DJ set!

It's all Slayer's eve (i.e. the day before Rottfest and the International Day for Slayer) and Nevermore and Ten Years will be in Belfast preparing for the aural assault on our collective metal sanity with Devildriver. Being such top blokes and all round nice people members of Nevermore and Ten Years have tentatively agreed to perform a DJ set at the Rotterdam. Details to follow once it's all confirmed, but here's hoping Ten Years air their own ...Isis and Nevermore thie Narcosynthesis to let the uninitiated prepare for Rottfest!

Count the posters!1

Want to be part of Rottfest? Want to earn a t-shirt? Then be part of the Rottfest street team!

To join, simply count the posters you can find, email them to this address, together with a pic of you and your m8s beside one, we'll then organise you to receive a Rottfest goodie bag!

Ten Years back on the Rottfest bill!

American metal upstarts Ten Years have been added to the Rottfest bill. This means seven bands now confirmed for Belfast's first ever open air metal festival - and all of it taking place on the International Day of Slayer! How fucking metal is that!

Rottfest keystone in week of rock

Rottfest is turning into the keystone event in a week of metal and rock madness in Ireland. Therapy? are playing on the Sunday, then Rottfest (get yer arses on to www.ticketmaster.ie if you haven't got your tickets for the Nevermore and Devildriver metal feast yet!) then Sick of It All, then Gunners, then 'Tallica. Oh deep metal joy \m/, oh someone tell the tourist board, tell the minister for finance - there's an entire metal economy here in one week!