Pethrophile Promotions

03/03/2024

Urban Assault Photo's Part 3

Soundofphotography

03/03/2024

Urban Assault Photos part 2

Soundofphotography

03/03/2024

Urban Assault 2024 photo's part 1

I'm blown away by the quality of these , Soundofphotography is just in a league of his own , go follow him and support :)

03/03/2024

26/02/2024

26/02/2024

26/02/2024

The Grief - full performance from Urban Assault, Cork on 24th Feb, 2024Set list:1. A New Dawn2. Disenthrall3. In Defiance4. Crucible5. Through Fire & Rain6.T...

26/02/2024

For Ruin - Live at the Urban Assault Festival, Cork, Ireland - Feb 24, 2024Lineup:Guitars - Paul QuinnDrums - Steve O'ConnellBass - Pete LawlorGuitars & Voca...

22/02/2024

22/02/2024

Last chance to order stuff from Sentinel Records ahead of Urban Assault 2024.
Don't miss out!

Last call for Urban Assault. Order through the site and choose local pick up. Please don't message or email as it may not be seen in time.

19/02/2024

This Thursday Abaddon Incarnate, Molekh, Domhain @ Whelan's
This Friday @ Voodoo Belfast with INDOMINUS
This Saturday @ Urban Assault 2024, Cork (An Spailpin Fanach)

18/02/2024

New episode is out NOW 🎙️ On this weeks show and .mcguane discuss the upcoming edition of Urban Assault 🔥 have fired together a line up consisting of .incarnate.official 🔥 Just under a week to go, most of us from the podcast will be there 🔥 Check out this episode wherever you get your podcasts from 🎙️

14/02/2024

12/02/2024

*** LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY ***

Pre-Sale tickets are still available, but only until this coming Sunday.
Be aware, remaining tickets ARE LIMITED and moving steadily.
Don't let them slip away!

TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-assault-2024-tickets-619394153587

TEES 'n' TICKETS: https://urbanassaultcork.bigcartel.com/

Urban Assault 2024 Pethrophile Promotions Irish Metal Archive The The Metal Cell Podcast Burning Metal Irl Mourning Beloveth Abaddon Incarnate For Ruin Strangle Wire The Grief Hasturian Vigil
Invictus Productions Sentinel Records An Spailpin Fanach

10/02/2024

Official launch at Urban Assault 2024.
Get your orders in...

07/02/2024

Poster for the Dublin gig looks deadly in real life.
Gavin Doyle always does fantastic graphic work for us

Abaddon Incarnate , Molekh, Domhain

05/02/2024

Metal webstore, label and distro, based in Dublin, Ireland. Distributor of Metal Blade, Century Media, High Roller, Peaceville, Sony, Warner, No Remorse, Temple of Mystery, Cruz Del Sur, Earache, Relapse and more.

24/01/2024

ONE MONTH WARNING!!!
Don't miss out.

Tickets and T-Shirts...

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-assault-2024-tickets-619394153587

https://urbanassaultcork.bigcartel.com/

16/01/2024

Two classic debut albums getting re-released by Sentinel Records.
Pre-orders coming next month.
Check out the labels website and upcoming stalls (including Urban Assault 2024, Cork, 24th Feb with Mourning Beloveth 😉).

Preorder coming next month.

Mourning Beloveth 'Dust' on DLP on 140g (clear w/ black smoke), limited to 300 copies. A2 poster. Mastered for vinyl by Greg Chandler. New artwork and layout by Paul McCarroll. Originally released on DLP in 2008.

Primordial 'Imrama' for the first time on 180g Picture LP housed in printed sleeve.Limited to 300 copies. Layout by Paul McCarroll.

Keep an eye on www.sentinelrecords.com

06/12/2023

Competition for a free entry and a shirt for Urban Assault 2024 on our Instagram, check it out and enter !

23/11/2023

🤘 Attention Metalheads ! 🤘

We've noticed a surge in ticket sales for Urban Assault in the past few weeks. Thanks to everyone who's already grabbed their tickets – your support means a lot!

And those of you planning on going who haven't purchased a ticket yet , please get on it to avoid disappointment because when the venue is full it is totally out of our hands to let more people in!

In addition to the tickets, we're offering exclusive concert T-shirts for PRESALE which you can buy now and collect on the day.

There WILL NOT BE T-shirts available on the day that aren't from the PRESALE ! Grab yours now to lock in this limited edition gear.

Better yet, snag a bundle deal with your ticket purchase!

Secure your T-shirt and ticket bundle ➡️

https://urbanassaultcork.bigcartel.com/?fbclid=IwAR18-GrbcY3uqlrTDiD9DxiBXTLeJrVjht53ofTbKq5cyCXjCOw1Qo_g4nA

Let's gear up for a night of pure metal madness that we have been waiting 4 years for! Spread the word, tag your pals, and get ready the best Urban Assault to date!

14/11/2023

Lovely Tapes!!! 🤘🤘🤘

The Grief Urban Assault 2024

New Cassette!

