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Chris (Drop the Ego)
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Southend gig promoter (Drop the Ego)
Film nerd, noise lover
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Chris (Drop the Ego) @chrisdroptheego.bsky.social · Sep 24
Come be a part of noise history and catch US screamo legends CITY OF CATTERPILLAR in their first EVER UK show!

Death Goals, The Eurosuite and ADayCalledX are coming to join the party!

Saturday Nov 1st, The Fickle Pickle, Southend, Essex / 16+ show

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com
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Come be a part of noise history and catch US screamo legends CITY OF CATTERPILLAR in their first EVER UK show!

Death Goals, The Eurosuite and ADayCalledX are coming to join the party!

Saturday Nov 1st, The Fickle Pickle, Southend, Essex / 16+ show

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Wall of death fun in Southend courtesy of Essex legends Beyond Extinction (@beyext.bsky.social) at last weeks show! (Seriously, if you haven’t already, go listen to these guys.)

Next show Aug 21st w/ meth., Host Body, Cady, Outcries.
droptheego.bigcartel.com

#MetalSky #DeathMetalSky #DeathcoreSky
July 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Next up, Chicago noise metallers meth. are all set to fry your brain, Aug 21st, Moonraker, Southend.

Support from Host Body, Cady and Outcries!

This one will be LOUD

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com

#MetalSky #NoiseMetalSky #ScreamoSky #AltRockSky
July 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Death Metal on Sea in Southend, Essex tomorrow!

Featuring Molder (USA), Kontusion (USA), Beyond Extinction (Essex), Ominous Moon (Southend).

Tickets £17 advance (no booking fee), or £20 on the door!
droptheego.bigcartel.com
Ages 16+

Come bang your heads! 😎

#DeathMetalSky #MetalSky
July 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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New show alert!

Drop the Ego join forces with Dead Species to bring a crushing night of ferocious late summer deathcore to Southend, Essex,

Join To Obey A Tyrant, Veiled and more TBC sat Sept 6th at Moonraker

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com

#MetalSky #DeathcoreSky #DeathMetalSky
June 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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NEXT WEEK!

US death metal heavyweights MOLDER and KONTUSION crash land at Fickle Pickle, Southend alongside Essex titans BEYOND EXTINCTION and local speed metal heroes OMINOUS MOON.

Come bang your heads!

July 3rd / 16+
Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com

#MetalSky #DeathMetalSky #SpeedMetalSky
June 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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WHY NOT COME AND SEE US IN SOUTHEND NEXT JANUARY? COME ON, DON’T PRETEND YOU ALREADY HAVE PLANS.

GET TICKETS HERE: droptheego.bigcartel.com/product/dte-...
Poster for our show with Praetorian, Crowgod and Reverent Son at the Fickle Pickle in Southend on Saturday 24 Jan 2026
June 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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New show alert!

We now have at least one good reason to look forward to Jan with this absolute beast of a doom/sludge/thrash lineup featuring @warpstormer.bsky.social, @praetoriankvlt.bsky.social, Crowgod and Reverent Son!

£8 adv tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com

#MetalSky #StonerDoom #SludgeSky
June 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Next show! Hell is unleashed as black metal legends Impurity (Brasil), Goat Semen (Peru) and Ominous Moon (playing Waking the Dead in its entirety) descend on Southend, June 26th.

Impurity’s first ever UK show!

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com

#MetalSky #BlackMetalSky #SpeedMetalSky #LiveMusic
June 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Tomorrow!

Come see the loudest noise in Southend’s smallest venue!

Advanced tickets on sale until 4pm tomorrow: droptheego.bigcartel.com/product/dte-...

Come join the fun 👊

#HardcoreMetalSky #BlackMetSky #CrustMetalSky #HeavyMetalSky #HardcorePunkSky
June 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Essex hardcore metallers The Burial Code are all set to wreak havoc in Southend alongside Final Dose, Sewer Trench, Awkward Body. We hope you’re ready, because they ain’t messing around. 👊

Tickets (no booking fee!): droptheego.bigcartel.com

#HardcoreMetalSky #MetalSky #HardcorePunkSky
The Burial Code - Demo 2024
YouTube video by The Burial Code
youtu.be
May 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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If you’ve been sleeping on London’s deathcrust grindcore punk outfit SEWER TRENCH the past few years, then there’s no better time to right that wrong!

