With all the brouhaha regarding summer outdoor festivals, we somewhat neglected a springtime indoor one that’s taking place on our very doorstep – DesertFest. Today is the third and final day of the first London incarnation of the festival, where more than 50 stoner, doom, spacerock and sludge bands have been giving the foundations of Camden Town a solid shake-up. If – like us – you had to miss this year’s festival, you can at least console yourself with the Spotify Slaylist we’ve made in the festival’s honour.

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After claiming Fields Of The Nephilim as their first headliner, the good folk at Hellfire Festival have confirmed that Tesseract, Viking Skull, Rise To Remain, Spit Like This, Sacred Mother Tongue and October File are all to perform at the festival in November.

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Are you bored of April Fool’s jokes yet? We are. People keep sending us obviously fake news stories in the hope we’ll run them. Oh, the japes. It’s enough to drive a man to drink. Which is handy, because Viking Skull have just released a brand new video about doing just that.

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Viking Skull
Doom, Gloom, Heartache & Whiskey
Powerage Records
03 November 2008

by Hugh Platt

While they might’ve started as a joke spin-off band from Corby bruisers, Raging Speedhorn, Viking Skull have long since mutated, growing strong following the patronage of one Bam Margera, and the recruitment of his brother, CKY sticksman Jess Margera, for tub-thumping duties. Doom, Gloom, Heartache & Whiskey, the band’s third album, finds them in as crude health as ever.

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