Your Guns and Annotations Of An Autopsy. You can view all new line-up additions and an updated festival poster below:

Suffolk thrash heads This Is Colour have announced they are playing their final gig after seven years together as a band. Norwich based metallers Annotations Of An Autopsy are joining the band and have also announced that it will be their last show for “the foreseeable future”.

Leeds’ annual metal/hardcore festival Ghostfest have made their first line-up announcement for this year’s event. The two festival is taking place at Leeds University on June 25th – June 26th. The tour poster featuring all the currently confirmed bands can be seen below:

Tickets go on sale at 9:00AM on March 14th 2011, each priced at £30 for the whole weekend and £20 for a day. You can purchase yours from either seetickets.com or leedstickets.com. More bands are still yet to be announced.

Date: November 6th, 2010
Venue: Academy 2, Manchester
Support: Trigger The Bloodshed, Annotations Of An Autopsy, Whitechapel
Website: www.jfacmetal.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/jobforacowboy

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One of the heaviest tours to finish off 2010 in the UK, Arizona’s Job For A Cowboy return to November shores with a set of other young and promising bands in the death metal/deathcore scene to blast off a new face in music for 2011 to recreate. Not for the faint hearted, each band is free from any reminicent of clean vocal work, and therefore pretty brutal.

Crabcore innovators Attack Attack! are apparently in an online feud on Facebook with Martyr Defiled and Annotations Of An Autopsy. The American group who recently had to cancel their UK tour this month due to illnesses placed the following claim on their offical Facebook page: “Bands like Martyr Defiled and Annotations Of An Autopsy are ignorant to Christ.”

The above post has since been removed, but has left much criticism and destain led to them by fans from all three of the involved bands.

Release Date: January 18th, 2010
Label: Nuclear Blast/Siege Of Amidia
Website: None available
MySpace: www.myspace.com/annotationsofanautopsy

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Deathcore being my least favourite genre of all time, being presented with Annotations Of An Autopsy I was slightly dubious over how I might react to it, though was pleasantly surprised to find they are in fact now just a death metal band, which is a good thing.

So this album starts out quite promisingly, ‘In Snakes I Bathe’ being the first ‘proper’ track of the record; fast, heavy and all around pretty competent musicianship all around. However, the next few tracks really don’t change much from this.

Job For A Cowboy and Whitechapel are to tour together in November 2010 for one of the most furious and brutal tours to hit the UK in a long time. Both Metal Blade outfits slayed at Download 2010 and can’t wait to team up again after steamrollering through the USA recently.

The bands will have Annotations Of An Autopsy as support on all dates.

NOVEMBER 04 – GLASGOW, Garage
NOVEMBER 05 – SHEFFIELD, Corporation
NOVEMBER 06 – MANCHESTER, Academy 2
NOVEMBER 07 – LONDON, Koko
NOVEMBER 09 – NORWICH, Waterfront
NOVEMBER 10 – WOLVERHAMPTON, Wulfrun Hall