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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has called on the programme to scrap the 'despicable' trials involving live animals.

Words: Jay Williams (@jaywilliamspr) If proof were needed that 'desert rock' - as the genre has been lazily entitled - is a state of mind rather than a state of, say, Southern California, then it comes in the opening minute of the third track of Psychlona's debut album Mojo Rising; "Down in the vall-EH," announces singer Phil Hey, proudly stamping Bradford well and truly onto the map. There's nothing remotely sun-kissed about this album.  It's a gas-guzzling dumper truck bearing...

Event - Damnation Festival 2018Location - University of LeedsDate - 3.11.18Photos - Graham Berry  For one weekend a year the University of Leeds campus becomes one of the heaviest places in the world.  Damnation Festival returned for its crushing 13th edition in 2018, bringing some of the world's most renowned acts in heavy music together for a day of tinnitus-inducing, brain-bludgeoning doom, death and grind. Check out the full gallery from Damnation 2018 below, featuring TLE favourites MØL, Ihsahn, Entombed A.D.,...

Nottingham’s Rock City venue had to be evacuated during a at around 9.30pm on November 16 when a suspected pepper spray was released into the crowd during American rap artist Lil Pump's set

The thirteenth iteration of Damnation Festival rolled into Leeds this past weekend, bringing together some of the finest names in extreme and experimental music from all over the world.  The annual event took over the entirety of Leeds University Student’s Union, spreading its tendrils across four stages and allowing almost thirty bands to bludgeon the sold out crowd with their various sonic assaults. UK grindcore pioneers Napalm Death headlined the main stage, leaving absolutely no-one in the room questioning if...

The Black Country Museum in the West Midlands has been transformed into the set for the hit TV show.

One cannot help but marvel at the genius exploits of the life of Isaac Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus, and Leonardo da Vinci. Yet prior to these great men of science came Ulugh Beg. His little-known life and work are now featured in a Tashkent premiere documentary “The Man Who Unlocked the Universe” and this film will surely make Ulugh Beg be seen in the same light as the great pioneers of scientific discovery. Ulugh Beg was born in 1394 in...

A man got the shock of his life after his TV remote suddenly caught fire whilst he was upstairs having a shower.

I will call Phil Nichol tomorrow at noon. I was meant to call Phil Nichol today at noon, but I got stuck in a meeting about which shade of green is the best (subjective, no?) and we have to reschedule. Which is fine - he tells me, when we do speak at the following noon - because it gave him the opportunity to go backstage at a play he was in last year. He's got that, "Everything happens for a...