We are just a few days away from the long awaited 20th anniversary edition of the Download Festival aka Download 2023! There are over 100 bands appearing across the four full days of the festival, plus the five bands in the boardie takeover on Wednesday kicking off the festival. Not to mention loads of the…
Fresh from winning Best International Artist at last weeks’ Heavy Music Awards at London’s Wembley Arena, US hard rock favourites Halestorm have announced a one off UK headline show at the same venue! Halestorm’s headline show at Wembley Arena (or the OVO Arena Wembley to give it it’s current full title) will be Halestorm’s biggest…
With news recently breaking of Five Finger Death Punch frontman Ivan Moody’s ongoing health issues following a recent hernia surgery, it has come as no surprise that FFDP will not be able to play Download Festival 2023. Fear not, the Download team have organised a more than capable replacement. None other than Download’s unofficial house…
With just over 6 weeks until the annual pilgrimage to the Hallowed Donington turf, the Download Festival 2023 team have two big bits of news; more bands, and the stage splits for this year’s festival! New additions include pop punk favourites State Champs, recently reformed emo/post-hardcore favourites Casey and Canadian hardcore punks and longtime friends…
Kerrang! Magazine is a worldwide rock, metal and heavy music institution. The British publication, which began life as a special spun out of Sounds magazine thanks to rock journalism legend Geoff Barton, quickly grew to be a bi-weekly and then weekly magazine for all things alternative, rock and metal music. It continued that way for…
As Everything Unfolds have had a quite fantastic two years since the release of their debut, Within Each Lies The Other. Festival slots (Download Pilot / Download Festival 2022), tours with Enter Shikari, Trash Boat, Holding Absence and others, special headline shows, extensive press coverage, huge streaming numbers. You name it, they’ve pretty much had…
A day with a new Skindred song is usually a good day, and today is no different! The Welsh ragga metal quartet have dropped their first new song of 2023, Set Fazers! Following on from their late 2022 ripper Gimme That Boom, Set Fazers is the next song to surface from their upcoming album Smile,…
With the countdown to new album Ultraviolet firmly underway, As Everything Unfolds have unleashed another mighty single. Flip Side, which is the fourth single to come from As Everything Unfolds’ upcoming second album, sees the High Wycombe quintet dial the heavy up to eleven and then some. Showcasing the variety in their sound, Flip Side…
The Download Festival has been for many UK rock and metal fans, the highlight of the year for almost two decades. This year, Download celebrates two full decades of gathering at the UK’s spiritual home of heavy music, Donington Park (or Castle Donington if you prefer). Download Festival 2023 is going to be like no…
The line up for Download Festival 2023 just got a hell of a lot bigger! Some huge names have been added to the already impressive set of bands playing Donington this Summer. With so many great bands joining the fun, it’s difficult to know where to start. So we’ll start with some favourites of ours…
We’re playing catch up with the big boys of the big four! Metallica recently dropped a brand new single, Screaming Suicide, and have more news concerning the release of their upcoming new album 72 Seasons. Their new single, Screaming Suicide, as one might gather from the title, covers a very serious subject, one the band thinks still…
Scandinavian metal favourites Arch Enemy are gearing up for an extensive period of touring. Ahead of the worldwide trek, they’ve unveiled a brand new music video for their song Poisoned Arrow, a track from last years’ hit album Deceivers. The video is from Arch Enemy’s trademark visual style; full of detail and elaborate creations as…
