The sad news that Ol Drake has decided to leave Evile broke yesterday lunchtime (read statement here.) James offers his thoughts: I think we can all recognise the prominence, and importance of Evile to the British metal scene over the past six years. Part of the importance of Evile lies in their ability to draw a…
There’s roughly forty eight hours to go before the weekly chart show on BBC Radio One rattles off the UK’s top forty singles and albums for the week. This week, there is a very good chance of a very rare event occuring: A metal band going to number one in the UK album chart. In…
Sam, James and Fran were recently lucky enough to be sent to a field in Derby quite a bit larger than the field we sent James to a few weeks ago. Along the way they managed to watch some bands. Here’s part one of their review of Bloodstock Festival 2013. Opening up a festival main-stage…
Last night, we got word via Twitter that the one and only Limp Bizkit were to headline the 2014 Kerrang! Tour, and that this was the first of a few announcements to come regarding this tour. Well it seems the cat is out of the bag concerning some of Fred Durst and co’s touring partners…
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 the last few hours, it has been confirmed by the people at Kerrang! Magazine via Twitter that none other than the mighty Limp Bizkit will be headlining the 2014 UK Kerrang! Tour. Full dates for the tour will not be confirmed until next week’s issue of Kerrang goes on sale on the 28th of…
They’ve had another very successful year, with their largest headline tour to date, a prime support slot on Killswitch Engage’s first UK tour with Jesse Leach in a decade, hit the Summer festival circuit and most recently played with Lamb of God in Wolverhampton. They’re also shortly due to head to America as the opening…
Having started in the US last year, and with a couple of successful tours under their belt that have raised money for a good cause in the shape of the Sweet Relief Charity, the Death: Death To All tour is heading across the Atlantic to Europe in late 2013. Death, the “original death metal” band…
This coming weekend will see Bury Tomorrow’s biggest show of their careers thus far – opening up the main stage at the Reading and Leeds annual bank holiday festival double header. Ahead of those special shows, the band have released a new music video featuring footage from one of their career highlights so far. Having…
Following on from our announcement just a few moments ago that the video for Avenged Sevenfold’s new single Hail To The King is now available to view (watch it here), the band have now made the entire Hail To The King album available for streaming over at iTunes ahead of the albums’ full release next…
