Pontin’s will be alive with the sounds of thrash and power metal as the newest bands to be added to the bill for the fourth instalment of Hammerfest are led by Huddersfield’s own thrash titans Evile and Swedish perpetrators of power metal Dream Evil. Patrons of Hammerfest IV will also be able to sample the…
In celebration of the biggest headlining arena show of their career thus far, Alter Bridge have announced plans to record their show at Wembley Arena in London on November 29th (2011) for a new live DVD. The show will mark the biggest non-festival show the band has played to date in Europe (if not their…
Hailing from Switzerland, Yog will release their comeback album entitled Half The Sky on December 16th 2011 through Divison Records. Playing together for over a decade, Yog have toured across Europe in the last few years with such luminaries as Gojira, Knut and Today Is The Day. Yog’s musical style could be described as the…
One of post-metal’s most loved bands, Pelican are making their first trip to UK shores in over four years as they return for a headlining tour that will cover the length of England in April 2012. The tour will be Pelican’s first trip to the UK since 2008 and tickets are sure to go quickly!…
Arguably one of metal’s ultimate creative geniuses of the last fifteen years, the maestro that is Devin Townsend has announced the biggest solo headline show of his career thus far. Fresh from four nights in London at the Union Chapel that saw him play four different albums on four different evenings, Devin has announced a…
Steel Panther have released a video for The (Dirty) version of “If You Really Really Love Me” taken from their new Balls Out album. [youtube id=”HAvXHpLwJA4″ width=”600″ height=”350″]
[youtube id=”jCXBImSJc1I” width=”600″ height=”350″] Manchester based ALIASES have released live video footage filmed at their recent Euroblast Festival appearance, as they get ready to take their unique brand of progressive tech metal on the road for their first full UK tour in little over a weeks time – with Textures and The Ocean (sponsored by…
The worst kept secret from the last few days is out: Black Sabbath are back and they are the second headliners announced for the 10th edition of The Download Festival, Download 2012. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Gezer Butler and Bill Ward announced yesterday at a press conference in California that they would be embarking on…
Ok, so we got it half right. As widely speculated and rumoured across the Internet over the last day or so, Metallica are indeed returning to Castle Donington to headline the 2012 installment of The Download Festival, their third time headlining the festival in its ten years in its current format. Lars, Rob, Kirk and…
In Mind Blowing news it seems that Metallica and Lou Reed are set to be the first announced headliner of Download Festival 2012. The Internet speculation has gone into overdrive this afternoon, being fuelled by both Andy Copping (Download Festival booker) and Zane Lowe with some carefully phrased tweeting Maverick_AC: Just one big fuck off headliner…
