Less than a fortnight after granting us fifteen new bands including Bowling For Soup, Opeth and Black Label Society, Andy Copping and the team at Download HQ have done it again. This latest announcement contains no less than twenty three acts ranging right across the broad spectrum of rock and metal, so without any further…
It’s that time of year where we start getting the first festival announcements for 2014! Since our friends down under tend to kick off festival season with Soundwave Festival, it seems only right that we’ve been given the Soundwave 2014 line-up this morning, and to say it’s impressive is something of an understatement. After having…
In recent years, there has been fairly slim pickings in terms of traditional rock bands (and even less so in terms of metal bands) on the bill at Reading and Leeds Festivals. This years lineup had already shown some signs of reversing this with the likes of Green Day and Biffy Clyro as headliners, plus…
After two days of enduring pretty much everything that the British climate could throw at us short of lightning striking our campsite, the arrival of Friday at Donington Park made us grateful for two reasons. One the weather had relented ever so slightly, and two it was time for some music to hopefully help make…
As I sit down to write this, the second part of Rocksins’ Download 2012 preview, it’s currently brilliant sunshine out and temperatures in the mid to high twenties (somewhere around 80 degrees for those of us who only understand farenheight). We should all cross our fingers, get out our lucky charms and pray to whatever…
In addition to the news we brought you at the end of last week that Five Finger Death Punch have unfortunately had to pull out of Download’s tenth anniversary edition of the festival, during last week there were two sets of new band announcements that we thought we had better catch up on for those…
Considering they’re playing catch up to our friends from the Download Festival, who have come out all guns blazing in celebration of their tenth anniversary, many people expected Sonisphere Knebworth to pull a few rabbits out of the hat with their initial announcement and so it proved with KISS, Faith No More and Queen amongst…
Some huge metal news from our friends at Metal Hammer, the mighty Skindred are to headline a huge gig on Halloween night in Birmingham, and the best news of all its absolutely scott free! Joining Benji and the gang will be the deceptively heavy Rolo Tomassi, the legendary Therapy?, Scottish mob Yashin and rounding the…
When you attend a festival, everyone wants to see different acts. For those who are undecided, or who are going in with an entirely open schedule, this article has a few recommendations that might sway you and lead you to what could be the best performances of the weekend at the Download Festival 2011. Alter…
Although tonight was being looked forward to with great excitement, it didn’t start too well. My camera was left in the car and we were already in a rush, then we turn up at the venue and have the fiasco of finding out that the guestlist spot was non-existent, only to find out later that…
What happens when you combine one of the leading lights of shock rock / metal with a rabid sold out Brixton Academy? You get Rob Zombie‘s first London live show in sixteen years. Unfortunately for all of us Mr Zombie was a little late in taking the stage, and the hoards got a little restless….
Best album of the year: InMe – Herald Moth This album completely took me by surprise, and I think it’s the album that sticks out in my mind for being memorable this year. Having already been familiar with some original InMe tracks, I had been half expecting the same sort of stuff, but they most…