They’ll be tearing Southend apart NEXT FRIDAY at Peggy’s Music Bar.
Come join the chaos!

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com

#grindcoresky #MetalSky
SEWER TRENCH - Optimism [FULL ALBUM STREAM]
YouTube video by VERMIS RECORDS
youtu.be
May 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Next up, we’re back at Peggy’s, Southend for an insanely up close and personal encounter with FINAL DOSE, SEWER TRENCH, THE BURIAL CODE and AWKWARD BODY.

Expect black metal / hardcore / deathcrust goodness!

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com

#MetalSky #BlackMetalSky #CrustPunkSky #HardcoreMetalSky
May 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Still no words for last weekend. It really felt like a true embodiment of everything we imagined Drop the Ego being. Strangers having fun, making friends, discovering artists and seeing some of their favourites.
A true honour to spend time with @onelinedrawing.bsky.social and our amazing acts.
May 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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South American extreme black metal legends Impurity (Brazil) and Goat Semen (Peru) arrive in Southend June 26th for an up close and personal show. Expect a night of blasphemous fury in a way in which you’ll never see them again.

#BlackMetal/Sky #ExtremeMetalSky

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Power Failure absolutely killing it at Peggy’s Music Bar, Southend last night! Don’t sleep on Power Failure, these guys mean business! 🔥

powerfailurehc.bandcamp.com/album/hunger...

#HardcorePunkSky #HardcoreMetalSky
April 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Chicago experimental metallers METH arrive in Southend to deliver a sonic onslaught of the heaviest, loudest, most intense noise imaginable.

Support comes from the equally as noisy Host Body, Cady and Southend’s very own Outcries.

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com

#ScreamoSky #NoiseRocksky
April 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The insanely good GREAT FALLS getting friendly with the locals in Southend last week!

All sorts of good shows coming up! Don’t miss the next one!

droptheego.bigcartel.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Next show!
As part of the Greater Than Death UK 2025, INHUMAN NATURE take upstairs at The Alex, Southend by storm Friday May 16th. ⚔️

Support from OVERPOWER, OUT OF SPITE and MOB HANDED.

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com/product/dte-...

#HeavyMetalSky #ThrashMetalSky #HardcorePunkSky
April 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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No waaaaaaay this is actually on while I’m in Japan! 🥹

I better bring an extra case for merch…

#NieR
April 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Noise-on-Sea tonight in Southend!

Resurrect yourself form your Easter bank holiday hangovers and come catch USA noise bringers GLASSING and GREAT FALLS, tonight!

Support: In a House of Heartbeats.

Doors 7pm
16+
droptheego.bigcartel.com

Come on down! It’s what Jesus would have wanted 🐣
April 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Very cool interview with our fav local Southend metallers Ominous Moon.

You can catch them alongside Molder, Kontusion, Beyond Extinction July 3rd at The Fickle Pickle Southend!

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com

#blackmetalsky #speedmetalsky #heavymetalsky
Interview with OMINOUS MOON - FILTHY DOGS OF METAL
www.filthydogsofmetal.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Sometimes you just know the exact movie you’re in the mood for…

#HorrorFilmSky #FilmSky
April 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Set your alarms for April 16th

One of our favourite bands we’ve had in Southend. 🔥 🔥 🔥
burnermetal.bsky.social BURNER @burnermetal.bsky.social · Apr 13
BLOOD ON MY HANDS

16.04.25

Church Road Records
📽️ - @stephxvisuals

#metalsky #churchroadrecords #deathmetal #hardcore #burner
April 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Seattle noise rockers GREAT FALLS will be bringing their aggressive sonic assault of the senses to Southend next Sunday.
Washington metallers GLASSING and Southend’s own In A House of Heartbeats also along for the ride!

Tickets: droptheego.bigcartel.com

greatfalls.bandcamp.com/album/object...
Objects Without Pain, by Great Falls
8 track album
greatfalls.bandcamp.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM