Under the needle

It was a balmy Spring evening in Camden Town, the air suffused with the familiar pungent odours of warm beer, kebab meat and choking exhaust fumes. Few would have suspected that beneath the sun-dappled streets, the Europe Under Black Death Metal Fire tour was about to rip up a blazing inferno of extreme music that would shake the iconic pillars and sticky, split-level floors of premier music venue the Underworld to its core. Darkrise and God Dethroned provided a fitting warm-

Taking their infernal inspiration from such revered lords of darkness as Dissection, Dark Funeral and Belphegor, Bane have carved out a smouldering niche for themselves since forming in 2006. Although yet to reach any particularly giddying heights of infamy, the Serbian purveyors of blackened death have found considerable success and left a significant, suitably clawed footprint on the scene, with a couple of full-length albums and countless tours behind them. The band are un