Beermageddon

A new Metal Festival in the Midlands you say? And only £38 for a ticket for 3 days including camping? Plus the aural delights of Morgue Orgy, Flayed Disciple, Kremated, Anihilated, Shrapnel and 15 others? Sign me up my good man!
So only 2 weeks after Bloodstock we found ourselves driving south again to get our Thrash on.
Beermageddon is held at the Stoke Prior Sports and Country Club (Posher than it sounds) in the village of er, Stoke Prior, just outside Bromsgrove in the W Midlands. It’s only a small Festival mainly catering for the smaller or unsigned Metal bands, which is great for me as i’m a bit of a champion of the smaller acts.
The Fest only holds a few hundred people, which makes it seem more like a 3 day party with friends than a Festival, which is great. The bands played inside the venue and we all camped on the playing fields just outside, we were camped and parked (yes you can park next to your tent) less than 100 yards from the club, meaning a very short stagger to and fro, which is always handy.
The calibre of bands on offer this year were top notch as far as my tastes go (they were all from the more extreme end of the Metal spectrum) and the attendees were all awesome, some really good friends were made and contacts gathered, and because pretty much all the bands were small they were all camping too and not an ego in sight!
Jim Beerman, the organiser, knows how to put on a Festival, and you can be pretty damn sure that we will be back to get battered, bruised, baked and blasted next year…\,/…