Irish sludge/groove metal band Ten Ton Slug to bring the riffs to the Kalahari Desert!

This November Galway, Ireland based sludge/groove metal band Ten Ton Slug head south of the equator to perform at Vulture Thrust: Anger Management Fest 2025 in Maun, Botswana on November 1st and at a warm-up show in Ghanzi, Botswana on October 31st, 2025.

The event is organised by Tshomarelo Mosaka aka Vulture Thrust, member of the band Overthrust and prominent event organizer in the region. It runs from 6pm to 6am in Ko Sedibeng bar in The Power Plant complex in Maun and features metal bands from around the region alongside appearances from international bands.

This year’s event (which bears a different name than previous editions) features the following lineup:
Overthrust (Ghanzi, BW)
Ten Ton Slug (Ireland)
Skin Flint (Gaborone, BW)
Dreamslot (Maun, BW)
Remuda (Maun, BW)
Hilliker (South Africa)
Samehunduans (Maun, BW)
Ras Jesus (Ghanzi, BW)

The warm-up show takes place on Oct 31st in HillTalk Night Club in Ghanzi and runs from 10pm to 6am, featuring Overthrust, Ten Ton Slug, Obligado & Original Stars, and Ras Jesus.

This endeavor by Ten Ton Slug to play in Botswana has been made possible thanks to funding from Culture Ireland. The band’s performance at the events will most likely mark the first ever performance of a metal song in the Irish language in the country as the song Mallacht an tSloda from 2024’s ‘Colossal Oppressor’ LP is entirely in Irish.

Ten Ton Slug will warm up for the November African shows with two Irish gigs in the coming months – Dali in Cork on September 20th and the Roisin Dubh in Galway on October 11th:

Cork – Dali: (Sept 20th) w/ Coroza, Noosed:
Tickets: eventbrite.ie

Galway – Roisin Dubh (Oct 11th) w/ Diggeth, Genuflection, Noosed
Tickets: roisindubh.net

(As a side note: the currency of Botswana, and indeed the country’s motto, is ‘Pula’ which translates to ‘Rain’ – this pleases the Slug.)

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well