Allow me, if you will, to get on my soapbox and shout about all the bloody brilliant music that has come out this year. If you’re willing to listen – not to me mind, to the music – you will find that 2019 has been one of the best years of the decade and as the 10s draw to their eventual but inevitable close, join me as we look at my top 20 (ish, I cheated) albums and five EPs of the year.
They’ve only been back a week and they’re headlining festivals! My Chemical Romance have been announced as headliners for the 2020 Download Festival Australia next March. My Chemical Romance top an impressive line up that also includes high spots on the bill for Jimmy Eat World, Deftones, In Flames, Testament, Ministry, Clutch, Carcass and Alestorm….
I often forget other people like Danko Jones too. They are one of the few bands that I can say I’ve loved since the first album and even fewer bands that I can say I’ve loved every album, so it’s a real treat to be able to see them rock the shit out of Brixton…
With Rock Sins having a substantial team on the ground at the 2017 Download Festival this year, we thought it might be a bit much to include all the bands from each day in one single mammoth post. So we’ve decided to split things up by stages, and here you can find all the events…
Words by Jamie Giberti & Ali Cooper. The Zippo Encore Stage is often the place at the Download Festival where “the metulz” are found. Download 2017 is no different, with an assortment of bands from Slayer to The Cavalera Brothers serving up everything from thrash to old school heavy f***ing metal. But it’s not just…
As far as festival announcements go, you don’t get much bigger than this. The 2017 Download Festival have only gone and added a whopping FORTY EIGHT bands to the line up for this years’ event. There are some huge bands in this announcement so it’s tough to know where to start, but a good place…
