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…
With the festival line up additions coming thick and fast with every passing week, it’s now the turn of Bloodstock Open Air to add to their 2014 roster. Things have been ticking over very well with new bands being added to Bloodstock every couple of weeks for quite awhile, and now the organisers have revealed…
Day 1 of 3 – Colchester – Tribal – Friday 15th November 2013 A lot of people only know Imperial Leisure as the insanely over active and addictive SKA Punk band based in London. I was given the chance to see more than the music, also to find out what they are like compared to what…
Having grown their already substantial fanbase through the smash hit success of their 2013 album Sempiternal which culminated in a sold out UK tour at the end of 2013 (complete with two nights at Brixton Academy), Sheffield’s favourite “love them or hate them” band Bring Me The Horizon have announced the biggest headline gig of…
The second studio album from Blitz Kids is here! The Good Youth, the long awaited follow up to the 2011 release, Vagrants & Vagabonds has definitely been worth the wait. This is a significant step forward for the band in all areas, from start to finish this is an upbeat, positive album, oozing quality that…
The beginning of 2014 is a very exciting time for London’s home grown shock metallers The Defiled. As they gear up for their first headline tour of the UK in quite some time, the band have released a very unique music video for the song “No Place Like Home”, which can be enjoyed below: The…
As iconic metal albums go, Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven is up there with the best. We’re not going to start a debate over the merits of Far Beyond Driven against some of Pantera’s other brilliant albums, but most fans would agree the twentieth anniversary of such an album is definitely worth celebrating, and that’s exactly…
On the swinging see-saw that is the “you have a go, we’ll have a go” of band announcements between Download and Sonisphere, this time around it’s the turn of Sonisphere Knebworth to add some more bands to their line up and they have done so in timely fashion with another ten bands joining their ranks…
Over the last decade, Within Temptation have undergone something of a transformation. When they first hit mainstream attention in the UK with the release of The Silent Force in 2004, they were very much a symphonic metal act, with a sound somewhat more geared to give them success in the European mainland than in the…
Australian prog metal group Periphery are gearing up for the release of their experimental E.P “Clear” next week, and have decided to stream the E.P in full online a few days ahead of the full release. This is one release where the music can definitely do the talking, so enjoy Clear in it’s entirety below:…
