Essex Invasion! Three of the hardest bands showing EAHC what's up. Heel Turn & Brainstem holding down the fort.

Line Up:

Toil
Heel Turn
Lingchi
Out of Spite
Brainstem

Concrete Vehicles (formerly Computer) is an expressive and chaotic post-punk band from Vancouver, Canada. They're adding an extra date to their tour (including sets at Outbreak/All Points East fest, support for Alexisonfire) to swing by Dead Wax. FFO: early Black Country, New Road, Shame, Model/Actriz, DITZ, The Armed, the Jesus Lizard.

Support from new post-punk mob, Slag Heap and and noisy midwest emo quartet Toast

The Sickos Secret Cinema returns upstairs at Dead Wax with more 90 minute movie madness.

Freaky oddities you wouldn’t watch with your mum! From sincere social commentary to delicious trash! For the connoisseur of the obscure or the filthy casual, the Sickos Secret Cinema has something for everyone.

7.30, free entry, come in your millions, sickos.

Cult indie-rock powerhouse and purveyors of frenetic, twiddly, shouty emo-adjacent anthems, Johnny Foreigner, return to Norwich after more than a decade away, and it couldn't come a second sooner. Armed with a new record of bile-drenched bangers directed at the state of their hometown of Birmingham, and a back catalogue of some of the best indie rock nuggets known to man, this will be a special 'un.

'Scavenger Gospel' release gig

‘The real deal, a demon picker’ – UNCUT MAGAZINE

BBC Folk Awards ‘Best Musician’ nominee Dan Walsh combines ‘virtuoso playing and winning songwriting’ (MORNING STAR). Describing what Dan does is no easy task but at the heart of it is British, Irish and American folk music delivered with a healthy dose of funky grooves – all performed with his unique and dazzling take on clawhammer style banjo helping to challenge all preconceptions about the instrument.

Add to all that poignant songs, astonishing musical departures and lively humour and the result is a truly memorable live show which has wowed audiences across the world from intimate seated rooms to huge dancing crowds in festival fields. Walsh has recorded five albums to much critical acclaim and he is an in demand performer with a hectic touring schedule in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and throughout Europe. Both solo and as a member of the award winning Urban Folk Quartet, this unique and eclectic musician has stunned audiences across the world.

One of the most incredible musicians I’ve heard in years – Bruce MacGregor, BBC Radio Scotland

If one name is synonymous with the revival of interest in the banjo, it’s Dan Walsh – Living Tradition

A real world class banjo player – Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6
Absolutely terrific – Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2

The real deal, a demon picker -Uncut

His banjo playing is second to none in the UK and he’d put many to shame in the US too – RnR Magazine

Matches up virtuoso playing with winning songwriting – Morning Star

The Sickos Secret Cinema returns upstairs at Dead Wax with more 90 minute movie madness.

Freaky oddities you wouldn’t watch with your mum! From sincere social commentary to delicious trash! For the connoisseur of the obscure or the filthy casual, the Sickos Secret Cinema has something for everyone.

7.30, free entry, come in your millions, sickos.

Iceni Green make Raggo N City hip hop that moves effortlessly from gritty street shit to the more abstract EA styles. East Anglian hip-hop heavyweights Sleeps Cousin, Ricky Lix, DPF, Reds, and Lieu.

Support from Alecs DeLarge, Kasumu & Bertinho

As always, free entry, tell yr friends, come down early, watch all the acts, buy some merch, nod yer head. Let's ride.

Erotic Secrets of Pompeii play wild, weird apocalyptic lounge music - a

twisted amalgamation of angular art rock and transgressive post-punk,

transmitted directly from the heart of the forbidden zone.

+ SUPPORTS TO BE ANNOUNCED

New band PINN (featuring members of A Light Between Oceans, Reno Dakota, I Was A Cub Scout, Slowly, Summers Colour and many more) celebrate the release of their debut EP at Dead Wax. Swirling post-rock and hulking 90's riffs, taking influence from Deftones, My Bloody Valentine and Teenage Wrist.

Support comes from grungey alt-rockers Sickener, and new post-hardcore inflected indie rock mob, Kade Hates Me (ft members of Pretty Terry)

Norwich hardcore leg-ends🦵, Bind. come to Dead Wax for a big hardcore show with supporting bands, How Long You Been Driving, Demeanour & Victims of Life.

This is a right naughty ol’ lineup actually with lots of two-stepping, crowd-killing nonsense. Come in your trillions!

The Sickos Secret Cinema returns upstairs at Dead Wax with more 90 minute movie madness.

