Still filled with excitement from last nights knockout set from Trivium, we’re up bright and early on Saturday morning. Ready to make our first trip of the weekend over to the Sophie Lancaster stage. Where a light breakfast of progressive metalcore awaits… Despite drawing what’s usually a death slot at 10:30am, when most of the…
With the summer sun high in the sky. The grounds of Catton Hall in Derbyshire are awash with a sea of hastily etected tents and battle jacket sporting revellers that can only signal one thing. Bloodstock, the UK’s premiere festival of extreme music for extreme people, has returned once again! This years line-up promises something…
Like a vampire feasting on the blood of a fresh victim. Hellfest founders Ben Barbaud and Yoann Le Nevé must be revelling in the tears and reproaches of their detractors this week. After Machine Gun Kelly Babymetal, and Foo Fighters raised eyebrows for being “not metal enough” in years gone by. We were surprised to…
The third album by Sinsaenum has been a long time coming. While work had tentatively started in 2021, the sudden death of drummer Joey Jordison meant that progress on 2018’s Repulsion for Humanity swiftly ground to a halt for several years, and it was unknown if Sinsaenum would even continue without such a key figure…
The party may have already started for those lucky Wednesday 2000Trees 2025 attendees, but Thursday marks time for the festival to “Officially” open for everyone. The challenge now comes to unload the car, get your camp set up, and grab your wristband… all before the stellar line up kicks off at 10:30am (even earlier if…
Its once again the most wonderful time of the year. 2000Trees is back. Fast becoming the in place to be, the exclusive early entry Wednesday opens the festival gates to a select lucky few. Offering the chance to see a handful of bands, select the best spot to pitch your tent, and settle in before…
The dust has settled on another 2000trees festival, we are free from the 2000 wasps and 2000 degrees heat waves (OK slightly exaggeration). It’s been one week since the festival ended and we’re deeply missing the outrageous scenes of Upcote farm and counting down the days until were back, so what better time than to…
It seems unfathomable to think that Gwar has been around for 40 years. A band so weird, extreme and unmarketable, that especially in these times of people being offended by more and more it’s shocking to see them still here and still successful. Their unwavering commitment to their bit and their continued prescence in the…
When Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne announced the biggest of retirement parties in the shape of Back To The Beginning, the metal world knew it was going to be a momentous occasion. But truly, none of us, not even the Prince Of Darkness himself, could have fully prepared for what was to come on July…
Tonight’s show at Crystal Palace Park is Deftones biggest UK headline show to date, possibly their biggest headline show ever. 25,000 tickets sold out in record time, so you could say anticipation and expectations were high for this one. The show however was nearly derailed due an illness in the band’s camp a day prior,…