Femetalism

22/09/2025

⚡🔥 Festival – what a day! 🔥⚡

Saturday 20th September was absolutely packed with incredible bands and non-stop music from start to finish. The venue, the sound, the atmosphere – all spot on – and there was even some gorgeous merch to take home. 🖤🤘

The line-up did not disappoint: Tellers Scribe Speaking With Spirits Firmament UK Echoes of Obsidian Jack-knife Soul Shredder 40,000 Leagues ThunarWülf and Earthbound.

Craig had his camera with him and grabbed a few snaps. As always, we’re there first and foremost to enjoy and support the bands, so photos are secondary – but I think his shots came out absolutely phenomenal! 📸🔥

Huge shoutout to everyone who played, organised, and showed up to make Powerlines Festival such a success. I really hope this is the first of many Powerlines Festival!! 🖤🤘 Artful Witch Promotions

19/09/2025

⚡🔥 The wait is almost over… tomorrow we head to Powerlines Festival!

A brand-new metal festival with a mix of power, symphonic, melodic and alt sounds – and what a line-up it is:

Tellers Scribe, Speaking With Spirits, Firmament, Echoes of Obsidian, Jack-knife, Soul Shredder, 40,000 Leagues, ThunarWülf and Earthbound. 🤘

Femetalism might not be back up and running at full capacity just yet – for the same reasons we took a long hiatus – but we’re still here supporting the local metal scene as much as possible, and genuinely working on finding a way to get Femetalism back to something like its former glory.

Discounted £10 advance tickets online before 11:59pm tonight or it’s £15 on the door from 1:30pm (cash & card).

Who is coming? 🤘🖤🔥

15/09/2025

✨ New on the blog! ✨

We’ve followed APRIL WEEPS since the early Femetalism days, first discovering them on Bandcamp and finally seeing them live in Slovakia in 2022. Now they’re back with a powerful new single and video, “Good Vibes Only” a striking look at toxic positivity wrapped in their signature atmospheric metal.

Read our full feature here
https://www.femetalism.com/blog/april-weeps-unveil-new-single-and-video

06/06/2025

🔮 Introducing Mystic Tea Party

I absolutely love learning about new bands, both locally and more internationally and Mystic Tea Party crossed my desk at just the right time this week.

🇦🇺 Hailing from Melbourne, this genre-blurring duo Mystic Tea Party have just released their mesmerising new single “The Looking Glass”, and it’s a must-listen for fans of dark, cinematic soundscapes.

🎧The Looking Glass is an electronic requiem for identity lost, a track that captures that surreal moment when you no longer recognise the person staring back at you. Blending elements of alt-pop, trip-hop, industrial rock, and Avant-electronica, this release marks their most experimental and emotionally raw work to date.

🔮Fronted by the lyrically vulnerable Blume, and produced by guitarist and sound architect Sebastian, Mystic Tea Party craft an immersive world where sound and storytelling collide. Think Portishead meets David Lynch, strange, haunting, and beautifully cinematic.

✨ Since debuting in 2023, this self-made duo has been steadily building a global following, known for their DIY ethos, immersive visuals, and evocative song writing. Every element, from production to styling, is created by the band themselves.

📀 Their debut EP is planned for later this year, and “The Looking Glass” gives a powerful glimpse of what’s to come.

🎧 Stream the new single now on all platforms - https://mysticteaparty.fanlink.tv/the-looking-glass

02/06/2025

It will have been 10 years next year since we last saw Northern Oak on stage and they promised us a 10 year reunion tour soooo ... looking forward to finding out what this is all about 🤘🖤🌳 eeek

02/06/2025

What. A. Final.

We had an absolute blast at the Metal 2 the Masses Sheffield 2025 Final last weekend five killer finalists, a stacked lineup of guest bands, and one hell of a crowd.

