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12/08/2024

We saw the bone crushing power of Brazil's on Friday last week and man was it wild. Check out our full gig review now live on heavymetalcitadel.com or click the link in our bio.

Big thanks to Luana, Jéssica, Fernanda, and Tainá for creating such an epic atmosphere and thanks to George from The Underworld and Joe for the backstage passes. Hails to you all!!!

29/05/2024

Hail Citadelian! Check out our latest live gig review as our beloved travelled to Oslo, Norway to watch , , and perform at the ! Big shout out and thank you to all the bands for their epic energy, and of course to for putting the whole thing together and the hospitality. Oslo you were brilliant! Click the link in our bio to read the full review now.

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02/02/2024

🔥NEW METAL RECORD & COFFEE SHOP IS CRUSHING CAMDEN, LONDON🔥
Check out our latest review as the HMC strolled on into in Camden Town. We had a bit of alky free booze, some coffee that purged our bowels and flipped through some pretty taste vinyls. Read the full review on the HMC site now! Cheers to Ben for showing us around.

18/09/2023

🔥ALL HAILS, .moth - our latest Valkyrie of the Citadel🔥
Citadelians, welcome Ghita into the fold, a Venetian, who is a professional body pierced and black and death metal lover. Learn more about her by clicking the link in our bio and reading the full interview.

09/09/2023

☠️NEW REVIEW OF CREPUSCULE NATURA☠️
Check out what Chort had to say about the new release from Uada by clicking the link in our bio!

07/09/2023

🔥ALL HAILS, 🔥
We have a new Valkyrie in the Citadel! Check out how Scarlett's musical tastes snowballed from and to and , her favourite piece of band merch and more. Read her full interview now by clicking the link in the bio.

05/09/2023

🔥NEW INTERVIEW FEATURING TIMO KONTIO OF 🔥
Hails, Citadelians as we welcome from ...And Oceans into The Heavy Metal Citadel. We chatted with Timo about the latest album, striking the balance between old and new sounds, creativity, AI, and cyborg mutant badgers. Click our link to read the full interview!

02/09/2023

🔥NEW INTERVIEW WITH !🔥
Hails Citadelians! Emerging from the shadowy depths of York's putrid sewers, Deitus materialised in 2004, weaving a tapestry of haunting Black Metal ever since. Chort and Chern interview the mysterious force behind the band, about the new album Irreversible, the spooky art, and our signature medley of fun questions. We also learned about how cool GG Allin was! Click the link in our bio to read the full interview, now!

01/09/2023

🔥ALL HAILS, .ptthn!🔥 Welcome our latest Valkyrie to the Citadel, Natalie. This epic bassist loves her , , and . When she's not downing some Apfelwein, she's playing live on stage, or chillin at the pub. Check out what Natalie had to say about her musical interests, band merch, and memorable live show moments! Click the link in our bio to read the full interview.

01/09/2023

🔥NEW METAL RELEASES SEPTEMBER🔥
Citadelians, check out some of the most brutal, face-lashing, skull crushing albums set to infest your putrid souls this month. Head over to heavymetalcitadel.com to see all the release dates that feature Metal heathens like , , , , , , , , , , , , , and more!

29/08/2023

🔥NEW INTERVIEW featuring 🔥
Citadelians, check out our latest interview with the five-piece, brain-smashing, black metal heathens, . Pi***ng on gatekeepers, to crypto-fascists and and everyone in between, this diverse cast of black hearts visited the Citadel to discuss their music, worldview, the dark underbelly of black metal and their inspirations. Read the full interview by clicking the link in our bio.

27/08/2023

🔥ALL HAILS, !🔥
Our latest Valkyrie, Angelina Vehera is from Ukraine, but currently living in Amsterdam. Angelina loves Patrick Walker, , and . She also crushes it live on stage with her own band so be sure to check out her interview, support her and her band and show your love for the Valkyries! Click the link in our bio and head to our Valkyries page now.

24/08/2023

⚔️MORE LONDON LIVE SHOWS 2023⚔️
We've updated our gigs page on www.heavymetalcitadel.com with some more of the epic artists set to light 'The Jolly Old' ablaze this year. If you're in town be sure to check out these stellar acts including: , , , , , , , Krzysztof Drabikowski's Batushka, and

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23/08/2023

🔥NEW SINGLE REVIEW FEATURING !🔥
Your favourite crop Infestor, Chort dishes out his reflections on the latest Asagraum single, "Impure Fire" from their latest album "Veil of Death, Ruptured". Read the full review by clicking the link in our bio!

22/08/2023

🔥NEW ALBUM REVIEW featuring 🔥
Dive into the ear shattering depths of Death Metal mayhem with Celestial Sanctuary's latest album: "Insatiable Thirst For Torment". More intense, more grotesque, and titles that sound like Chort's failed hot sauce recipes - only at The Heavy Metal Citadel! This is UK death metal at its finest. Dropping August 25th, prepare your eardrums for a relentless onslaught!

21/08/2023

🔥MONDAY METAL BULLETIN🔥
Check out the latest metal news that all the metalheads are talking about. It's mostly artists getting bonked on the head, and controversy.

19/08/2023

⚔️UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS⚔️
Hear ye! UK-based Citadelians, here are some of the bands/festivals coming to London soon. From to to there's gonna be quite a few great events popping off. Visit our Gigs page on heavymetalcitadel.com to find out more. Until then stay creepy, y'all.

