Ingested & Psycroptic in Newcastle upon Tyne

Ingested are a British brutal death metal band formed in Manchester in 2006. Their music is built around low-tuned riffs, guttural vocals and slam passages, documented on albums including Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering, The Level Above Human, Where Only Gods May Tread and Ashes Lie Still. In 2023, Ingested joined Lorna Shore’s Pain Remains European tour alongside Rivers of Nihil and Distant. The band followed in 2024 with a North American headline tour for The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams, supported by Devourment, Extermination Dismemberment and Organectomy.

Psycroptic is an Australian technical death metal band formed in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1999 by brothers Joe and Dave Haley. The band developed its tightly articulated, riff-heavy sound on The Isle of Disenchantment and The Scepter of the Ancients, then carried it through albums including Ob(Servant), The Inherited Repression and Divine Council. In 2008, Psycroptic joined the North American Summer Slaughter Tour, whose lineup also included The Black Dahlia Murder, Kataklysm and Vader. The band later performed at major European metal festivals including Wacken Open Air in Germany and Bloodstock Open Air in the UK.