Merry Christmas to us all from the powers that be at Download Festival HQ. Andy Copping and the team have just unveiled an amazing selection of bands for the 2017 Download Festival that will go a long way towards winning over some of the fans who weren’t already convinced by the first announcement, and make…
Industrial metal legends Ministry, led by the great Al Jourgensen, are returning to the UK in the Summer of 2016. News such as this by itself will be cause of celebration amongst Ministry’s legions of fans, but what makes the news even better is that they’re bringing Californian groove metal favourites Devildriver along for the…
First band on, Bleed from Within (9) set a bar so high that no one that follows can quite match them. As disgustingly tight as always, the heavy focus on latest album ‘Uprising’ serves them well. Good as the songs are though, Bleed’s real secret weapon lies in Scott Kennedy’s abilities as a frontman. Always…
Back out on the road properly for the first time since their horrific bus crash that took them out of their biggest US tour thus far with Devildriver and Trivium, Reading thrashers Sylosis are out to make up for lost time. Acting as main support to Devildriver on their first UK headline tour for the…
Having survived through the first two days of Bloodstock Open Air 2013 with relative success, Sam, James and Fran were ready for one last tilt through the grounds of Catton Hall surrounded by quality metal all day long. If you missed the first two days coverage you can check them out on the links below:…
It’s that time of year where we start getting the first festival announcements for 2014! Since our friends down under tend to kick off festival season with Soundwave Festival, it seems only right that we’ve been given the Soundwave 2014 line-up this morning, and to say it’s impressive is something of an understatement. After having…
Prior to their set on the co-headlining tour with Cannibal Corpse James was fortunate enough to be able to sit down with John Boecklin, drummer for Devildriver in London to have a chat. So hows the tour been going so far? Great, we’ve only got four shows left, and we’re on the final UK leg…
When the Devildriver and Cannibal Corpse co-headliner bill rolled into town we just had to go and check out what this great bill had to offer – The Black Dahlia Murder supporting just made this already great gig that bit more enticing. Hours of Penance (6) open up tonight’s bill of metal heavyweights – unfortunately…
Continuing the drip feed of new bands for Download 2013, the latest band to join the party at Donington Park are the recently revived nu metal act Coal Chamber. Frontman Dez Fafara, nowadays more famous for his other band Devildriver, has gotten back together with his old bandmates for a reunion. After a fair amount…
Hot off the presses, we have the latest news from the world of Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2013 with two new bands, and also some catch up on some rather important news from last week that we didn’t manage to publish. Last week, Bloodstock announced their second headliners for the 2013 edition of the festival…
Stand by to have your heads blown off! If the prospect of Devildriver teaming up with death metal legends Cannibal Corpse to wreak havoc across Europe next year wasn’t exciting enough already, they’ve just gone and upped the metal brutality to new levels. Newly announced to join Devildriver and Cannibal Corpse are Detroit, MI’s favourite…
Just before we kick on with the final part of our Download 2012 review, for anyone who hasn’t read our previous coverage, there’s a few links for you here: Part 1 (Friday review) Part 2 (Saturday review) The Matt Report (please click here) Fozzy picture special (please click here) So, as the Sunday of Download…
