Join the hordes! Dust off your leather, battle jacket, and high tops, crack open a beer and bang your head to some killer bands from around Oz and overseas!

For their second time down under, Spain’s most highly successful thrash metal act 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗟𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔 will grace our shores once again, their first Australian show announcement headlining Churches of Steel VII – a huge honour for the fest! Signed to Century Media Records with no need to regain momentum, 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗟𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔 are more ready than most to let rip again in 2023. Their new record Aftermath marks a pinnacle in this band’s determined and always fruitful career. It’s a defiant, uplifting and resolutely metal-as-fuck response to an era defined by chaos and fear. It’s the sound of 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗟𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔, doing what they do, but bigger, better, louder and with more passion than ever.

After a successful set at Adelaide’s premier alternative music festival, Froth and Fury, hailing from Canberra, 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗦𝗞𝗨𝗟𝗟 make a return to Adelaide to once again showcase their unique traditional doom sound with the aggression that you would expect a 3-piece Australian band to deliver. This energy, coupled with an authentic insight into the occult to create mesmerising lyrics, has won the band plenty of interest worldwide.

It wouldn’t be a party without Adelaide’s hard-working Pub Thrash act 𝗛𝗜𝗗𝗗𝗘𝗡 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧 who’ve just returned from gracing the stage at the heavy metal holy land Wacken Open Air and UK’s Bloodstock! Along for the ride, launching their new album via Massacre Records “The Great Tribulation” Melbourne heavy metal legends 𝗘𝗟𝗠 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗧 making a return to the fest to knock Adelaide out with a metal fist!

If that doesn’t make you want to bang your head and raise your horns then we have Melbourne’s hard rock exports WICKED SMILE who were initially locked in to support Skid Row on their Australian run, the band have toured relentlessly overseas and have just dropped their new single “Night Time Riders”, Sydney thrash/death maniacs 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗥𝗔𝗭𝗘𝗥 who have shared with stage with some huge acts such as Destruction, Metal Church, Soilwork etc. Speaking of Soilwork who were also supported in Adelaide by SA heavyweights 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗘, a killer addition to the fest on the local front.

Making their overdue first appearance we have Melbourne’s 𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗙𝗧, hard rock with quirk, traditional heavy metal with a twist. Coining themselves ‘riff n roll’, 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗦 are a thumping cavalcade of sweeping riffs and soaring vocals all sealed together with an impervious rhythm section that undeniably sways a mass of attention their way with each and every show they play. Also for their first appearance Melbourne’s 𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗧 𝗔𝗙𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗜𝗗𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 busting out big riffs, sing-along tunes, thundering bass and drums, and melodic solos that take you to a place that only the Riot lads can do!

All mashed together with some local legends opening up the festival, hailing from the dirty south hard rock legends 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗛 𝗘𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧, groove metallers 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗗, hard rockers 𝗟𝗢𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗬 and young guns, thrash/death newcomers 𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗭𝗘𝗡.

CHURCHES OF STEEL VII LINEUP:

Angelus Apatrida (Spain)
Witchskull (ACT)
Hidden Intent
Elm Street (Album Launch – VIC)
Wicked Smile (VIC)
Killrazer (NSW)
HEADBORE
Flitcraft Aus (VIC)
Dirty Pagans
Riot After Midnight (VIC)
Trench Effect
Stoved
Loaded Billy
Denazen

Saturday, February 17th 2024
UniBar Adelaide
All ages
12pm-midnight

Tickets at Moshtix, link on the event page here

https://moshtix.com.au/…/churches-of-steel-vii…/158494

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