18/08/2023

🔥NEW INTERVIEW featuring 🔥
Peter from Hath visited us recently at The Heavy Metal Citadel to discuss All That Was Promised, inspirations, dreams, "f**k yeah" moments, and mythical creatures! Click the link in our bio to read the full interview and be sure to support HATH!

17/08/2023

⚔️ALL HAILS, ⚔️
Ayesh is the newest addition to the Valkyries of the Citadel. This , ._ loving Valkyrie is a dental hygienist in the making and an Alt-model! Check out what she had to say when we chatted with her at the Citadel. Click the link the our bio to find out more!

15/08/2023

🔥NEW ALBUM REVIEW featuring !🔥
The new album from Spirit Adrift goes live this Friday, ya'll. Check out What your favourite hero with the silver moustache, Chernoglav, had to say about it.

14/08/2023

📰EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL 'BOUT IT📰
Here are some metal news as we head into another abysmal week of drudgery. Ugh....sigh....whatever...
Click the link in our bio to read more!

13/08/2023

🔥KOOKY BAND MERCH🔥Citadelians, if you're looking for more kooky and unusual band merch, head over to our Metal Merch Bazaar page on heavymetalcitadel.com. We've got some merch from , , , , , , , , and more. If you've got some unique band merch be sure to DM us and we'll feature it.

12/08/2023

🏴‍☠️NEW INTERVIEW featuring 🏴‍☠️
Shelby of Ulthar visited us at the Citadel to discuss HP Lovecraft, esoteric meanings, live shows, and more. Click the link in our bio to read the full interview.

11/08/2023

🤘🏻INTERVIEW featuring from 🤘🏻
If you haven't already, check out our talk with the epic ol' Nate from Spirit Adrift. We delved deep into the music, the new album, Ghost at the Gallows set to release next week, The Big Riff Energy podcast, philosophy, films, and more. Click the link in our bio to listen/read the full interview. Cheers to you Nate!

10/08/2023

📯NEW GIG REVIEW featuring 📯
Citadelians, take a quirky deep dive into the Sacred Reich live show at the London that ended up being a melee of Metal, politics, hecklers, and oh so much more! Click the link in our bio to read the full tale!

10/08/2023

🔥ALL HAILS, .misery, THE NEWEST VALKYRIE OF THE CITADEL🔥
We welcome Jule, from Germany, as the newest shield-maiden at The Citadel. Find out more about her musical tastes, her recommendations and more by clicking the link in our bio!

09/08/2023

🔥NEW GIG PHOTOS featuring 🔥 Check our our latest (only slightly blurry) photos from last night where Sacred Reich totally crushed the venue. It was a hella good time and we met some new fans, Sacred Reich lovers, and some dude wearing Egyptian mascara. Stay tuned for the gig review coming soon! Click the link in our bio and head over to our photography page to see the few photos we could get before it got too rowdy.

07/08/2023

☠️NEW GIG REVIEW featuring ☠️
We hit up the to watch the live release of Deitus' newest sacrilegious creation: "Irreversible". The night was filled with riffage, thunderous vocals, a drunken Rasputin and literal skull bashing! Read the full review by clicking the link in our bio.

05/08/2023

🔥NEW REVIEW featuring 🔥
Citadelians, it's grey as f**k in London right now, perfect weather to blast Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree's releases from newest album "Aion" set to fully launch on Aug. 11th. Check out what Chort thinks of the album, using his wide vocabulary and extensive musical knowledge.

03/08/2023

🔥ALL HAILS, , THE NEWEST VALKYRIE OF THE CITADEL🔥
Everyone, welcome Claudia, from Colorado to the ranks of the Valkyries of the Citadel. Check out what makes this Metal shield-maiden tick and some of her metal artists go-to, like , , and Code! Thanks, Claudia for joining The Citadel! Hails to you.

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Big thanks again to all the epic bands that crushed the show at @revolveroslo last night and showed Chort such amazing hospitality. Truly Norway is the best! HAILS!!! #blackmetal #norweiganblackmetal #norway #trvekvlt #metal #livemetal #oslo #blackmetalmusic

I had a f**king blast at @revolveroslo as I watched @andakt_official, @swornnorway and @zustandnull! I got to meet some epic metalheads, share some laughs and meet the best people around. Hails from The Heavy Metal Citadel! Big shoutout to @screamingskullrecordsoslo for the invite and @andakt_official my fellow carpeting brother for the hand-built shield. Watch the part 2 video to see more!

@swornnorway at Revolver!

Chort and Chern get their carcasses mashed up at Midnight! 🗡️REVIEW COMING SOON. @midnightviolators #heavymetal

Your cromulent hosts see @sacredreichofficial at the @theunderworldcamden. Check out our latest review at heavymetalcitadel.com ☠️

🔥NEW PODCAST EPISODE featuring Nate Garrett of @spiritadrift 🔥 Nate talks about the latest album: Ghost at the Gallows, creating the new tracks, philosophy, films, his podcast Big Riff Energy, and the fine art of not giving a f**k! Listen to the full episode now by clicking the link in our bio. Cheers for coming on Nate, you bearded sunset. #heavymetalcitadel #spiritadrift #heavymetal #metal #metalhead #headbanger #headbangers #heavymetalmusic #metalmusic #metalband #centurymedia