There and Back Again a Tour Manager’s tale
Tour is over and what a tour it’s been. It was my great joy to spend a week roving the UK with two incredible bands - Riders of Rohan & Flickers From the Fen - who are both, it transpires, comprised of absolutely delightful human beings. What’s more we were pleasantly surprised to find similarly well dispositioned folk in each and every city that we did visit, and in such great numbers! A huge thank you to everyone who came out in London, Portsmouth, Bristol, Sheffield, Glasgow, and Newcastle, and to the venues and promoters who hosted us - Our Black Heart, The Edge of the Wedge, The Gryphon, The Lughole, The Old Hairdressers, and The Lubber Fiend - Matt, Dom, John, Danny, Duncan, Stu - and to all the bands who supported - Vortigan King, Coedwig, Arcane Oubliette, Endorsee, Mountainfog, and Crying Wolf.
Big shout out to Jaundice and Errol’s Hot Pizza too.
@ourblackheart@gryphonbristol@cosmicvibrationfest@lughole@crypticsteel@bykergrave@thelubberfiend
Crypt of the Wizard presen’th
Riders of Rohan & Flickers from the Fen
Middle-earth (UK) tour
21st - 26 July 2025
The becons are lit and two of the finest bands of our age are set to cross middle-earth on a perilous quest that they might free the land from the grip of evil and save all who dwell here.
Please won’t you lend us your swords, sheilds, and lofty ideals and join us in battle at the following locations:
Mon 21 London - The Black Heart
Tue 22 Portsmouth - Edge of the Wedge
Wed 23 Bristol - The Gryphon
Thu 24 Sheffield - The Lughole
Fri 25 Glasgow - The Old Hairdressers
Sat 26 Newcastle - The Lubberfiend
Ticket links in bio
@ridersofthemark@flickersfromthefen@cryptofthewizard #gondorcallsforaid
Crypt of the Wizard & Tatt Shack welcomes warriors of all stripes to the hallowed HEAVY METAL TATTOO FLASH DAY! Featuring flash from the finest hard rockin' tattoo artists in the business Simon Erl, Big Sainsburys, and Copperhead. With stalls of records, merch and more from Noise is for Heroes, Crypt of the Wizard, The Knight Archive, and Jack Sabbat, all set to a soundtrack of your nightmares. Its a real heavy metal jamboree, come get a tatt or don't... just come and peruse our wares and hang the heck out.
SATURDAY MAY 17th
12 midday - until whenever...
52a Brudenell Rd, Leeds LS6 1BD
London’s pastoral proto-metal power trio @parishnewsletter are stepping into the breach, filling in for their brothers in @sevensistersheavymetal in support of @officialsatanpage this September. We are delighted to have them added to the bill!
Satan + Parish - Wednesday 11th September - London, Downstairs at The Dome
Tickets: old-empire.co.uk / @seetickets
#satanband #parishband #oldempire
𓃶 ᴄʀʏᴘᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪᴢᴀʀᴅ 𓃶
On Friday, March 29th, we’re excited to have @cryptofthewizard all the way from London, in collaboration with @bornforburningla for an in-store listening party from 5–8pm.
Thee Wizard’s been responsible for releasing some of the most exceptional metal (and metal adjacent) records, tapes and CDs of recent years, including artists such as Parish, Heavy Sentence, Riders of Rohan, Peace Vaults, Coedwig, Dipygus, Hail Conjurer and many more.
In addition to that, Crypt Of The Wizard’s London shop (264 Hackney Rd) has become an indispensable hub for metal enthusiasts worldwide as well as a mandatory stop for anybody visiting the city.
Free entry / No RSVP
Limited space, be early
Friday, March 29th, 5–8pm
5403 ½ N Figueroa St
Los Angeles, CA 90042
www.estuario.la
323-507-2071
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Crypt of the Wizard Presen’th ABSOLUTE KEY & HAIL CONJURER live at Helgis November 25th
These two eternal entities shall provide for us a night of dark electronics and magick black metal ov thee highest order. Tickets available soon…
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@helgis_bar@absolutekey111@hailconjurer
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#cryptofthewizard #metalmakesusstrong #hailconjurer #absolutekey
Sunday March 12th from 4pm, the return of @helgis_bar Metal & Punk Record Fair!
Featuring over ten stalls with vinyl, tapes, shirts, patches, posters, memorabilia and more from some of your favourite underground filth peddlers such as @cryptofthewizard@mesacounojo@zipporecords and others.. rarities, essentials, bootlegs, one offs, stuff you didn't even know existed COME CHECK IT OUT at London's only dedicated metal and punk merch market
Steel thineselves mine mortal chums as thee time hast come for you to be dealt a Heavy Sentence.
Live at last deep from Helgi’s hellish bowels this September 11th thee boys from thee North shall descend upon us that they might celebrate thee release ov their debut LP out on Crypt of the Wizard records. Providing ample backup thee pastoral metal princes Parish.
And what’s more Sentence’s Gaz n’ Bry will be DJing muscular bangers til thee early morn’… a night that will live in infamy!
£7 tickets on thee door.
8pm Helgis 177 Mare Street
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#cryptofthewizard #metalmakesusstrong #heavysentence #helgisbar
There is much rejoicing today among thee congregation for at last Parish’s debut EP hath arrived in its physical form.
A great day indeed which did not arrive without some effort. This trio of pastoral Hard Rockers first caught thee Wizard’s ear on thee arrival of their initial demo which did please him immensely. Thusly with great haste he did usher thee three hairy headed heathens towards thee infamous Holy Mountain Studios buried deep in thee chasms beneath thee Crypt. Here they laid down thee four anthems, which were in turn smoothed into perfection for thee vinyl format by thee elegant engineer Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering. Now at last God’s Right Hand art available for your purchasing pleasure at
Dither thee not as thee quantity hath already begun to dwindle.
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#cryptofthewizard #metalmakesusstrong #parish #parishnewsletter #holymountainstudios #telegraphmastering
Thee Wizard hath permitted thee coffee drongos from @darkartscoffee to ask his emissary ‘pon this mortal plane, Charlie, some queries in regards to all Cryptical matters. Please enjoy it on YouTube and subscribe to thee channel too. Link in thee bio
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#cryptofthewizard #metalmakesusstrong #darkartscoffee #coffeedrongos
The new blistering album from Natur is now available for preorder! 150 black vinyl and 100 USA only red vinyl! Link in bio. For those across the pond, @cryptofthewizard has a yellow europe only version as well as black vinyl for ya.
