The final day of Download Festival 2024 is, judging by many comments online from attendees and those who wish they were going alike, “the most stacked” line up of any day on this years’ festival. Perhaps it is no coincidence that it was also the first part of the festival (RIP packages aside), to sell…
There’s a solid case to be made that Gojira are the heaviest band to ever headline venues like the Cardiff International Arena. Uncompromising and incomparable, the French quartet have earned their status as a band of this size through the consistent quality of their music and their reputation as a water-tight live band. As one…
When Alien Weaponry burst onto the scene with their debut album Tu in 2018, the world sat up and rightly took notice. Three young men from New Zealand, singing partly in English and partly in M?ori, who had created something fresh and very special. Praise followed from all corners of the metal world, and brought…
This latest edition of the Rock Sins’ playlist features the usual mix of new singles, new tracks from just released albums and EP’s and a few old favourites thrown in for good measure. We’re celebrating Wrestlemania weekend being the big WWE fans that we are by including Code Orange’s Let Me In – theme song…
A quick catch up on our Spotify Playlist for this week! We’ve got fantastic new tracks from the likes of Dream State, Alter Bridge and Ice Nine Kills. There’s also new offerings from Airbourne, Creature, Twin Atlantic, Simple Plan and State Champs (featuring We The Kings) and Jinjer. Then we’ve also got recent releases from…
Alien Weaponry are the most exciting thing to emerge in the world of heavy metal in ages. Back in June we caught up with two thirds of the band, drummer Henry de Jong and bassist Ethan Trembath. We spoke about playing Download, their whirlwind last twelve months, the decision to incorporate their M?ori culture into…
Its Middle Saturday at the 2019 Download Festival. The mixed weather continues, once again the entire field is covered with straw and of course there are the obligatory hangovers (and bangovers) but come 11am thousands of eager metal heads are present in the fields of Donington once again. They are present, ready in expectation of…
Sometimes, when a Download line up comes together, individual days stand out as something that could be truly special, even in the context of some of the legendary line ups that have gone before. The Saturday of 2006, when Metallica played Master Of Puppets in full, the infamous KoRnaoke following Jonathan Davis being taken ill…
It’s time for another update to our Spotify Playlist! Continuing our tradition of mixing in the best of the old and the new we’ve got a royal musical feast for you this week. New singles, or tracks from impending new albums from the likes of While She Sleeps and In Flames kick things off. Other…
We said with their first announcement that the Download Festival team certainly weren’t messing around with their plans for 2019. Having dropped all three headliners and another dozen plus bands in the first announcement, they’ve followed it up with another mammoth helping of bands for next year. There’s only one place we can start, and…
It’s that time of the year again when Bloodstock Open Air is almost upon us, so we’ve dedicated the return of our weekly spotify playlist to the UK’s favourite metal festival for the metal purists. With headliners Nightwish, Gojira and Judas Priest (who feature twice, because, let’s face it, who doesn’t love a double dose…