Freaky oddities you wouldn’t watch with your mum! From sincere social commentary to delicious trash! For the connoisseur of the obscure or the filthy casual, the Sickos Secret Cinema has something for everyone.

7.30, free entry, come in your millions, sickos.

Sam Russo

A quietly defiant and singular voice in folk and punk for decades, Sam Russo returns to Norwich for the first time in years for an intimate show at Dead Wax.

‘An artist who seems to get better and better with every release’ - Gen Handley, Rolling Stone

‘Sam is one of the most remarkable musicians that I've encountered.’ - Frank Turner

FFO: Samiam, The Weakerthans, Alkaline Trio, Bright Eyes, Lucero

Sophie Porter:

Before she was in Other Half and the pages of Rolling Stones magazine, Sophie Porter was a darling of the DIY folk-punk scene and the fastest strummer in the UK. For the first time in over a decade, she'll be playing solo again. Lucky you.

James Hull:

Part spit, part sawdust and all heart, James Hull’s songwriting sits somewhere between squat punk and Parisian café noir with a panoramic lyricism that defies classification. A compass spinning blend of grandeur and grime, his sound brings to mind those birds that mimic car alarms.

As bassist in Apologies, I Have None he’s always called himself a Londoner, but James has also fallen hard for Norwich. Since moving back to the Fine City, he’s been writing new material for an upcoming solo release - his first since 2022’s This Be The Mannekensvere.

Diving Deep Sessions create artist-centred gigs like no other. Join us for a night with Bag of Cans, including an interview and support!

Diving Deep Sessions are back! Each session will start off with an interview, a support act and, after coming up for air, a live session from the headline act themselves.

Dive deep with us and enjoy the Norwich music scene at its finest and most brilliant.

Bag of Cans

Bag of Cans are the best band to sing about washing machines but they are also pretty good at singing about hangover cures, milkmen and Colchester Leisure Centre.

A kind of punky Britpop but with a trumpet and maybe some vegetables.

Phage Records and KillTown Bookings present:

Infectious Entropy UK/IRE Tour, ft CEREMONIAL BLOODBATH & CRYPTWORM

Tuesday, 20th OctoberDeadwax, NorwichDoors: 19:00Advance tickets: £15

CEREMONIAL BLOODBATH

Ceremonial Bloodbath formed in 2015 for the singlepurpose of creating extreme raw metal that creates chaotic, swarming hellscapes with barbaric rhythms holding the caving ground underneath. This 4-piece hails from Canada's West Coast in allegiance to sculpt their anti-music which began entirely committed to themes of ritual human sacrifice.

Born beneath a black hole in Vancouver, BC and founded by Abysmal Berserker, Faceless Infinity, and Nuclear Hammer Throne, the project developed and began to conjure and include blasphemic themes. The Nocturnal Black joined the projectduring the recording of their first LP "The Tides of Blood" released in 2020, which shifted the live rituals to include simultaneous violent doubled vocals. In 2023, "Genesis of Malignant Entropy" was released featuring 9 tracks of twisted sonic chaos, developing the band's sound further.

Most releases from the band feature fully developed and original samples created by lead guitarist Abysmal Berserker, which are often featured in live performances. Callers of nuclear Armageddon, from beyond, decipherers of the unnameablesickness - driven mad by unholy flute and war drums of a sadistic deity - Ceremonial Bloodbath, desecrators of the holy man's moral oasis and extractors of perverse soul.

A horde of abominable sonic extermination come together to summon a darkened scourge of complete bestial death metal and aural abandon in UK and Ireland for the only the second time ever!

https://www.facebook.com/ceremonialbloodbath/https://ceremonialbloodbath.bandcamp.com/.../genesis-of...https://www.instagram.com/ceremonialbloodbathhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/4Oi6E5DJUfdlZqf5MrSPZw?si=9XeNVWhWR_e5pdLuz1FB1A&nd=1&dlsi=25bfe96dd9c1488c

CRYPTWORM

Formed in 2014 by Tibor Hanyi and Joe Knight, Cryptworm have become one of the most prolific UK underground death metal bands in the past decade. After several EPs, demos and splits, they released their long-awaited debut full length album in 2022 which was also the last release featuring the original line up.

Following the success of their debut album and a new line up featuring Joss Farrington (Cryptic Shift & Seprevation) on bass and Jay Wintle (Seprevation) on drums, Cryptworm returned with its follow-up, “Oozing Radioactive Vomition”, another rancid affair of true Death Metal abhorrence.

After 2 years of festivals and tours supporting the second album Cryptworm is back with their 3rd album released by Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Extremely Rotten Productions in early 2026. Their new offering injects even more fury and unpleasantries into the already crushing sound they had carefully built, taking things even further into the abyssal murk of the underground for all real maniacs to revel in the molten rot on display. If the song titles such as “Drowning in Purulent Excrementia” and “Gastrointestinal Seepage” don’t already give you an idea of what to expect, then allow your ears to fall victim to the sonic suppuration of Cryptworm’s most malformed release to date.

https://www.cryptworm.bandcamp.comhttps://www.instagram.com/cryptwormofficialhttps://www.facebook.com/cryptworm

PLAGUED

Plagued is a five-piece death metal band from East Anglia, UK, formed in 2024. The band's debut EP "Rotting Dominions", released last February, presents old-school death metal with a modern sound, bringing together influences from each of the members, including old-school death metal, Swedish death metal, hardcore, metalcore, and thrash metal.

The material is built around riff-driven song-writing, a modern Swedish guitar sound, and powerful, aggressive vocals, combining hardcore grooves with crushing fast death metal riffs.

https://plagueduk.com/https://www.facebook.com/Plagued.UKhttps://www.instagram.com/plagued.ukhttps://plagueduk.bandcamp.com/https://open.spotify.com/album/2jna9fGfc9BtYq4qs4bRXn...

Huge Co-headline show this September with two giants of the scene at the moment, Italian noise hardcore legends Stormo and, hot off their monumental debut album Rot, Eastbourne experimental doom, Believe In Nothing.

On Supports we have two new up and coming East Anglian bands. Electronic Hardcore from PIGG, FFO: Death Grips, Machine Girl.

And Kings Lynn-based deathcore, Vermin, FFO: Rev3rent, Suicide Silence.

LIMITED NUMBER OF DISCOUNTED EARLY BIRD TICKETS

San Vito Ryder is bringing his raw creative energy to our stage - his first time in Norwich.
Fabergé Falls have chosen us to host the Norwich date of their UK tour! Check out their album Blue Light Filter for Psychedelic sounds.
Epic Norwich band Toast are opening to get things off from the get go.

We are excited to host at Dead Wax for the first time and are so excited!! Don’t forget to grab those early bird discounted tickets now whilst they last and get the date in your phone. 29.10.2026

We are a small independent promoter who don’t take a profit. All proceeds go back to the artists so please support them by grabbing a ticket. They’ve travelled a long way to play to you x

Leave your problems at the door and be part of something eyebrow raising and smirk jerking. BLAND is a show that has all the grandeur of something extraordinary but still feels like something you can wrap yourself in. It’s a hangout, it’s a show, it’s a night out where familiarity meets the thrill of uncertainty. A cocktail of four acts, live music, poetry, stand up, sketch and everything else that entertains. Also – vinyl bingo. Support emerging talent.

Hosted by Jack Garden.

After a busy year of festivals UK and overseas, The Cain Pit, fresh from studio, invite you to party. This intimate show will give you one last Cain Pit fix before the band hibernates until the new year. 
Hitch up those britches for those punkgrass vibes you've come to know and love. Double time, double bass thacking, guitar thrashin', banjo twangin fun!

VERY SPECIAL GUESTS: EAST TOWN PIRATES. We are absolutely HONORED to have those legendary pirate punks, East Town Pirate. They will be sailing from the dark oceans of Ipswich, kicking things off.

This is a SMALL CAP venue - these tickets WON'T BE AROUND FOR LONG. So come get your fill!!

Oakenthrone was formed in 2022 by founder and composer Simon Nagington.

Originally as a solo project; his unique take on the black metal genre was forged in

the 2 track tape releases of “Embers of Reverie” (2024) and “Astral Binding & the

Oathsworn” (2025). Both cassettes sold out immediately and pushed Oakenthrone to

the top of the Bandcamp UK Black Metal page where it has retained a foothold

since.

2025 saw Oakenthrone develop into a full live band. Recruiting Nathan Caven (ex-

Sathamel), Andrew Hunt (ex-Pist) and Ant Hurlock (ex-Mairu); the debut live

performance came in October at the Call of the Crow festival to huge praise. A

festival exclusive split cassette with fellow festival performers and dungeon synth

stalwarts, Gate Master, was put out. These tracks, along with the previous cassettes,

were later packaged together for Darkwoods Records in a CD format – “Paths Once

Trodden (2024-2025)”.

In March 2026, Oakenthrone joined Scottish black metal pioneers, Saor, on the UK

leg of their Amidst the Ruins tour. Becoming a pivotal moment for the band and

cemented them as a commanding live force in the UK scene.

The 20 th of November 2026 will see the release of Oakenthrone’s debut album “Ad

Silvam” through Vendetta Records. A culmination of all that has come before, this is

a true forging of a new path.