With Summer now well behind us, for gig-goers who love nothing better than a festival, it’s always welcome to see Damnation Festival appearing on the gig calendar in November. Admittedly, the weather is a little chillier, but as thousands of fans descend on Bowlers Exhibition Centre in Manchester, the event, headlined by Suffolk gothic black metal powerhouse Cradle of Filth, was anything but cold. Pulling together a line-up spread across three stages, Damnation Festival 2024 delivered everything an extreme metal fan could want. Grindcore, experimental metal, death metal, black metal, metalcore, pretty much all bases were covered, and with Virginia thrashers Enforced blitzing through their midday set and the first pits of the day erupting on the floor, Damnation was off to a ferocious start...