We're happy to announce a partnership with Aonair Records on a limited edition cassette release of our latest album CRUCIBLE! Its a cool green tape featuring our Crucible artwork and lyrics on the inlay card and only 10euro! Now available in very limited quantities at https://thegrief1.bandcamp.com/merch

11/11/2023

As an added treat to the Cork metal hordes, we will be welcoming a couple of labels/distros to join us at Urban Assault 2024...
First up we have the mighty Invictus Productions selling their metal wares and who we are delighted to have on board for the event.

Buy your tickets here...
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-assault-2024-tickets-619394153587

Metal record label, mail order, distributor and concert promoter based in Dublin, Ireland.

26/10/2023

Anyone out there interested in getting a t-shirt for the show.
We are considering doing a small run, but it will need to be pre-ordered to work out sizes and most likely collected at the gig.
Let us know here if it's something you would be intertested in?

20/09/2023

Doom/Death stalwarts of the Irish metal scene and arguably ‘ONE OF THE BEST’ metal band to come out of Ireland. Never ones to rush themselves, they are methodical in their art and always put plenty of thought, patience and experience into each and every one of their release.

Mourning Beloveth began in winter 1992 but it wasn’t until 1996 that they recorded their first "untitled" demo. Recorded in eight hours, this demo contains two songs and is a raw indication of where MOURNING BELOVETH stood in the doom death scene. Two years later "Autumnal Fires" came to fruition. A 40-minute piece of music, it's songs intertwined with classical piano, it showed a huge progression in the writing and recording stakes. Receiving “Demo of the issue” in Moondance magazine, it is classed as Doom/Death and was their first step into achieving a sound of their own with the integration of clean vocals. Over 1200 copies of Autumnal Fires ware sold throughout the underground and the MB name spread.

Deciding to take a bold step, like so many of their contemporaries, they recorded in the famous Academy studios with Magz at the helm. What was produced after seven intense days of recording was "Dust", a sixty-six minute Doom masterpiece harking back to the days of the early Doom/Death scene with some of the heaviest and most melancholic music ever. The atmosphere and originality is helped by the greater usage of clean and growling vocals and the amazing production courtesy of Mags. They returned to Academy Studios and Mags again in 2002 to record "The Sullen Sulcus", a torturous and epic listen with six songs over 65 minutes.

Touring brought them far and wid including month long trek across the U.S. And when they returned home with sights set on their next album. The writing was long and the songs were sounding a bit different than before so they decided on a new studio, finally choosing Studio E in Germany run by Markus Stock, to record "A Murderous Circus". The album turned into a double album and the recording sessions over three weeks were arduous. They had created an album that while remaining in the confines of the death/doom scene has a lot of experimentation. The album is bleak, desolate and melancholic and the lyrics dealing with the excesses of man show another side of our sound which we was not present before.

Again returning to Studio E in Germany in October 2007. More focused during the recording sessions, that intensity comes out in the songs that emerged on "A Disease for the Ages", 5 songs over 56 minutes of torturous death/doom metal. Although recorded in the same studio as "A Murderous Circus" the sound is the polar opposite. The only conscious decision they made about the album before recording that the album must be heavy with a fuller sound. "AMC" had meandering and desolate guitars and almost revels in the human excesses, "ADFTA" fills your ears till they bleed.

As time slips by, MOURNING BELOVETH seem to revel in it's passing. They release a split 10" in 2009 with fellow Irish doom merchants WRECK OF THE HESPERUS, contributing an 8-minute cover of 'The Weeping Song' by NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS. And eventually, five years after "ADFTA", they released another double album in "Formless", disc one with 5 songs and clocking in at 67-minutes and the second disc featuring the track 'Transmissions' - a haunting piece of spoken word with a simple guitar accompaniment. Thankfully the wait for it's follow-up wouldn't as long and "Rust & Bone" was released in late 2015 on Ván Records. Classed as a full length album it feels more like an EP in MOURNING BELOVETH standards. It features 3 primary lengthy tracks split by 2 shorter instrumentals.

The MB train has since slowed down again, with only a split release with THE RUINS OF BEVERAST coming out in 2020. But work is currently underway on their next album.

https://youtu.be/9iI-glPhefI?si=F_393igMYU6ibCAM

Words by Irish Metal Archive

Get your tickets to see Mourning Beloveth at Urban Assault 2024 here : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-assault-2024-tickets-619394153587

Urban Assault is glad to be working with the following:
Gav Doyle - Symmetry Industry Studios
The Metal Cell Podcast

From the album Formless

18/09/2023

https://youtu.be/Lc_a20OFDi0?si=acXc51Z5dnJ0Dopu

Disenthrall - the lead single from second album from Irish doom metal band THE GRIEF.

Disenthrall comes from the 2023 album "Crucible", released Oct 6th 2023.

Music By J. Murphy, Lyrics by S. Quinn
Copyright The Grief 2023

You can support The Grief at https://thegrief1.bandcamp.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/griefdoommetal

page of Cork doom metal band The Grief