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Download Festival 2026 Complete Main Festival Line Up, Announce Day Splits With New Additions Including Creeper and Conjurer

You want to know who is playing Download Festival 2026 and on what day?! All the answers are waiting for you here! If you want to know what time and the exact awful clashes you’re going to have to cope with, that information traditionally doesn’t come until much closer to festival time. Regardless of that,…

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Conjurer – Pathos

Released in March 2018, the debut album from Conjurer, Mire, was a real celebration in the UK metal scene as a new contender for the most exciting band around emerged. With four years of waiting to finally have its follow up arrive, it’s always felt like there was no rush for this band and that…

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Top 20 (ish) of 2019 – Sam Savigny

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.

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Pijn & Conjurer – Curse These Metal Hands

‘We’re called Curse These Metal Hands’ said Matt King’s Super Hans in an episode of Channel 4’s Peep Show when referring to his band completed by Robert Webb’s Jeremy Usbourne. Seemingly they are two halves of disparate nature; one, a placid and feckless layabout, the other, a typhoon of methamphetamines and hallucinogens. The same cannot…

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2000 Trees 2019 – Full Festival Review

2000 Trees. Recently dubbed by Kerrang the UK’s best mid-sized festival, and once you’ve read this review of 2000 Trees 2019, you might well be inclined to agree with them. Our man on the ground Sam Savigny presents extensive coverage of all three days of the festival, following his earlier highlight summaries of Thursday, Friday…

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ArcTanGent Festival 2019 – Festival Preview

Lucky number seven so they say. Now in its seventh year as Britain’s premiere summer home for all things mathcore, progressive, explorative, post-anything, whatever off kilter subsection of music you desire, ArcTanGent has not only lived up to the audience’s lofty expectations, but it’s fair to say shattered them into slack-jawed disbelief. Having hosted a…

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