Although you've probably already heard, we’re absolutely buzzing to say the winners were the phenomenal ThunarWülf who blew the roof off with their thunder-charged blend of folk and metal. They’ll be heading to Bloodstock Open Air to represent Sheffield, and we couldn’t be more excited for them!

Shout out to the other amazing finalists Firmament UK Soul Grief Descendancy and Echoes of Obsidian, every single one smashed it and made it a night to remember.

Also hats off to the guest bands who rounded out the day: Aonia, Deformation of Man, Kilonova, IL and the mighty Hecate Enthroned - what a lineup!

Here are some of the photos we managed to capture across the day of the finalist, snapshots of an incredible event.

We’re already counting down Bloodstock now!

26/04/2025

We’re really looking forward to heading to Sidney & Matilda tomorrow afternoon for a seriously exciting gig - Ask My Bull and Bovidae are hitting the stage and it’s set to be a good one!

Ask My Bull are a Manchester-based three-piece who bring a huge, electrified sound. Think raging saxophone, thundering distorted bass, and intricate, driving drum grooves. Their music is a wild fusion - the energy of punk, the danceability of drum’n’bass, and the nuance of jazz, all wrapped up into something totally cinematic and exhilarating.

Joining them are Sheffield’s own Bovidae, a progressive instrumental quartet blending heavy metal, classical and jazz into a sound that’s as intense as it is intricate. Praised for their complex time signatures, genre-defying style, and relentless energy, Bovidae have been making serious waves and their latest single 'Clappands' is out now on all streaming platforms.

Tickets are just £8 advance - doors open at 2PM.
Come down early and join us for an afternoon of incredible live music!

23/11/2024

A fantastic evening at Rescue Rooms, Nottingham tonight to see the fabulous Charlotte Wessels 🤘 Picked up the Splatter Vinyl and a tote plus the gorgeous Patreon Pin 😍😍😍

Added bonus of the night being The Intersphere and VOLA who were blooming phenomenal! 😍

Emma and Craig 🤘

25/10/2024

What a great night we had at ROCK CITY last night seeing the fab Lacuna Coil supported by Blind Channel 🖤🤘

Early doors so mad dash to get there from Sheffield but we made it and had a great view.

Lacuna Coil were fantastic. We worked out it's 10 years since we last saw them which actually blew out minds! Great set list with some classics alongside some of their new, heavier stuff! Loved the branded jumpsuits and face paint! 👻 It was great fun! At least we don't have to wait as long to see them next time as they are playing BOA 25!

Accessibility

I had pre-arranged accessible access when I bought the tickets which was a very easy process and they were super helpful. On the night we arrived and made ourselves known to the door staff. We were meant to arrive at 5.45 but didn't get there until 6.15 but they showed us in, sorted the seat and I managed to get a great view from the balcony. Very lovely to be honest and it's very rare with venues to feel that way. Two slight issues ... Seat was so uncomfortable and small, I couldn't keep myself on it, I kept sliding off 🤦‍♀️. No toilets on the balcony and there was no way I could get to the main one, down the stairs and right through and across the crowd to the side of the stage!?!? Bit bonkers really but didn't ruin the evening.

A great night all in all!

Emma and Craig 🖤🤘

05/09/2024

Linkin Park has a new singer and a new album on the way and we are here for it 😍

New single 👇

From Zero | The New Album | Available November 15th Pre-Order Now: https://lprk.co/fromzeroFollow Linkin Park: Tour Dates: http://lprk.co/tourOfficial Linkin...

28/07/2024

Paul had an absolutely awesome time last night seeing the phenomenal .knees and .uk. 🖤🤘

26/05/2024

Paul headed to the Metal2theMasses final last night at and by all accounts it was just a little bit awesome 🖤🤘

The competition was close and .band and .fracture were all fantastic!

However, huge congratulations to on their victory 🤘

Thoroughly enjoyed and made an awesome return. There were also fantastic sets from and .band.

It really was a perfect showcase of local and underground talent!