Retribution Alive: Dark Clouds Vth Anniversary

A London concert marking the fifth anniversary of the Dark Clouds event organised by Retribution Alive, headlined by the British black metal band Hecate Enthroned, with the Scottish project Ruadh also on the bill.

Hecate Enthroned is a British black metal band formed in Wrexham in 1993, and it has been active in the UK underground for more than three decades. Guitarist Nigel Dennen is among those who founded the group in the mid-1990s. Its debut album, The Slaughter of Innocence, was released by Blackend Records in 1997 and produced by Andy Sneap. In 2019 the band issued Embrace of the Godless Aeon on M-Theory Audio, its first recording with vocalist Joe Stamps, and several further studio releases have followed.

Critics have described the group's sound as death metal aggression combined with black metal atmosphere. Ruadh, the other act on the bill, is an atmospheric black metal project led by Tom Perrett from Glasgow, Scotland.

The Black Heart is a London venue that mainly hosts concerts, with a programme centred on pop, rock and indie music. The evening is aimed at followers of extreme metal, and it marks the fifth anniversary of the Dark Clouds event organised by Retribution Alive.