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Sabaton, Avatar and Rotting Christ join forces with a host of festival behemoths
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European Metal Festival Alliance is a live-streamed joint venture bringing together the best acts of 13 pandemic- halted independent festivals including Bloodstock, Brutal Assault, Dynamo, Midgardsblot and Summer Breeze, in a valiant attempt to conjure the much-missed metalhead communion that summer usually promises. CULT OF FIRE make for a ceremonial start, clad in ornate robes on a stage dripping in human skulls, snake thrones (really) and candelabras, but their emotive black metal at times risks being eclipsed by the onstage pageantry. VENOM PRISON instantly pulverise with the death/grind of Matriphagy. Larissa Stupar’s raw-throated convulsions are a much-needed focal point as they decimate what preceded them. KAMPFAR stand astride a stage incandescent with flaming candles and torches inside Midgardsblot’s…
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Metal Hammer UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2020