On a very chilly night in the back streets of Belfast metallers and rockers of all swathes huddled outside the iconic Voodoo, a bar that knows how to roll out tunes and a home to some fantastic metal and rock. The pilgrimage began with the walk up the well worn stairs, along the landing and into the temple of metal …

Ivor, the Happy Metal Geek, gets a chat with Dr Rabid Hell and Brother Pain of Evils Scarecrow before they go on stage in Voodoo, Belfast. www.evilscarecrow.co.uk/ www.facebook.com/Evil.Scarecrow/ twitter.com/EvilScarecrowUK www.patreon.com/evilscarecrow

Despite having been around since around 2002, Evil Scarecrow really only became properly well-known on the back of their astonishing set at Bloodstock in 2011, where they grabbed hold of their early (for a festival) set, wrestled it, debagged it and left it lying, spent, in a corner. The reaction was swift, with the Nottingham-based band gaining both national and …

Evil Scarecrow’s fourth album sees them take another giant leap forward with the release of this sumptuous monster of a record, blending metal and melodies with riffs, roars and razor wit, it is everything you would expect from these multi-talented and exceptionally creative musicians. Chapter IV: Antartarctica sees this unique band keeping their own surreal space-time continuum moving ever onwards …